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American McGee pulls plug on OZombie Kickstarter campaign

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Spicy Horse Games chief American McGee has decided to end his crowdfunding Kickstarter campaign for OZombie.

Although the game project had more than 2,600 backers, it was falling far short of its target, having raised $141,513 of its goal of $950,000 with 21 days to go. In an update entitled “End of the Rainbow,” McGee mournfully declared that the “Oz campaign has to end.” [See our interview with McGee.]

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.