Neowin News Feed for: Kickstarter

Space Monkey Cloud Storage Kickstarter campaign reaches goal in only a few hours

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:57:33 +0100

The Space Monkey Kickstarter campaign has reached its goal in only a few hours. Space Monkey offers large ammounts of cheap cloud storage via a small external device that's attached to your network. Read more...

Windows-Mac port of Linux-based OpenShot Video Editor confirmed

John Callaham — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:39:23 +0100

A Kickstarter campaign to fund a Windows and Mac port of the Linux-based OpenShot Video Editor has been successful and developer OpenShot Studios will launch a beta version at the end of 2013. Read more...

Torment: Tides of Numenera raises over $4.1 million on Kickstarter

John Callaham — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:46:34 +0100

The Kickstarter campaign to fund Torment: Tides of Numenera, a spiritual sequel to the RPG Planescape: Torment, has now concluded with the project raising over $4.1 million. Read more...

New screenshots and update revealed for VLC Windows 8 app

John Callaham — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:32:17 +0100

The VideoLAN team working on the Windows 8 port has posted up a development update on its Kickstarter web page, along with new screenshots showing off the upcoming media player. Read more...

$99 Ouya game console launches in retail stores June 4th

John Callaham — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:45:47 +0000

The $99 Ouya game console will go on sale in retail stores on June 4th, just over two months after the Android-based console starts shipping to its early Kickstarter backers. Read more...

Third party Surface Pro case seeks Kickstarter funding

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:00:43 +0000

A new Kickstarter campaign has begun to fund development of ProKASE, a third party case for Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet that will add two USB ports and two microSD card readers. Read more...

Beta for Windows 8 VLC app to be sent to Kickstarter backers this month

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:30:55 +0000

The VideoLAN team plan to release a beta of their Windows 8 version of their popular media player app to its Kickstarter backers sometime later in March, according to a new statement sent to Neowin. Read more...

Richard Garroitt's Shroud of the Avatar announced

John Callaham — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:31:57 +0000

Richard Garriott, the man who created the Ultima game franchise, is returning to his roots for his latest game, the fantasy RPG Shroud of the Avatar, which has launched a Kickstarter campaign. Read more...

Kickstarter drive for Planescape: Torment successor funded in just six hours

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:26:58 +0000

Torment: Tides of Numenera, inXile Entertainment's spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment, launched its Kickstarter campaign and reached its $900,000 funding goal in just six hours. Read more...

Kickstarter funded OUYA game console ships to backers March 28th

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:00:25 +0000

OUYA, the Android-based game console that raised over $8.6 million in a Kickstarter campaign, has announced that the first consoles will ship to those first backers on March 28th. Read more...

Cool Kickstarter project to create a 3D printing pen

Christopher White — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:21:56 +0000

A small toy company called Wobbleworks just created a Kickstarter project for what they claim is the world's first 3D printing pen. The unique project blew past its $30,000 goal. Read more...

Gas Powered Games acquired by Wargaming.net

John Callaham — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:58:47 +0000

Developer Gas Powered Games has been acquired by World of Tanks developer Wargaming.net, a few days after Gas Powered cancelled its Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming game Wildman. Read more...

Gas Powered Games cancels Wildman Kickstarter plans

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:59:10 +0000

Developer Gas Powered Games has cancelled its Kickstarter fund raising campaign for its RTS-RPG Wildman, stating that it will work on other ways to keep the developer going. Read more...

Kickstarter effort for funding Björk Windows 8 app cancelled

John Callaham — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:58:19 +0000

The Kickstarter campaign to fund a Windows 8 and Android version of Biophilia, a music app from the mind of singer Björk, has been halted well before the scheduled end of the campaign. Read more...

We are not kidding - Björk is making a Windows 8 app

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:13:22 +0000

Eccentric musician Björk is leading the charge to use the Kickstarter site to raise funds for porting her Biophilia educational app to Windows 8 as well as Android. Read more...

Project Awakened on Kickstarter: "Craft the videogame character of your dreams"

John Callaham — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:35:45 +0000

Phosphor Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Project Awakened, an upcoming Unreal Engine 4 PC game that promises the ability to "craft the videogame character of your dreams." Read more...

An awesome PC gaming-workstation desk seeks Kickstarter funding

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:33:14 +0000

A company called Gamers Paradise is seeking funding on Kickstarter to launch a gaming PC-workstation desks with features like USB ports, power outlets, monitor and HDMI ports and more. Read more...

Gas Powered Games debates continuing Kickstarter effort after mass layoffs

John Callaham — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:52:36 +0000

Chris Taylor, the head of Gas Powered Games, says he is now debating whether or not to continue its Kickstarter campaign for Wildman after the company had mass layoffs on Friday. Read more...

Elite: Dangerous exceeds Kickstarter goal

John Callaham — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:51:36 +0000

The Kickstarter fund raising campaign for Elite: Dangerous, the revival of the classic space trading series Elite, has been completed and has exceeds its ambitious goal of £1,250,000. Read more...

PC gaming's biggest winner and loser of 2012

John Callaham — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:11:36 +0000

We pick the pick the biggest winner and loser in the PC game industry in 2012, from the rise of the Kickstarter site as a way to fund games to OnLive's financial troubles. Read more...