GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Kickstarter funding explodes, on pace to triple this year to around $300M
We’ve been reporting on a lot of very cool tech and gaming projects that have found huge success on the New York-based crowdfunding platform...
Tim Schafer shares 5 tips to Kickstarter success
Tim Schafer believes Double Fine’s success on Kickstarter is repeatable as long as developers deliver capable and profound pitches that speak to their audience....
InXile raises nearly $3M via Kickstarter for Wasteland 2
It took about 24 years, but Brian Fargo finally has the cash to create the sequel to his beloved Wasteland game. Thanks to a...
Harebrained Schemes needs your help to resurrect Shadowrun
Developer Harebrained Schemes hopes to bring back the RPG classic Shadowrun in the form of Shadowrun Returns for tablets and PC. Of course they...
The DeanBeat: The top 12 trends from the GDC
Too often, I flit from one conference to another like a wayward butterfly, trying to catch up with all the news. But the Game...
Wasteland 2 raises $903K, hitting its Kickstarter target in just two days
Crowdfunding triumphs again. In just two days, Brian Fargo has raised more than $903,000 on Kickstarter to fund Wasteland 2, a sequel to a...
Last chance to be a part of Kickstarter history: Double Fine campaign ends today
With less than six hours left on the clock, Double Fine is already celebrating more than $3M in Kickstarter funding for its Double Fine...
Brian Fargo begins raising $900K for Wasteland 2 on Kickstarter
Brian Fargo, chief executive of InXile Entertainment and a veteran game-maker, is following through with plans to raise money for Wasteland 2 on Kickstarter....
The high cost of being indie (infographic)
Being indie ain’t easy. Without the safety blanket of a publisher or the wallet of an angel investor, many indie devs rely on personal...