Back in 2014, Sam Dyer launched a visual companion book for the Commodore 64, an old gaming PC that was huge in Britain. It was successfully funded, and met with huge praise according to the developer. Again Dyer used Kickstarter to launch his second book,…
Josh Griffiths
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Josh Griffiths is a writer and amateur historian. He has a passion for 3D platformers, narrative-driven games, and books. Josh is also Cliqist’s video producer. He’s currently working on his first novel, and will be doing so on and off for the next decade.
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It took a little longer than anticipated perhaps, but Psychonauts 2 has met its funding goal. With over $3,313,000 raised and five days to go, Double Fine has secured the funds it needs to make the sequel to their original beloved cult hit. Given some…
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Three years after its massively successful Kickstarter campaign, and two years after its purchase by Facebook, we finally know how much the Oculus Rift will cost. Facebook opened up pre-orders today for the VR headset, and the price isn’t cheap. The “next big thing” in…
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It’s hard to believe we last covered Parkitect back in 2014, with an interview with the developers. That’s now two years ago, kind of. Since then, the spiritual successor to Rollercoast Tycoon 2 has grown up, and is out exploring the world. For starters, the…
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a Kickstarter campaign raises a bunch of money, they do a good job releasing updates, then go silent for a year or so before mysteriously coming back and announcing a slew of changes. If you said something to…
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Have you ever dreamed of playing a Tim Burton game by way of MC Escher in a zero gravity environment? No? Oh, well, okay then. You kind of ruined this. For those of you that answered yes, DARQ is here on Indiegogo to give you…
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It feels like in my short time writing here, all I’ve covered is failed Kickstarter campaigns. Thankfully, what’s going on with Steel Assault by developer Sri Kankanahalli and company is different. As a holiday gift to backers, the team published their first update since July,…
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This is the Police, an interesting role-playing/strategy game, will finally be releasing early 2016. In a recent update, the team promised the game will be released sometime in “the first half of 2016,” and that we’ll be able to play the game even earlier in…
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“I never really know what to say when stuff like this happens, but I feel an obligation to be completely transparent with our backers.” Eight times out of ten, a Kickstarter update that begins with such a quote usually ends up with the developers thanking…
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After years of delay and months of silence (with the exception of a PS4 release announcement) Camouflaj Studios has finally revealed the release for Episode 4 of their stealthy crowdfunded hit Republique. You can expect to play the penultimate episode, titled God’s Acre, December 17th….
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Cult: Awakening of the Old Ones first launched on Kickstarter on June 5, 2012. It promised a release by October that year, already an ambitious schedule. It’s been over three years and that promised release date is little more a fuzzy memory, if that, than…
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For those of you who have been following Hearts Under Blades, the team behind it has some bad news for you. Developer Leading Scientists Games posted an update earlier in the week confirming the delay of Chapter 1 into next year. Nearly everyone on the…
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This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill! During the Game Awards 2015, Tim Schafer took to the stage to announce Psychonauts 2, coming not to Kickstarter, but Fig. Fig is a brand new crowdfunding website exclusively for games, with a…
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