Stephanie Smith
Stephanie Smith is an English Teacher in Mianyang China with a passion for gaming. Stephanie is dedicated to Edutainment and wants to bring video games into the classroom and help other teachers do the same. She's a little too overly enthusiastic about collecting Steam badges and fairly grumpy if she doesn't get her daily dose of Markiplier and Game Grumps.
Mineral Cities Taking Its Kickstarter Backers Patience For Granite?
When I saw Mineral Cities' latest update I expected its backers to be baying for blood. Just looking at the fact the game was...
Kickstarter Announces Team Of Bounty Hunters to Track Down Developer Scammers
As a serial backer on Kickstarter, I know the platform has some flaws as well as anyone. One of those flaws is its unregulated...
PewDiePie Apologizes To Bear Gaming Groups Over Bear Simulator Debacle
Bear Simulator is a highly-rated Kickstarter-funded FPB (First Person Bear) game created to bring bears into the gaming industry. As we all know, bears...
I Don’t Give A Fig About Investing In Video Games
Fig's latest update is an example of something I call 'being economical with the truth'. To be clear, I hadn't heard much about Fig...
Failure Lost The Battle, Will It Win The War?
I am genuinely sad that Failure, the cyber-futuristic strategy game canceled its Kickstarter campaign. I was very excited to back this one and I...
Umbra-lievable! Backers Get Extra Rewards For Wolcen, And Are Upset About...
Open-World Action-RPG game Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem (Formerly Umbra) is set to release on Early Access on March 24th. Wolcen is also well on target...
To Light: Ex Umbra Needs Jesus… Or Saint Jude
To Light: Ex Umbra is about halfway through its Kickstarter funding period and nearly halfway funded. However, I doubt that To Light: Ex Umbra...
Dark Quest 2 Looks Like A Great Tabletop / CRPG Hybrid
The sequel to Dark Quest is now on Kickstarter. The previous game sold nearly 40,000 copies across multiple platforms including the PS Vita and...
Dragon Quest Meets Minecraft in Ludoria
I don't think I've ever backed a project faster than I did Ludoria. Ludoria is a sandbox game that takes a blocky procedurally-generated world...
Dr McNinja Devs Seek More Funding, Kickstarter Backers Attack
We all know Kickstarter is a way to help people try to create something. Whenever you back a project you are told in plain...
Failure, A Beautiful Cyberpunk Genre Mashup
A new promising looking Kickstarter launched recently called Failure, which I really hope it isn't. From the moment I clapped my eyes on the...
Powerstone Inspired Brawler Combat Core Keeps Getting Better
The developers of Combat Core released another update after nearly three months of silence. However, this brief update shows a bit of promise with...
Post Apocalyptic Adventure The Seed Almost Ready To Shoot
The Seed really has had a rough time during the course of its development. It was due out in 2014 but didn't hit that...
Does The Beastmaster and Prince Kickstarter Have What It Takes?
Beastmaster And Prince (猛獣使いと王子様) is a famous Otome visual novel released in Japan back in 2010. It gained quite the fan following over there...
Blackwake’s ‘No-Update’ Sets The Example For All Updates
I think Blackwake is a great example of a Kickstarter done right. Blackwake's developers are skipping this month's update as they baton down the...
Does Relapse Rise Above The Glut of Kickstarter Horror Games?
I think Relapse is a hilarious name for a horror game in an asylum, but the Relapse Kickstarter itself looks far from comedy gold,...