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Video game Kickstarter campaigns raised $13m in first half of 2021 $$$$ Sep 3rd, 2021

Video game Kickstarter campaigns raised $13m in first half of 2021

One of the most successful periods since 2015's blockbuster year

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Why Borderlands 3 has been a smash hit on PC SUCCESS STORY Oct 11th, 2019

Why Borderlands 3 has been a smash hit on PC

Gearbox Software senior producer Anthony Nicholson talks Epic, pent-up excitement for the game and what the studio learnt from the title's release

The digital shift and treating developers right: Devolver's Struthers looks back on the label's first decade WORK HARD BE NICE Sep 6th, 2019

The digital shift and treating developers right: Devolver's Struthers looks back on the label's first decade

The co-founder discusses how moving away from physical let the company focus on what mattered, how the publisher ended up working on Hotline Miami and why it started running a fake press conference

How Football Manager 19 smashed series records and sold over two million copies in eight months SUCCESS STORY Aug 16th, 2019

How Football Manager 19 smashed series records and sold over two million copies in eight months

Studio director Miles Jacobson OBE tells us why this edition of the popular simulation title broke new ground

How Discord attracted 250m users in four years SUCCESS STORY Aug 7th, 2019

How Discord attracted 250m users in four years

CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy tells us more

How My Friend Pedro shot past 250,000 sales in seven days SUCCESS STORY Jul 8th, 2019

How My Friend Pedro shot past 250,000 sales in seven days

One-man developer Victor Agren aka Deadtoast Entertainment tells us more

How Total War: Three Kingdoms became the fastest-selling entry in the long-running strategy series SUCCESS STORY Jun 6th, 2019

How Total War: Three Kingdoms became the fastest-selling entry in the long-running strategy series

Creative Assembly chief product officer Rob Bartholomew and game director Janos Gaspar tell us all

How Superhot sold over two million copies and where its developer goes from here SUCCESS STORY May 31st, 2019

How Superhot sold over two million copies and where its developer goes from here

Business developer Tomasz Kaczmarczyk tells us more

Why Anno 1800 became the fastest-selling entry in the 21-year-old franchise SUCCESS STORY May 22nd, 2019

Why Anno 1800 became the fastest-selling entry in the 21-year-old franchise

Creative director Dirk Riegert tells us more

How 11 Bit Studios' Frostpunk is closing in on 1.5m sales SUCCESS STORY May 14th, 2019

How 11 Bit Studios' Frostpunk is closing in on 1.5m sales

"Think of mainstream hits as Hollywood movies and our games like the movies you can see at Sundance"

Why Chucklefish's Wargroove made back its dev costs within just three days SUCCESS STORY Feb 22nd, 2019

Why Chucklefish's Wargroove made back its dev costs within just three days

COO Donna Orlowski tells us more

How Farming Simulator 19 sold over one million copies in just ten days SUCCESS STORY Dec 13th, 2018

How Farming Simulator 19 sold over one million copies in just ten days

PR and marketing manager Martin Rabl tells us more

How Nexon brought MMO MapleStory 2 from Korea to the West SUCCESS STORY Nov 20th, 2018

How Nexon brought MMO MapleStory 2 from Korea to the West

Lead designer Miyoung Oh shares how the project attracted one million users within a week of this launch

How Bethesda has tried to make Elder Scrolls Online the most accessible MMO in town MM OH? Oct 22nd, 2018

How Bethesda has tried to make Elder Scrolls Online the most accessible MMO in town

Zenimax Online Studios president Matt Firor tells us how it has made a game designed to suit anyone

Why Jurassic World Evolution has been a roaring success for Frontier Developments SUCCESS STORY Sep 21st, 2018

Why Jurassic World Evolution has been a roaring success for Frontier Developments

Assistant marketing director Zac Antonaci tells us what worked for the Cambridge-based game maker and what lessons it has learnt

“We found a great balance in realism and fun in SCUM” - How Gamepires and Devolver's survival title shifted 250k copies in 24 hours SCUM Sep 5th, 2018

“We found a great balance in realism and fun in SCUM” - How Gamepires and Devolver's survival title shifted 250k copies in 24 hours

Gamepires’ Josip Barisic reflects on the survival hit’s sudden success

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