Tag: Kickstarter
News Kickstarter Success Penny Blood Still Searching for Publishing Partner
Developer attempting to increase value of the IP
Penny Blood, billed as the spiritual successor to the iconic Shadow Hearts series, still seems like it's quite a ways out, judging from recent updates from developers Studio Wildrose and Yukikaze. Along with Armed Fantasia: To the End of the Wilderness, the dual-game pitch blew up on Kickstarter in...
News PS2 Anthology Is a Set of Books Chronicling the Entire History of the Console and Its Games
Exclusive to Kickstarter backers
The PlayStation 2 is easily in contention for the title of best gaming system in history, so it makes sense to celebrate it in a suitably epic series of books. Simply titled PlayStation 2 Anthology, this upcoming tetralogy aims to tell the console's entire story across four volumes, and you can back it on Kickstarter...
News PS1 Cult Classic Hogs of War Is Bringing Home the Bacon with a Crowd-Funded Remaster
Hogs of War Lardcore trotting to PS5, PS4
Hands up: who remembers Hogs of War? Published by Infogrames late in the PS1's life, this was a 3D, military-themed, turn-based strategy game, only instead of human soldiers, it was pigs at war with each other. Playing a little bit like a 3D Worms (before Worms 3D existed), it secured cult hit status thanks...
News RPM Is a Retro Magazine Looking Back on the Fascinating History of PlayStation
Funded on Kickstarter already
Who else grew up reading magazines like OPM, PSM2, and GamesTM? While print media has receded over the years, there's still a lot of passion for it among enthusiasts. There have been lots of high quality, independent mags cropping up, and RPM looks like another great example. Spearheaded by Sandeep Rai, who...
News Patapon Successor Ratatan Earns Over 10 Times Its Goal in Booming Kickstarter Campaign
Back of the net
It turns out people want a new Patapon — or at least something close to it. The very promising project Ratatan looks great in the early trailers we've seen so far, but it'll be a while before the full game is out; a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds has just concluded, and it's been a grand success. Backers of Ratatan have...
News Ratatan Kickstarter Meets 18 Stretch Goals, Livestream Confirmed
Two days left to back the project
The Ratatan team has announced it'll be hosting a celebratory livestream as the game's Kickstarter campaign comes to a close on 1st September 2023. The Patapon-inspired title has raised almost ten times its original pledge goal to secure 18 stretch targets — the campaign currently sits on £962,
Rata-Rata-Tata-Tan!
Ratatan, the meteorically-successful, Kickstarter-funded spiritual successor to the Patapon series, is officially coming to both PS5 and PS4. Developer Ratata Arts shared the happy news on X and promised additional stretch goals, having already smashed even their most ambitious offerings. Fully funded in the first hour
News Patapon's Spiritual Successor Closing on Console Funding in Just a Day
Beat it
Update: After just 24 hours, Ratatan is now closing on its console conversion Stretch Goals. The developer is seeking ¥75,000,000 (~$523,000), but has already passed over ¥63,000,000 (~$439,000) at the time of typing. Obviously there’s still a little way for the studio to go, but with 30 days left to raise the money, we wouldn’t bet...
News Patapon Spiritual Successor Ratatan Is a Fan's Dream Come True in Debut Trailer
Kickstarter campaign starting soon
If you've grown tired of waiting for Sony to make another Patapon game, it seems the original creators are taking matters into their own hands. Named Ratatan, this spiritual successor is being helmed by staff who brought Sony's PSP series to life, and you can really tell in the debut trailer. This is Patapon in...
News It Only Did Everything, Follow Up to Vita Means Life, Will Chronicle the Glory Days of the PS3
PlayStation's unofficial historian is at it again
Author Sandeep Rai is back at it again, launching a Kickstarter project to produce a comprehensive history of the PS3 in a lovely-looking hardback format. It Only Did Everything will chronicle the good times and the bad, from the console's turbulent launch to its triumphal comeback and everything in...
News Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood Smash Kickstarter Stretch Goal, Officially Coming to PS5
Console confirmed
The Double Kickstarter project we have covered throughout the week has smashed past its initial asking amount of $750,000 and is sitting just north of the million-dollar mark at the time of writing. That means that both Armed Fantasia: To the End of the Wilderness and Penny Blood are officially coming to PS5, with an expected...
News Shadow Hearts Successor Penny Blood Gets New Trailer, Kickstarter Blows Up Overnight
Shouldn't be surprised, really
Yesterday we brought you news of a novel Double Kickstarter project, headed by the original creators of the Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts franchises, that seeks to create spiritual successors to both series. Well, the Kickstarter is live and blowing up, and we got a trailer for Penny Blood, to boot. At the time of...
