When it comes to adventure games I try to back as many as I possibly can on Kickstarter. Of course, there have been way too many over the past four years and change that I only managed to get on board about 134 of them,…
Remember the 80’s? Remember technicolor hairbands and punk rock? Remember the ninjas that invaded New York and kidnapped all those random people? No? Well, developer ShadowTeam remembers, and they’re trying to send us back to the arcade side-scroller era with Shadow Gangs. Borrowing the style…
With recent news regarding Bloodstained and Mighty No. 9, particularly that coming from E3, I wanted to do something a little bit different this time with my Kickstarter Primer videos. Namely, something that I call the “David Vs. Goliath” syndrome. Basically this is just a…
The gaming industry has certainly been shaken up by the crowdfunding concept. Rather than being the passive audience of the highly secretive world of the big games manufacturers, gaming fans are now being given the chance to shape their own entertainment futures by kickstarting some…
According to a recent update by developer SparkWare, FRAMED will be cancelled if the team cannot find a writer. The loss of a few key team members is being credited for this recent debacle, but after reviewing the multitude of comments and campaigns that were…
I will admit that it gets frustrating seeing projects that I’ve backed take forever to get made and it’s even more frustrating when we get little, if anything, to see for months if at all. In the case of Reincarnation: The Root of All Evil these…
When it comes to visual novels, you’ve got topics that run the gamut from sexy to serious to funny to downright weird. But there is a fine line between a cool looking game and being downright offensive. In the case of Go! Go! Democratic People’s Republic…
The Lunar Colony development team recently announced that they are terminating work on their project. I poked my head into the comments with that same morbid curiosity of a disaster tourist. Usually, when a Kickstarter can’t deliver, backers tend to become a pack of bloodthirsty keyboard…
Acro Storm is a master class in how not to create a crowdfunding campaign. The game reminds me of Jet Moto meets Wipeout or F-Zero and appears to have a ton of potential. However, I don’t believe this specific campaign will end up being funded…
Read Only Memories has been out for a while now (you can read our previous coverage if you want) but up until now it was an unfinished game. With the “director’s cut” we’re treated to not just some new content but also to finally being…
Since they raised $2,032,434 on Kickstarter for Divinity: Original Sin 2 in September 2015, Larian Studios has been hard at work on the sequel to the original Divinity Sin, hoping to eclipse the success of the game’s predecessor. Not much has been posted in the…
With LGBT representation in media slowly growing, it’s exciting to see more diverse characters come into their own. The visual novel community seems to be especially ripe with intriguing new ideas. Engines like Ren’Py and Novelty remove the barriers to entry that would often omit inclusive stories. I recently had…
Once upon a time the Oculus Rift CV1 was meant to ship to both Kickstarter backers and pre-orderers at the very end of March. Unfortunately, all manner of issues (delays in manufacturing being the key factor) ensured that the vast majority of folks did not receive their…
If the trailer for Mongrel’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign is anything to go on then this will be the first metroidvania style game I have seen that employs a more relaxed vibe over its combat and exploration. The visuals are seemingly influenced by modern animation greats…
Our weekly dose of hot takes, occasionally well formed opinions, and fevered outbursts is back; yup, it’s the Question of the Week! Last week Comcept’s much-anticipated Mega Man inspired platformer Mighty No. 9 was release, and needless to say things didn’t go well. That leads us to our question :…
There aren’t enough words that could describe how stoked I am for Ikenfell. It has everything going for it and I honestly can’t find anything negative to say based on its kickstarter campaign. Imagine taking a strategy RPG, like Fire Emblem, and throwing it in…
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