Kickstarter

Kickstarter’s records have been smashed by Ouya, a $99 Android-based video game console that promises to bring affordable games to the television. The project, which originally set out to raise $950,000, is now up to $5.7 million pledged from more than 47,000 backers with 10 left to go. Built using standard components like a Tegra Continue Reading →

I’ve been skeptical about Ouya – and remain so – but at least we finally have news that a real flesh-and-blood game is going to be made for the Android-based console. Robert Bowling of Call of Duty fame and his new studio, Robotoki, are developing an action-RPG set in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse Continue Reading →

Gamers want a new video game console. That’s the impression you get if you’ve been watching the explosion of activity on the Kickstarter page for OUYA, the hackable, Android-based game console that will retail for $99. To date, the OUYA has raised $5 million dollars from nearly 40,000 Kickstarter investors, with more than 32,000 plunking Continue Reading →

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has come in for a lot of plaudits for creating a new platform on which to fund startups. Certainly, since the passing of the U.S. Jobs Act earlier this year, crowdfunding is about to have its day in the sun. But it’s also had its fair share of skeptical critics. A few Continue Reading →

The Ouya, a $99 Android-powered console whose prototype has raised $4.9 million in 7 days on Kickstarter, is a mystery wrapped in a sleek silver box. Many players seem to gravitate toward the idea because of its price point, while it would appear developers, especially indies, are backing it for its open hardware. But those Continue Reading →

The entirely imaginary Ouya game console just raised more than $4 million from “funders” on Kickstarter, proving the old Barnum adage. Even at a dollar per person, you need only 7.6 years worth of suckers to be born every minute to run this scam. Ouya is just the latest Kickstarter pipe dream to fleece its Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120712_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Two new Kickstarter records have been set by a project whose popularity has exploded since it was added to the site. The Ouya video game console became the fastest project to raise a million bucks and raised the most money ever raised on Kickstarter in one day.  Continue Reading →

From the million-plus dollars raised for a graphic novel about stick figures to an all-female anthology showcasing the works of women in comics, the crowdfunding website Kickstarter has become one of the biggest graphic novel publishers in the US. Research by US book industry magazine Publishers Weekly puts Kickstarter – which is set to launch Continue Reading →

Unusual new gaming console OUYA, a tiny peripheral based on Android and targeted at a $99 launch price, has now raised over $2.5 million on Kickstarter at the time of writing and still has 28 days of funding yet. Speaking to VentureBeat, founder Julia Uhrman said that she and her team hadn’t anticipated such a Continue Reading →

If Lesley Mansford has her way, Razoo will soon be as familiar to you as Kickstarter. Razoo is a company that’s like a Kickstarter for nonprofit causes, an online platform that facilitates crowdsourced fundraising. And though she’s only been at the helm for nine months as Razoo’s CEO, Mansford has presided over the company’s biggest Continue Reading →