News Double Kickstarter Wants to Create Spiritual Successors to Wild Arms, Shadow Hearts
A true two for one deal
A self-described Double Kickstarter project is about to begin, with original creators from both the Wild Arms and Shadow Heart franchises of JRPGs teaming up to create spiritual successors to their respective series, where hitting stretch goals for one will benefit the other. WILD BUNCH Productions is a company founded by...
News 400-Page Hardback Book Documents PS Vita's Ten Year History
Vita means life
With the PS Vita approaching its tenth anniversary, author Sandeep Rai has launched a Kickstarter for a 400-page book documenting the entire history of the now-discontinued device. Vita Means Life – which was targeting a goal of £6,000 but has already surpassed £15,000 at the time of writing – promises to “take a look back at...
News Help Dreams Project Splatty's Adventure Become a Full-Length Game with Kickstarter Campaign
3D platformer aiming to be a full game within a game
Dreams gives players the tools to make pretty much anything, and the user-made content is suitably diverse. There are people making simple props for others to use, albums of music, and animated short films. Of course, many are attempting to build games within Media Molecule's creation suite, but...
News Impressive Film Made in Dreams, Noguchi's Bell, Takes to Kickstarter for Full Animated Series
Making dreams happen
Noguchi's Bell is something we've yet to touch on here at Push Square, but it's among the most impressive things made in Dreams so far. It's a 20-minute short film made entirely using Media Molecule's toolset, and you can watch it within the game or via YouTube (above). The team behind it, Cyber Sheep Film, has bigger ideas,...
News Former Sonic Mania Devs Launch Kickstarter for Upcoming Retro Platformer Vertebreaker
Spine tingling
Why yes, we'd love a Ristar-style action platformer about a skeleton with a demonic spinal grappling hook, please and thank you. Vertebreaker has just hit Kickstarter, and we must admit, it's already looking promising. However, if it doesn't make it to PlayStation 4 (or PS5) in the future, we'll have a bone to pick with developer...
News Hourglass Is a First Person Puzzler Inspired by The Witness and RiME
And it could come to PS4
Remember Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time? The PlayStation 3 action platformer had a subset of levels featuring the metallic sidekick, in which you recorded copies of yourself to help get through various puzzle rooms. If you wanted a whole game of these time-twisting puzzles, you might want to keep an eye on Hourglass...
News This SEGA Pop-Up Book Is the Best Thing You'll See All Week
Welcome to the Fantasy Zone
To be this good takes ages – or just a brilliant pop-up book with paper-based versions of SEGA’s most iconic arcade cabinets. Check out this bundle of amazingness: The SEGA Arcade: Pop-Up History includes sculptures of various classic cabinets from the Japanese company, including Space Harrier, Hang-On, and –...
News Photography RPG The Good Life Crosses Funding Goal
Photo finish
Things were looking pretty dire for Deadly Premonition director SWERY’s photography role-playing game The Good Life – but a very well-run campaign has just crossed its funding goal. It means that the title, in collaboration with Sony Music’s Unties label, will now enter full production. There are still 48 hours left for you to...
News Walk Through Rainy Woods in The Good Life
First footage of Kickstarter
Photography-themed role-playing game The Good Life is currently seeking funds on Kickstarter, and developer White Owls has released a tech demo video showing off the open world English backdrop, Rainy Woods. This is obviously still early stuff as the project is yet to enter
News Photography RPG The Good Life Has a Crack at Kickstarter
From the makers of Deadly Premonition and Panzer Dragoon
Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka ‘SWERY’ Suehiro’s barmy “debt repayment daily life role-playing game” The Good Life has hopped from crowd-funding platform Fig to the more recognisable Kickstarter, where it’s coveting a much smaller target of $650,000 in order to get made for...
News Most Video Game Projects Fail on Kickstarter
Table-top games now rule the roost
If you’re planning to fund a video game on Kickstarter – and judging by the spam in our inbox, plenty of developers are still trying – then you may want to consider converting the project into some kind of table-top title. A new report reveals that only one in four games tends to reach their target on the...
News PlayStation Anthology Is an Ode to an Iconic Brand
Crowdfunding open now
PlayStation recently reached the point where it tipped into nostalgic territory. The brand has been at the top of its game for over 20 years now, and there are many, many people – this author included – who have been there from the very beginning. The PlayStation Anthology, a 440-page tome to one of gaming's greatest...
