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Godus is not so Godly...

  Peter Molyneux, the man behind titles such as Black & White and Fable, has announced a new title The Trial at the Fun and Serious Game Festival. In an interview with El País, Mr Molyenux…

February 12, 2015 | 10:26 EST

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This Week In Kickstarter - Week of 2/9

This Week In Kickstarter we’ve got a slew of projects sure to make you open your purses and throw your wallets. A horror game were your character slowly descends into madness, a one button remote,…

February 9, 2015 | 11:00 EST

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Indie Interview - Brandon Goins on Orphan

TechRaptor had a chance to talk with Brandon Goins of Windy Hill Studios, via email, on his game Orphan, which is currently on Kickstarter. Orphan is an action-stealth-2d platformer game set in a…

February 8, 2015 | 10:00 EST

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Square Enix Collective Release a Demo for their Latest Title Goetia

After reaching over 50% of its $30,000 intended target on KickStarter, Goetia, a point and click adventure game developed by Sushee and backed by Square Enix Collective has released a free demo of…

February 6, 2015 | 12:58 EST

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Underworld Ascendant's Kickstarter Begins

There are few RPG franchises that are both as venerated and little known to the wider gaming audience than the Ultima Underworld series. Despite it's now relative anonymity, the Ultima Underworld …

February 5, 2015 | 09:10 EST

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This Week In Kickstarter - Week of 02/02

This Week In Kickstarter we've got a slew of projects sure to make you open your purses and throw your wallets. A horror game by the creator of Clocktower and the director of The Grudge (the original…

February 2, 2015 | 11:00 EST

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Showcasing Indie Talent - An interview with Stanley Kuschick developer of CatFish

TechRaptor likes to introduce and support new development talent whenever it can and as such I reached out to talk to Stanley Kuschick of Hamhock Games to talk about their first project CatFish, a…

February 1, 2015 | 09:00 EST

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An Unusual Interview with MoonMan developer Ben Porter

It looks incredible,  has been 3 years in development, Greenlit on Steam and yet is still someway off its KickStarter total. After feeling their plight, I reached out to the developer of MoonMan, a…

January 30, 2015 | 09:00 EST

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The Oatmeal Brings Us The Most "Backed" Kickstarter Project Yet — Exploding Kittens

UPDATE~TechRaptor has reached out to the team behind Exploding Kittens for their thoughts and comments. A new article with their responses and possibly other interesting things is on the way. Just 9…

January 29, 2015 | 01:16 EST

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A Blast From the Past: Bard's Tale IV Announced

I don't think many people were expecting this announcement. While there was a re-imagining in 2004, Brian Fargo, who has worked on games such as Wasteland 2, teased on his twitter recently that he'd…

January 27, 2015 | 01:26 EST

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Pillars of Eternity Release Date Announced

Obsidian Entertainment has announced a release date for their highly anticipated isometric, party-based, fantasy RPG. Pillars of Eternity will be releasing for PC, Mac and Linux on March 26th, 2015!…

January 15, 2015 | 07:14 EST

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Kickstarter's Back 1,980 Game Projects for 2014

Popular crowdfunding website Kickstarter has made a killing in 2014. Today the website released a ton of statistics, profiling what was no doubt a very successful year for Kickstarter. A grand total…

January 6, 2015 | 03:07 EST

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Shadowrun Returns to Kickstarter in Hong Kong

There's been talk about it for a while, and then there was that first post in the middle of December that confirmed that they would be coming with a new one but only today finally revealed the…

December 30, 2014 | 09:32 EST

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Interview with a Guild Hunter - Gil Woo

Guild of Hunters is one of the games TechRaptor recently covered on the weekly Kickstarter article so we got in touch with the team at Ignite to see if they'd be interested in talking, with their…

December 23, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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This Week in Kickstarter: December 12

Welcome back to This Week in Kickstarter where we take a look at some of the best Kickstarter projects out there. We apologize for missing last week, but we’ll hope you forgive us as we’re back now…

December 12, 2014 | 11:00 EST

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Satellite Reign Public Early Access

Coming to you soon is another game from the Kickstarter line up hitting the Steam Early Access shelves. Created by the creators of Syndicate Wars and clearly inspired by it, Satellite Reign is…

December 11, 2014 | 11:54 EST

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IMO: The Ring, Kickstarter and Too Good to be True

In the last couple of days you might have heard about the "Ring" by Logbar. It was supposed to be a bluetooth ring that could charge wirelessly and control anything with gestures from your finger,…

December 9, 2014 | 03:00 EST

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KickStarter Blocks Account After User Attempts to Sue Scam Artist

KickStarter can be a great thing. When Tim Schafer's Double Fine released a KickStarter for a new point and click adventure game, Broken Age, the project was one of the most successful KickStarters…

December 9, 2014 | 10:00 EST

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Kickstarted Survival RPG Dead State Released

Its December of 2014, and that means game company's are racing against the clock in attempts to meet 2014 release dates, as the time to push it off and stay in this calendar year is fading away…

December 4, 2014 | 08:42 EST

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Game Developer in debt to KickStarter Backers donates Paycheck to Non-Profit

Game developer Grace Lynn, formerly Devi Ever, has come under fire recently for donating her first big game development paycheck to the non-profit organisation Feminist Frequency, rather than paying…

