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 ...
#1reasonwhy: the hashtag that exposed games industry sexism
on 11.28.12
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 to talk about precisely why that ...
Xbox creator: It’s hard for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to ignore the Apple experience
on 11.27.12
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 ...
Meet Philips Hue: The smart LED light bulb exclusively hitting Apple Stores on October 30
on 10.29.12
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 ...
Fully Funded Kickstarter Game Goes Belly Up – ‘Haunts: The Manse Macabre’ Is Out Of Money As Programmers Call It Quits
on 10.19.12
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 on the site looks like it may have ...
Irony at its finest: Kickstarter project explaining how to fund Kickstarter projects fails
on 10.1.12
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 mere 103 backers ...
Gambitious is Crowdfunding for Gamers Only
on 9.25.12
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 ...
Kickstarter to Users: We’re Not a Store
on 9.21.12
Kickstarter is cracking down on how gadget creators look for funding on the site by enforcing new rules that address the common risks and challenges that come with their projects. The crowd-funding site posted a message to its blog on Friday that prohibits product renderings and simulations, and requires creators to ...
3-D Printing Goes Prehistoric with a Kickstarted Dinosaur
on 9.20.12
Paleoartist Tyler Keillor has long specialized in sculpting realistic clay dinosaur heads for museums and universities, but for his next project — an exacting replica of a full Dryptosaurs built entirely as a 3-D digital object — Kiellor needed a little help from the crowd. He set up a modest Kickstarter campaign to ...
Wirelessly Charge Your iPhone With This Smart Purse
on 9.17.12
There’s nothing worse than watching your mobile device’s battery slowly slip away, and who wants to lug around a phone charger? Those built-in battery cases are typically clunky and heavy too. A new Kickstarter project aims to take frustration out of the equation for female iPhone users thanks to a series of stylish ...
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