Mighty Lords, the miniatures Kickstarter from the UK based development company Room 17, is currently in its last week on Kickstarter. It's already surpassed its funding goal of £10,000 and the…
July 6, 2019 | 09:54 EDT
Artplay and 505 Games are targeting mid-July for the upcoming Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Nintendo Switch fix. The game has run into its fair share of problems on Nintendo's console including…
July 5, 2019 | 09:40 EDT
Following an outcry from players over Shenmue 3 PC recent Epic Games Store exclusivity announcement, developer YSNET Inc, publisher Deep Silver, and Epic Games announced today that there will be…
July 2, 2019 | 07:13 EDT
A decade or two ago, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was all the rage. Everyone had their favorite—mine was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3—and the games became a cultural phenomenon, right up until a ridiculous…
June 26, 2019 | 01:30 EDT
As gamers, we'll probably never get over PT. Despite being very short and self-contained, the playable Silent Hills teaser was the most original, scary horror game to be released for quite some time…
June 25, 2019 | 09:40 EDT
Middara: Unintentional Malum Act 1 is the best new game that I've played in the past few years. After playing through it's 100+ hours long campaign, the game sits snugly inside my personal top 5…
June 24, 2019 | 02:30 EDT
Your chance to end the war between Heaven and Hell has come. Sideshow's Court of the Dead: Mourners Call will land in retail stores this fall with a recommended retail price of $99.99. The war…
June 24, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
Board to Death Games, creators of cyberpunk racing board game Neon Knights: 2086, has announced a new game which is claiming the title of the world's first dice tower miniatures game. Tah Wars is a…
June 16, 2019 | 10:51 EDT
Who doesn't love a good adventure? Well apparently Themeborne, the company behind 2017's Escape the Dark Castle do and they're ready to prove it. After a successful campaign for both Escape the Dark…
June 7, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
Shenmue III Director Yu Suzuki and publisher Deep Silver have posted an update on Kickstarter to announce a delay for the highly anticipated open-world action-adventure game. As we reported last…
June 3, 2019 | 06:51 EDT
This spring, Techraptor interviewed Joey Turco, event host for the Gamerati Meetup Group. We discussed how crowdfunding affects game design as well as his team’s upcoming Dungeon Brawler tabletop…
June 3, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Game development can be pretty hard. Even trying to create a rudimentary pixel-art based game can be quite taxing if you're completely new at it. Over the years that have been several attempts at…
May 22, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Tabletop games range from the simple to complex, and Tabula Games definitely aims to make games closer to the complex side of the scale. The Icaion Kickstarter has launched after being announced a…
May 21, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Mödiphiüs Entertainment, publishers of Legacy: Life Among The Ruins, have announced three brand new books to bring some massive sweeping changes to the world of the original game. The three new…
May 14, 2019 | 06:05 EDT
You can look at indie releases in the past few years and see that old-school first-person shooters are among the most popular. Games such as Dusk and Amid Evil are making the old new again by paying…
April 17, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
The technology behind games and their design has propelled the medium to new heights. Simultaneously, however, there has been a great surge in those wanting to return to, or discover for the first…
April 10, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
File this one under "stranger than fiction": Chinese censors have reportedly burned the entire print run of an RPG called The Sassoon Files. Consequently, developers Sons of the Singularity have had…
March 27, 2019 | 06:03 EDT
With the rise of Kickstarter and other avenues of funding, there have never been more ways to find funding for your project. That said, the introduction of the internet has also made it so there are…
March 25, 2019 | 02:30 EDT
With a new Kickstarter campaign from Tomb Guardians focused on raising funds to produce a new set of miniatures, Queen of the Damned: Velrath’s Vampires, much of the work will depend on the sculptors…
March 13, 2019 | 03:00 EDT
If you follow miniatures company Tomb Guardians, keep an eye on their new Kickstarter campaign for Queen of the Damned: Velrath’s Vampires. After tackling dwarves and monsters, Tomb Guardians is…
March 13, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Any good fantasy nerd will tell you that the tavern-come-inn is the true heart of any high fantasy setting, and the best place to meet comrades in arms, perhaps second only to jail. After all, the…
March 7, 2019 | 11:00 EST
IDW Games, renowned publishers of many licensed board games, have dropped Ninja Division from all their current and future projects, citing complains from concerned customers. Ninja Division is a…
February 25, 2019 | 10:08 EST
Millennium Blades is a winning hand for people who want to play collectible card games in a more compact package. Developed by David B. Talton Jr. and his company Level 99 Games, it’s a CCG…
February 8, 2019 | 04:10 EST
Bubsy: Paws on Fire is the next entry in the cult platformer, releasing this April. While it's still a few months out, Accolade is launching a Kickstarter for a DLC campaign for this upcoming,…
