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Speaking of more cRPGs, don't let your post-Numenera rush let you miss this: Lord British is kickstarting Shroud of the Avatar

Project: Awakened will seek funding with the added promise of making backers "partial owners"

Age of Empires 2 HD Re-release coming to Steam

Two ways a successful Kickstarter could fail for inXile: 1.) Financial difficulties drive the company under before the game is complete. 2.) The game doesn't sell enough to cover any out-of-pocket expenses the company incurs.

I think the basic assumption with the "Torment is a crutch" posters is that they're assuming the game won't be good; it'll spend too much time trying to show how it's just like Torment that it'll completely fail to actually stand on its own or live up to the name. In other words, they expect the game to fail from the moment they use the name "Torment", and would rather the name not be sullied by a failure.

Polygon gives a few facts about the campaign Torment has dethroned Ouya as the fastest project to hit $1 million Assuming minimum pledges, roughly 9% of the funds came from top backers when the campaign reached the target Notch has confirmed to be a $10k donor "because awesome"

Race the Sun reaches goal in the nick of time, thanks to last-minute surge --- Also, just decided to (finally) back Dreamfall - and luckily, somebody had just left the $20 early bird spot for a higher level.

Didn't the last series start toying with the whole Nibuntu apocalypse thingy? --- A Bird Story announced - likely to act as bridge between To The Moon and the next full piece

Co-founder of EA founds own studio, looking to crowd-fund first game

About to break $800k. My official prediction is the first update will just be a 3 minute video of their team staring at the counter, gob-smacked.

Yeah, I never played it either, but bought it off GOG and really need to play it. Then again, I have a lot of games I really need to play... Also, went back, looked at levels, cursed, managed my pledge, and upgraded to $80; didn't pledge for Wasteland 2, so might as well get a copy by upping my pledge by $5. Also, just broke $700k

$75 for me, all-digital tier. I'm not a big guy on feelies, and I figure one less physical copy produced is a bit more money for the project. More than 10,000 backers already.

Hence, "make of that what you will". They're not going to make it a rule that all games must be squares, but that doesn't mean they won't make them squares anyways.

I think the idea is they're developing the infrastructure to allow any game to implement micro-transactions, but they're not going to enforce a rule saying they must be implemented in every game. So, every game will be a rectangle, but not necessairly a square.

Is it still coming out? release date? On the first page of this forum, in the first five topics. Short answer: It is coming out, but no release date has been set. Until Ubisoft speaks, the release date remains "when it's ready".

One week later, EA exec says not all EA games will have micro-transactions Make of that what you will.

A quarter of their goal in one hour. Yeah, there might be a few people who liked PS:T...

Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter is live and round-house kicking $155k atm, and rising fast.

Kickstarter is live And yeah, they just broke $140k in the first half hour.

Technically, the VFX studios often work more than the actors. They can work similar schedules to a game develoepr, putting in 60-80 hour weeks during an active project. Little bit of info on why VFX in America is struggling. As for me, latest movie was the new Die Hard. Wasn't incredibly good, but enjoyed it; nice popcorn pic.

A classic example of the evil of publishers at work, hating the community at large. Fans: I want X! *publisher funds X* Fans: How dare you remake X! *publisher cries in fetal position* --- I think part of this stems from the Fleeting Demographic Rule: The publisher figures the franchise has laid fallow long enough that it may produce a strong crop with a new audience.

The team that ran an IndieGoGo campaign to buy Homeworld is now running a Kickstarter campaign If they need money to buy the rights to the game, I don't think they can manage HW3. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up slapping the HW name on their WIP project and posted the old games to an online distributor to milk the IP. And all off the donations of HW fans. Although I do admit, anybody who buys the IP would be a dipdunk if they didn't try and re-release the games through GoG or similar. --- Bloom: Memories Isometric RPG with an interesting mechanic and story. Color me intrigued...

So, remember that mobile gaming company that tried to raise money on IndieGoGo to buy the rights to Homeworld? They just launched a Kickstarter for the same purpose. The IndeiGoG campaign brought in $13k, and that's already theirs. With the announcement of the actual auction dates, they likely felt now was a good time... but they're dip****s if they're really planning this. Kickstarter funds can take quite a while to actually reach a company if the campaign succeeds. The auction will be a done deal by then, and I don't know if the auction house would accept the delay. The fact that Homeworld is a single lot says a lot about what they expect it to bring in, and I don't think they're leaning towards $50k after fees... Though they do bring up the good point that it would be very easy for the winner to put the games on GOG or another distribution system. They'd probably recoup at least part of their losses.

You're right, I read a bad source trying to introduce it. They got the two confused since Cyanide was involved with both, but Spiders was only working on Of Orcs and Men. So hopefully without Cyandie involved, Bound by Flame (I got the name wrong, dammit!) could be even better.

Lord British starts a countdown to... something