Kickstarter

When Double Fine — the studio behind the cult hit Psychonauts — went to Kickstarter in February of last year asking for $400,000 to make a point-and-click adventure game, backers responded with overwhelming approval and a total pledge of over $3 million . At the time, the company gave no details on...

Reaches funding of almost $35,000

I’ve got what most people refer to as a black thumb. I can’t grow anything but weeds. I’m so bad with plants, I once killed a cactus. It’s really hard to kill a cactus. If you’re like me and don’t have a good history with growing things, the thought of having your own fresh herb garden for the...

Just over a year after the videogame Double Fine Adventure set records on Kickstarter , talk about the crowdfunding leader is in the air at GDC, the Game Developers Conference being held this week in San Francisco. On the conference’s first day, ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux laid out “real numbers...

Another established hardware startup is turning to Kickstarter to help fund its next wares. This time it’s the turn of Click & Grow , maker of the smart garden that lets you grow a plant indoors with little or no intervention. After selling over 50,000 units of its first device, the Palo Alto, U.S....

Startups hoping to leverage Kickstarter's success were everywhere during the semi-annual graduation showcase, looking to get in on the crowdfunding action. [Read more]

After the initial success of the Kickstarter campaign for a movie based on the TV show Veronica Mars (with a goal of $2 million, it has currently raised $3.9 million, and there are still 17 days to go), I had a chance to interview the show’s creator Rob Thomas and his agent Julien Thuan about...

I first saw Drifter, developer Colin Walsh's great space trading simulation, at last year's GDC. Back then, the game was a great idea, though Walsh's Celsius Game Studios had plenty of work to do. In the year in between, however, Walsh carried out a successful Kickstarter , picking up over $80,000...

We’ve been hearing a lot about motion tracking as of late, the Leap Motion being the most popular device that is making its way to the public. However, a new mechanism is looking to gain some ground and has popped up on Kickstarter. The DUO 3D sensor claims to be the “world’s first and only DIY 3D...

The conspiracy theories swirling around a seemingly benign crowdfunding campaign turned into a tornado over the weekend. Crave's Eric Mack investigates. [Read more]