February 4, 2019 | 08:48 EST
The Nintendo 64 has had several games that have been famously abandoned. One such game was Dragon Sword, a hack and slash RPG by the now-defunct publisher Interactive Studios. Now, nearly twenty…
January 30, 2019 | 08:41 EST
I rarely write about tabletop games, here on TechRaptor. Sure, I'm an avid consumer of both board games and pen and paper RPGs, but most of my expertise lies with video games. However, as an Italian…
January 28, 2019 | 01:00 EST
The Kinda Funny Games Showcase had a ton of trailers for small indie games, but perhaps the most ambitious spot was a live-action trailer for the currently on KickStarter game, Adams Ascending.…
December 8, 2018 | 04:40 EST
Originally Kickstarted in February 2013 for a February 2014 release, today Himalaya Studios has announced the release date for Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements, an old-school adventure/RPG…
November 28, 2018 | 06:49 EST
Claustrophobia is one of those games that I've always wanted to play but never got around to. The original game came out in 2009, a time when my core boardgame group was really just testing the…
November 1, 2018 | 06:25 EDT
Nightdive Studios' System Shock remake looks to be making great progress after a few bumps in the road this year. Last February CEO of Nightdive Studios Stephen Kick spoke about development troubles…
October 6, 2018 | 11:22 EDT
When I started TechRaptor in 2013, I wanted to create a website that was fair, balanced, and, above all, true to its readers. We focus on quality content, and unlike some of our competitors, you’re…
September 12, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
In the town of Hamsterdam, the evil chinchilla Marlo has kidnapped people, doped everyone up on booze, and opened casinos & a red-light district. This savagery is bad enough, but the bad guy…
September 3, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Ambitious science fiction MMO Dual Universe will enter its alpha testing stage in November. The game was originally crowdfunded via Kickstarter back in October 2016, where it met its 500,000 euro…
August 8, 2018 | 11:53 EDT
The indie scene is generally pretty young, with the modern form of it largely beginning to take shape around 2008-2009 and evolving over the past decade. While in the 80s there was a vibrant small…
June 26, 2018 | 10:47 EDT
Going into the demo for Descent, I was a bit skeptical. One of my most distinct gaming memories involved the original Descent on the PC. Back in the '90s before everyone had computers in their…
June 20, 2018 | 01:30 EDT
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon has reached over 100,000 sales a week after its release. Developer Inti Creates announced the milestone on Twitter, with some celebratory artwork from character…
June 6, 2018 | 01:53 EDT
Pretty much ever since the first Pocket Monsters games hit Game Boy, kids have wanted to play them online, as I can attest from first-hand experience. We went from link cables to Wi-Fi Connections to…
May 29, 2018 | 03:11 EDT
If you're keen on getting in on the Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night crowdfunding campaign, you have a bit over two weeks before it's closed for good according to a backer update posted on the game'…
April 29, 2018 | 03:49 EDT
The Good Life, SWERY's latest project currently being funded via Kickstarter, has received a free demo. The demo was released after a poll undertaken by SWERY via Twitter. In the poll, which was…
April 26, 2018 | 11:30 EDT
An "auteur" is commonly defined as someone whose aesthetic, style, and degree of control makes each of their projects utterly unique and unquestionably "theirs." Readers might think of Hideo Kojima,…
April 20, 2018 | 12:23 EDT
Max and Maya, jokingly billed by its creators as a "realistic alpha-cat simulator", is coming to Steam in spring 2019. The project, which is currently up for funding on Kickstarter, describes itself…
April 18, 2018 | 10:29 EDT
Following an extremely turbulent development cycle, the Kickstarter backed Unsung Story is set to leave pre-production later on this month. Developer Little Orbit announced on April 1st (and no, it…
April 3, 2018 | 04:52 EDT
The archives of Kickstarter are full of projects that were funded but then canceled. Some of these saw issues with underestimating their needed funding. Others saw real life get in the way, breaking…
March 28, 2018 | 03:00 EDT
Iron Harvest, the upcoming "classic real-time strategy" game set in the same alternate history post-World War I universe as acclaimed 2016 board game Scythe, hit Kickstarter on Tuesday. Now, two days…
March 15, 2018 | 11:03 EDT
The Kickstarter campaign for Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come: Deliverance was funded at £1,106,371 from a £300,000 goal in February 2014. It included several stretch goals: Live In-Game Period Music,…
March 13, 2018 | 01:53 EDT
Alternate history is a fascinating concept: It speaks to us in both our interest in what came before and to our love to ask "what if." It’s this combination, along with some absolutely amazing…
March 13, 2018 | 09:33 EDT
A Hat In Time will be receiving a host of new features for free in 2018. The game's developers Gears for Breakfast confirmed the incoming update via the game's official Twitter account. New features…
January 23, 2018 | 09:20 EST
Skateboarding fans rejoice! The campaign for street skateboarding sim Session has been funded in four days according to a campaign update on the game's Kickstarter page. There have been a few…
November 27, 2017 | 07:27 EST