News Promising Kickstarter Prey for the Gods Confirms PS4 Version
No stretch goals
Prey for the Gods, the Shadow of the Colossus-inspired indie from No Matter Studios, had no hope of meeting its $600,000 console stretch goal on Kickstarter – and this was putting potential backers off. The studio had originally intended to outsource the PlayStation 4 version, but seeing the way that its campaign was progressing,...
News Shadow of the Colossus' Influence Looms Large Over Prey for the Gods
Agro! Agro!
Shadow of the Colossus is comfortably one of the greatest games ever made, and its influence is clear to see in Prey for the Gods – an upcoming survival action game set in an icy island environment. The title, which is being created by just three people, launched its Kickstarter campaign this week – with a $300,000 goal for t
News New Documentary Will Depict How PlayStation Conquered the World
And you can help fund it
PlayStation's big business these days, but that wasn't always the case. Back in the early 90s, electronics giant Sony was rather reluctant to create its own console – with its board of directors voting against Ken Kutaragi's proposal. The firm's wily CEO Norio Ohga believed in the project so much, though, that he sent the...
News Help Bring Fear Effect Sedna to the PS4 Now
Hana's here
Remember our post about an all-new upcoming Fear Effect game? Well, now's your chance to make it happen. French indie outfit Sushee has launched the Kickstarter campaign for Fear Effect Sedna, the Shadowrun Returns-inspired take on Square Enix's legendary PSone action game. The team's after €100,000 to help mak
News PSone Favourite Fear Effect to Seek Crowd Funding for Fresh Entry
Back from the brink
Bloody nora, remember Fear Effect? The original remains one of the PSone's most iconic games; the sequel, with its overly sexualised characters, less so. The cool thing is that it's making a comeback – well, if indie developer Sushee can raise enough money on Kickstarter, that is. Basically, publisher Square Enix has given the...
News PS4 Will Get Its World War II Shooter After All
Reich for the stars
Well, then – Battalion 1944 has already been funded. You may remember us reporting on the Kickstarter for the World War II multiplayer shooter earlier in the week – well, it's already raised its goal of £100,000, with a whopping 27 days left to go. The studio has said that it will add £100,000 of its own money to the
News Battalion 1944 Aims to Bring World War II Shooters Back
We did Nazi that coming
Bulkhead Studios – creators of first-person puzzler Pneuma: Breath of Life – has just announced a new game on Kickstarter that's vastly different to its previous project: Battalion 1944, a World War II multiplayer shooter in the veins of Medal of Honor and the early
News Sensible Soccer's Spiritual Successor May Slide Tackle PS4
Back of the net
There's an extra religion in the UK, and its members consist of those that played Sensible Soccer on the Amiga. The series – developed by Sensible Software – was the FIFA of its day, selling thousands of copies and earning cult status among eighties gamers. And now it could be making a comeback on the PlayStation 4 – assuming...
News Darksiders Creators Launch Indie Kickstarter to Bring Comic-Inspired JRPG to PS4
Death-initely going to be funded
It's a cold day in Hell if you don't find this particular scribe praising the Darksiders series made by the former Vigil Games. Both games exhibited Joe Madureira's profoundly unique, bold art style that brought their fantastical worlds and mythical characters to life, and with solid hack 'n' slash gameplay backed by...
News Shenmue III Smashes Records, Secures $6.3 Million in Funding
Long awaited sequel due out on PS4 in 2017
Forget about the day that the snow turned to rain – something even stranger is happening: Shenmue III is getting made for the PlayStation 4. It's been a whirlwind since the title was announced during Sony's press conference at E3 2015, but the crowd funding is now over – and a whopping $6,333,295...
News Lucky Hit! Shenmue III Is Now the Most Funded Game in Kickstarter History
And there are still 12 hours to go
Shenmue III has become the most funded video game in Kickstarter history – and there are still 12 hours left for the PlayStation 4 and PC sequel to do something really special. A couple of troll pledges mean that the campaign is fluctuating a little, but at the time of typing its sitting at $5,553,410 – putting...
News Kickstarter May Be Your Only Way to Buy Shenmue III on Blu-ray
You know what you need to do
Should you back Shenmue III's soon-to-end Kickstarter campaign? Well, if your answer up until now has been 'maybe some other time' then you may want to reconsider, as Ys Net has revealed that a physical PlayStation 4 release is not guaranteed outside of the crowdfunding drive. Currently, backing the project for $60 will...
News The Snow Turns to Rain in Final Hours of Shenmue III Campaign
Let's get sweaty
Well, this is it: your last chance to save Shenmue. It's been a topsy-turvy ride for Yu Suzuki's long awaited Kickstarter campaign, but with the end in sight, it's time for one final push to make Shenmue III a reality. At the time of typing, the title has amassed $5.5 million, which means that it's agonisingly close to breaking...
