The Coleco Chameleon was advertised as a new video game console that would play cartridge-based games (both new homebrew releases and existing retro products). Devised in large part by Mike Kennedy, the name behind both RETRO Magazine and GameGavel.com, it seemed like a project poised…
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Marcus is a fellow with a love for video games, horror, and Japanese food. When he’s not writing about games for a multitude of sites, he’s usually still playing one. Writing about video games is something he hopes to continue doing for many years to come.
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Did you notice that we at Cliqist finally went forward with a plan that has been in the works for a long while now? After much consideration, we finally shared a massive Excel spreadsheet of Kickstarter video game data which is free for anybody and…
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When Fig launched, the founders had a fairly specific plan in mind. They felt that the biggest problems with Kickstarter and Indiegogo were a lack of curation and too much competition, so they ensured Fig would only focus on one game (backed by their entire board)…
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The Into the Stars Kickstarter campaign was absolutely full of promise. Space strategy/simulation titles generally seem to command a lot of interest on the crowdfunding platform. Its initial launch onto Steam Early Access netted the title a lot of negative feedback, but things have been…
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Sekai Project is a visual novel publisher that have not been around for all that long but have quickly become the go to company for many English-speaking fans. As many are aware, they put a lot of focus on running Kickstarter campaigns for their visual…
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Root Double- Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition is more than just a visual novel with an excessively complex name. It is also the 10th visual novel Kickstarter run by Sekai Project, and the 9th successful one for them. With this in mind, it…
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Can you believe it? 2015 is over, and with it, I have managed to gather data on Kickstarter video game campaigns for almost the entirety of the year. If you’ve been reading these analyses posts since the very start, then you’ll know that for whatever…
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Every month Kickstarter is full of wild successes, and depressing failures. While some are always going to have that massive fan push behind them to see hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding others barely make it to the finish line. Due to the nature…
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Kickstarter is still the best means for most game developers out there to receive crowdfunding support for their projects. As such, we see tons of games come in each and every month looking for their shot at success. When it comes down to it, though,…
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Oh, Oculus Rift, what a ride you’ve brought gamers on these past few years. Many of us first heard of this strange new virtual reality device when startup company Oculus launched a Kickstarter campaign back in 2012. The concept of VR had certainly been tried…
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When it comes to visual novels, strange titles are par for the course. Root Double- Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition is one such game with weird name but intriguing storyline. Played from two perspectives, players will have to both discover the truth behind…
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GX3 is one heck of an event filled with panels every single hour. Still, there’s much more in store for attendees then those panels. You see, there’s also an exhibit hall filled with items to buy and even new and upcoming games to try out!…
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Podcast X Zone is (thus far) an annual staple of the GX convention. For the past three years, a variety of indie podcasters have gotten together and created quite a fun look behind the microphone for curious fans and podcast creators as well. This year’s…
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I’ll admit right now, the announcement of Psychonauts 2 at The Game Awards 2015 was a shock to me. What wasn’t a shock was that it would be coming to fruition thanks in part to crowdfunding. The minute it was announced, my immediate reaction was…
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If things had turned out differently, Cliqist could have been a site focused primarily on Indiegogo projects. Why? Indiegogo was the first of the current popular crowdfunding sites out there available to consumers. It launched in January 2008 while Kickstarter did not appear until over…
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I love data. I’ve known this for quite a long time. Back when I first made the conscious decision to start collecting video games, for example, my first thought was not about where to get the best deals but how to keep track of everything….