Kickstarter related news and articles

The Wonderful 101: Remastered’s Kickstarter campaign has come to a close with a little over $2.2 million.

The Kickstarter campaign for Xenonauts 2 has been fully funded in under 12 hours. The project launched yesterday with the goal of raising £50,000.

Iron Harvest, from King Art Games, has become the most successful video game project on Kickstarter in almost an entire year. The game raised around $1.3 million in the five weeks its project was open for. The last game to raise more funding than this was Ashes of Creation, which raised $3.2 million in May last year.

According to statistics published by Kickstarter, 10,233 video and board game projects had been funded successfully through Kickstarter as of April 3 2017.

Obsidian Entertainment’s latest crowdfunding project, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, succeeded in achieving the full funding of $1,100,000 in just 24 hours.

Despite the recent dissolution Lionhead, the Fable franchise is still alive as the firm’s successor announced a Fable-themed collectible card game.

Following on from the recent release of the third game in the series, Dark Souls is set to make an entrance into the world of tabletop board games.

The PC version of the upcoming realistic mediaeval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been delayed beyond summer 2016 and will now be planned to release alongside the game’s console editions.

Superhot, one of the most successful fan-backed games has had its release dated scheduled.

In another rousing success for the crowdfunding platform, Star Citizen’s fund raising project has hit the stratospheric target of $100 million.