News Shenmue III Smashes $5 Million Milestone
Way cool
Shenmue III may have struggled during the middle part of its crowd funding campaign, but it's really flying right now. Following the release of this morning's new trailer, the title has raised a further $100,000 on Kickstarter – and has crossed the all-important $5 million milestone as a consequence. This means that the Character...
News Yu Suzuki Hints at Fresh Shenmue III Trailer
FREE at last
This is it: the final push. Shenmue III is a week away from being funded, and while the past seven days have been kind to the project, it's going to need a massive boost in order to hit some of its latter stretch goals. Fortunately, series creator Yu Suzuki sounds like a man with a plan, and he's hinted as part of a Twitter Q&A that...
News Turn Yourself into a Shenmue III Toy Capsule
Love these
Shenmue III has about week left to make as much money as possible, which means that the pressure's now on for the Kickstarter campaign. We already know that the game is going to get made, but Yu Suzuki has stressed that the more money that gets contributed, the more elaborate the final product will be. At the time of typing the funding...
News Keep Those You Love Closer with New Shenmue III Backer Rewards
Iwao would be proud
We thought that the Shenmue III Kickstarter campaign was being poorly managed at first, but developer Ys Net is getting cunning as the crowd funding drive marches confidently towards its conclusion. Two new tiers have been added to the title today, and one is aimed specifically at all those who upped their pledge to $60 following...
News Shenmue III Is Already One of the Biggest Kickstarters of All Time
Lucky hit
Fans will know that the Shenmue series doesn't do things by half. Yu Suzuki's seminal action adventure was once the most expensive game ever made – almost bankrupting publisher SEGA in the process – but now it has ten days remaining to become the biggest Kickstarter ever, too. With the Pebble Watch sitting at a cool $20 million, it...
E3 2015 Shenmue III Expands with Fresh Stretch Goals
We love these
Shenmue III has rocketed past $3 million, meaning that it's time for some new Stretch Goals to be added to the campaign. These focus on Baisha Village, one of the three main hub areas in the game. The additions run from $4 million to $5 million, and include additional quests, mini-games, and battle events. If we had to guess, Yu Suzuki...
News Castlevania Successor Bloodstained Sets a Record on Kickstarter
$4.75 million raised so far
Upcoming PlayStation 4 and Vita title Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has become the most funded video game in Kickstarter history, ushering in over $4.75 million as of this writing. With 12 hours left, it's looking like the project will absolutely smash through its final stretch goal of $5 million. If (when) it hits...
News Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Submits to PS Vita Demand
Long live the legacy
Despite all the naysayers declaring the PlayStation Vita a dead console and Sony seemingly distancing itself from the "legacy" platform as if it has smallpox, the handheld is still getting new games. The latest title to be gracing the portable comes courtesy of Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The...
News Pray for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on PS Vita
Or just donate more money
It's been a little while since we last posted about Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, but the project has gone from strength to strength since its announcement a few weeks ago. Now sitting at a cool $3 million, Koji Igarashi's revival has been officially confirmed for the PlayStation 4, and will be getting several bonuses...
News Castlevania's Koji Igarashi Returns with Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on PS4
Join the army of the night
There have been no shortage of Castlevania-inspired works on PlayStation of late, but while the likes of Guacamelee and Axiom Verge owe part of their success to Symphony of the Night director Koji Igarashi, the veteran developer has been out of the spotlight for some time. It was only a matter of time, however, before the...
News This Dude Wanted $20,000 to Smash Up His Anniversary PS4
Haters gonna hate
There's a gag in Life Is Strange that alludes to the ubiquity of bad Kickstarter campaigns, and while it's one of the game's more on-the-nose pop culture references, we reckon that it's bang on going by this particular fund raising drive. Already cancelled by the company monitoring the money making site, one guy was offering to...
News Blood Sport Is Probably the Worst Kickstarter Idea Ever
Bloody hell
It takes a special kind of Kickstarter campaign to make this author feel squeamish, but as your humble host taps out this story, let it be known that his skin has turned a subtle shade of green. Blood Sport is quite possibly the most mind bogglingly terrible idea in the history of crowd funding – and it’s no surprise that the drive...
News Twin Souls: The Path of Shadow Stalks Its Prey on Kickstarter
Glow in the dark
Tenchu started the path of old-school stealth action on the original PlayStation, which required you to use your innate ninja abilities to infiltrate your way to assassination targets. While the stealth genre is far from dead with titles such as Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell, and Hitman still running strong, al
