Mac! Logan! Wallace! Piz! Dick being a….well, dick.
Veronica Mars is back with the movie that was funded entirely by Kickstarter. She has left her sleuth days behind her and has become a lawyer with a new life until her ex, Logan, comes under suspicion for murder. Veronica is off to Neptune to investigate with her ten year high school reunion also in the works.
The movie reached its Kickstarter goal of $2 million in only ten hours. It ended with a total of $5.7 million which is a Kickstarter record.
Mega64 has posted a video detailing exactly how they are coming along with the game that was funded through Kickstarter and to ask for a little more help. When I say the game is “coming along” I mean that in a “we bought a boat” sort of way.
But dammit, with our help Sakred Diamondz will become a reality! Keep donating!
That reminds me, would any of you be interested in my Kickstarter to fund a true sequel to the Judge DreddSNES game?
Kickstarter is truly a unique concept, but it is also a place where some shady shit can go down. I do not mind throwing a couple of bucks towards a project that I want to see come to fruition (Veronica Mars). I won’t, however, throw money at a developer that is known to have plenty of assets and connections to get their project funded.
Leave it to the guys at Mega64 to bring some levity to the whole Kickstarter revolution as only they can. If you actually start to delve into Kickstarter you will begin to notice that some projects are worse than this video which skewers them.
Here is the first teaser trailer for Double Fine’s Broken Age which was funded by the $3.3 million that fans gave through Kickstarter last year. It is a point-and-click adventure that tells the story of two children who are living parallel lives in two very different lands.
I have to admit that I am excited about the possibilities of this game given that it is being funded by fans and can truly give Double Fine free reign to let their imagination run wild with no publisher interference.
Broken Age can be pre-ordered on PC, Mac and Linux through the game’s website and it will also be made available for the Ouya console.
Ouya is going to be getting into the hands of Kickstarter backers on March 28th and consumers in June and founder Julie Uhrman is making the rounds hyping up the $99 Android-based console. At a SXSW panel she was asked if the console would be able to play current console blockbusters and she had an interesting response.
“Yes, and why would we? Those experiences are great on those devices. You wouldn’t want to play those games anywhere else. But we are going to have exclusive games. … We’re going to have inventive, creative, exciting content that no one else has. At $99, it’s not an either-or decision.”
Uhrman is really sticking to her guns about keeping Ouya a unique console experience. While on the one hand, it would be great to have a $99 console that you could play Mass Effect 3 on, trying to separate yourself from any competitors could be a gamble that pays off. The entire history of the Ouya has been a gamble and so far, so good.
Let’s all play a game kids. It’s called “How Fast Can A Veronica Mars Movie Get Kickstarted?”
Veronica Mars was one of the most fun and intelligent shows of the past decade. It was cancelled five years ago by the CW who airs shows like Beauty and the Beast and….is One Tree Hill still on? I don’t know. But things are looking up Mars fans! Series creator Rob Thomas has started a Kickstarter for a long rumored movie that would bring back the beautiful super sleuth. Kristen Bell is fully on board and ready to get to work also. So if you are a fan go and throw them a couple of bucks to show your support.
I think it is safe to say that this will easily hit its goal. They are needing $2 million dollars to get started and in the time it has taken me to write this piece it has already grown from $934,000 to…..(let me see)….over $1,004,000 with 30 days left. This may be a Kickstarter record in the making.
Check out the official Kickstarter page here to read a message from Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell about bringing Veronica Mars back.
Speaking to different outlets at this year’s DICE, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman revealed that the Ouya console, which will release this March for Kickstarter backers and is up for pre-order for June release to everyone else, will have yearly iterations taking advantage of cheaper component prices year to year and better processors.
“As it relates to iterating the console and refreshes, our strategy is very much similar to the mobile strategy. There will be a new Ouya every year. There will be an Ouya 2 and an Ouya 3. We’ll take advantage of faster, better processors, take advantage of prices falling. So if we can get more than 8GB of Flash in our box, we will. And in so doing, make sure that all games are backwards compatible.”
Uhrman also talked about what the Ouya will launch with internally, “We’re launching on the Tegra 3. It’s a quad-core A9 chip. Because it’s not a mobile device, we don’t have to balance power for battery life. So when all four quads are running, it’s 1.6GHz. It’s gonna be the best Tegra 3 device on the market.”
Each owner will have an Ouya account that will link to the user no matter what version of the Ouya they are using.
Some may scoff at the thought of a yearly console, but for the premium price of $99 it really is no different from getting a yearly phone, which many people already do.
Ouya, the console that helped put Kickstarter on the front page by garnering over $8.5 million in donations, will see its release in June. The system has over 200 titles in development for the Android based system including the hugely popular Minecraft.
Ouya will cost $99.99 and come with a console and one controller. Extra controllers will be made available for $49.99. Gamestop, Best Buy, Target and Amazon are among the leading retailers that will be carrying the system. If you backed the Ouya Kickstarter then you will be able to buy the system in March.
Pre-orders are now being taken for the June release. Will the Ouya truly start a console revolution or will it join the eternal closet of damnation with the Jaguar, 3DO and Virtual Boy?