December 4, 2014 | 09:15 EST

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Polyknight Interview on InnerSpace

InnerSpace is one of the more interesting games currently on Kickstarter and was covered in our Kickstarter article last week. With only a few days left, I had the chance to talk with the team via…

December 2, 2014 | 01:00 EST

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Mighty No. 9 Beta Ending Soon

In the recent preview posted earlier today, the team revealed that the Mighty No 9 beta will be coming to an end soon. Since the game was successfully funded on October 1st 2013, the backers have…

December 1, 2014 | 11:37 EST

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This Week in Kickstarter November 28th

Welcome back to This Week in Kickstarter where we take a look at some of the best Kickstarter projects out there. Games and Technology are always a mix, and this week we bring some retro style games…

November 28, 2014 | 11:00 EST

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This Week In Kickstarter: 11/21/14

Welcome back to This Week in Kickstarter, where interesting Kickstarters are brought to you by TechRaptor! This week we have the traditional mix of 6 projects with things like talking frogs, virtual…

November 21, 2014 | 11:00 EST

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This Week in Kickstarter 11/14/2014

Welcome back to TWIK, where we scour the kickstarter website for some of the most interesting prospects and pass them onto you. This week we have a mix of horror, platformers, and a device to make…

November 14, 2014 | 11:00 EST

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Pillars of Eternity Pre-Orders Now Available

One of the biggest gaming Kickstarters of all time is closing in on its Q1 2015 release date, and with that comes an opportunity to pre-order the game. For those looking to pre-order…

November 11, 2014 | 06:33 EST

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Ex-Bioshock Dev's Game The Black Glove Fails Kickstarter by $300,000

The Black Glove, a game that was to come from Day For Night Games, made up from ex-Bioshock developers, has failed to reach it's Kickstarted goal. Raising $216,517 of the $550,000 that was needed to…

November 10, 2014 | 10:49 EST

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This Week In Kickstarter - Nov 7

Welcome back to This Week in Kickstarter and we’re back to our normal schedule now with a mixture of Games and Tech. We bring you the projects that caught our attention this week, and give you a…

November 7, 2014 | 11:00 EST

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Blackwake - A Multiplayer Pirate FPS

Definitely one of the most intriguing Kickstarters in a while. Blackwake is a game that features ships and pirates from the Age of Sail. The recently announced Kickstarter is still in pre-alpha, but…

November 5, 2014 | 07:48 EST

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This Week In Kickstarter - 10/31/14

This Week in Kickstarter we at TechRaptor decided to make up for last weeks game-centric iteration by focusing mostly on tech in this issue. We will still have some games but it’s mostly tech this…

October 31, 2014 | 03:00 EDT

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This Week in Kickstarter - 10/24/14

This Week in Kickstarter, we at Techraptor thought we would look at some upcoming projects that have us excited. CT: Demon's Revenge - a side scrolling arcade rpg as well as animated adventure game…

October 24, 2014 | 01:00 EDT

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Opinion: Spacebase DF-9 Self-Destructs

Following the release of update 6.0 hilariously and prophetically dubbed "Brig Ambitions, Broken Dreams", Kickstarter darling Double Fine announced in the middle of September that they would be…

October 15, 2014 | 11:00 EDT

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This Week in Crowdfunding: 10/03/2014

Welcome to This Week in Crowdfunding: a roundup of promising and/or interesting Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects that are currently underway. Crowdfunding has exploded in recent years, drawing…

October 3, 2014 | 11:00 EDT

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LM Studios Gen Con 2014 Spotlight

Time can seem to stand still for some players in the turn-based combat we’ve come to associate with JRPGs, but when we got an opportunity at Indy PopCon to play LM Studios’s Super Turbo bit Crawl FX…

August 13, 2014 | 10:00 EDT

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Shovel Knight first month sales breakdown

Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games has announced via their website that their indie title has sold over 180,000 copies of their Action-Platforming game. Their blog has an extremely in depth…

August 6, 2014 | 08:32 EDT

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Wasteland 2 Release Window Announced

InXile Entertainment recently announced in a KickStarter update that Wasteland 2 will be released at the end of August this year. While an exact date was not mentioned, it is definitely good to see…

June 5, 2014 | 12:04 EDT

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Kickstarter Suffers Security Breach

Law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter earlier this week and alerted them that hackers had gained access to customer information and some specific data. Kickstarter, upon receiving this…

February 16, 2014 | 10:03 EST

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance Gets Stretch Goals on Kickstarter

There is an up and coming RPG catching attention for its unique twist to a genre that’s flooded with fantasy. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a first-person open-world RPG set in Europe during the 15th…

January 25, 2014 | 12:13 EST

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Star Citizen Surpasses 33 Million Dollar Mark

Chris Roberts’ space sim, Star Citizen, has left another funding goal in the dust and continues to truck along quite rapidly in its endeavor to raise money. The crowdfunded campaign has reached the…

December 2, 2013 | 09:00 EST

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Games to Watch: The Mandate - "One Rule, No Quarter" [Interview][Updated]

Kickstarter has become a great place for developers to get funding for games that might not otherwise be possible to complete, and because of its existence, we've seen great games like Mighty No. 9,…

November 22, 2013 | 09:00 EST