Kickstarter

The holiday season approaches, and it is time to whip out your wallet and spend your year’s savings on the people in your life who grudgingly tolerate you so long as you keep them plied with new toys. This year, we’ve funded a heap of projects on sites like Kickstarter, and we’ve seen somewhat fewer Continue Reading →

Following news that Apple refused to allow POP – a successfully-funded Kickstarter project – to simultaneously use its Lightning connector and 30-pin connector in its portable charging station, Apple has now backtracked, adjusting its guidelines to allow the two to be integrated into one device. According to CNET, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr blamed “technical issues Continue Reading →

We could fill many columns with extensive analysis on the assortment of memorable developments from the TV scene this year, but let’s boil it down to just one over what you should take away from 2012. The takeaways below, for sure, come from one vantage point, and you’re welcome to accept them, or create your Continue Reading →

Kickstarter is virtually synonymous with crowdfunding, and it’s not hard to see why. Since the platform launched in 2009, Kickstarter has raised $368 million for projects that met or passed their goals and has helped launch nearly 80,000 projects in total. In fact, one month after launching in the U.K., Kickstarter had already generated more Continue Reading →

The treatment of women in and by the video games industry has been a hot topic for most of the year – and for the last couple of days in particular. Hot on the heels of an Edge feature bemoaning and exploring the gender disparity in the video game industry, yesterday, women took to Twitter Continue Reading →

Ed Fries, co-creator of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console, believes it is harder for gaming platform makers Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to ignore the gaming and app experience that Apple has created, highlighting the iPhone and iPad maker’s creation of a platform that is easy to develop for and affordable for gamers. In an interview with Continue Reading →

Philips has set its sights on disrupting the home automation market, launching its new “Hue” smart light bulbs, which are to be sold exclusively in Apple Stores worldwide from October 30. The electronics giant becomes the latest company to launch a web-enabled LED light bulb, capable of interacting with smartphones and tablets to automate lighting Continue Reading →

Kickstarter can be a wonderful way to fund a video game, but as I’ve said for some time now, the rules are pretty vague. Only one thing is certain when you put your money into a Kickstarter project: there’s no way to know whether you’ll get what you pay for. Now one indie game funded Continue Reading →

Let’s say you wrote a book about crowdfunding. How would you fund it? Chance are you would use your expertise in crowdfunding to crowdfund it. You would be very successful in doing so, right? Wrong. The book “Crowdfunding: A Guide to What Works and Why” was put up on Kickstarter with a $35,000 goal. A Continue Reading →

A new crowdfunding platform that focuses solely on video games launched Tuesday morning, and offers gamers a chance to invest in titles vetted by a team of industry experts. Gambitious functions like a donation-based platform, such as Kickstarter. It allows people living in the European Union and eventually the U.S. to invest equity into games, Continue Reading →