The publisher of the successfully funded Rainbow Six: Siege board game has demanded substantially more money from kickstarter backers

From the update (the project funded at $1,541,463 with an original $100,000 goal):

the combined crises of COVID and the war in Ukraine, which we had not anticipated, have changed the international situation

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We already faced this problem with another big project, Darkest Dungeon, and we had to ask backers for an additional contribution to cover these extra costs. More than 80% of the backers paid it

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Depending on your pledge, here is the amount that will be asked, to which you will have to add the shipping costs:

Fresh Recruit (Core Pledge): $39 (original pledge $69)

Trooper (Gameplay All-in): $99 (original pledge $199)

Smooth Operator (Premium all-in): $129 (original pledge $269)

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If you are unwilling or unable to pay, you will not receive your game in October.

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We continue to make refunds for all our projects as we are able. These refunds are made in chronological order of the requests received by email to our customer service support@mythicgames.net and according to a capped amount revised each month. These refunds will continue as long as they do not jeopardize the delivery of the projects.

Via.

Kickstarter for Cory Doctorow's new book

$10 get you a pin or the book:

Our main focus is action.

Chokepoint Capitalism is built around shovel-ready ideas for shattering the chokepoints that squeeze creators and audiences - technical, commercial and legal blueprints for artists, fans, arts organizations, technologists, and governments to fundamentally restructure the broken markets for creative labor. 

There's a pretty exotic work of art at the $1500 level. (More on the project, and why the audiobook has to be funded this way, here.)

Kickstarter to create new G.I. Joe inspired action figures by the original creative team

Operation Recall, $30 gets you your choice of one the various figures set to be produced:

Flipper Zero, the Tamagochi for Hackers

Flipper Zero kickstarter:

Flipper Zero is an electronic tool that has a curious character of a cyber dolphin who really loves to hack. The dolphin grows while you interact with digital systems in real life and he does it in his very own manner. Your actions will build his personality and he will always have fun and comment on them in his unique style.

Flipper was inspired by the pwnagotchi project. However, unlike all the other DIY boards for hackers, it's designed with the convenience of everyday usage in mind. Flipper has a robust case, handy buttons and shape, and none of these dirty PCBs and scratchy pins. Flipper turns pentesting into a game, reminding you that researching always should be fun.

Cyberzerker vinyl figure kickstarter

"ATOMAHAWK superstar creators Donny Cates and Ian Bederman have teamed up with DoomCo Designs to rip The CYBERZERKER and his titular, mighty ATOMAHAWK from their traditional tattooed landscape into the real world, through the mediums of lush soft vinyl and cast resin!" Available in various colorways:

District 9 board game kickstarter

District 9 board game.

Cyborg drop bear

Illustrations for 'EXO: Mankind Reborn, a #boardgame by @plastcraftgames coming to @kickstarter on May 2nd!https://t.co/mv4T3n0GN2 #exohttps://t.co/LnoJGW9wMg pic.twitter.com/cRlI1N2lZF

— Xabi Gaztelua - Art (@XabiGazte) April 22, 2018

Commission for @plastcraftgames pic.twitter.com/LXURsdil0J

— AngelGiraldeZ (@StudioGiraldez) April 27, 2018

Myst Kickstarter reward is a book with animated cover

"At the Maintainer tier and above, the book will include an active 800 x 400 digital screen with video fly-throughs from the games."

"The $1.4M Robotech Kickstarter is an absolute disaster"

Pg:

The Kickstarter campaign for Robotech RPG Tactics, a tabletop miniatures game that was successfully funded in 2013, is a failure. Role-playing game maker Palladium Books said this week that it is unable to complete the full range of products promised to backers five years ago. Furthermore . . . after holding the license for Robotech in the U.S. for more than 30 years, his company is now unable to renew that license with its owner, Harmony Gold.

The "Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5" has raised $5 million with 40 days to go...

And the estimated delivery date is December 2020.

Kickstarter campaign is actually a promotional ARG for the Blair Witch reboot

ARGN:

At face value, The Absence of Closure Kickstarter account is a perfectly legitimate campaign for a niche documentary film that never got made. Focusing on coping with loss, the documentary planned on highlighting how three people coped with the disappearance of their loved ones.

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That alone might still be written off as a fluke. But somehow, Lisa Arlington found a way to launch a Kickstarter campaign in February 2014 while simultaneously waiting to create her Kickstarter account on July 2016. Even more surprising? Lisa found a way to post all the comments to The Absence of Closure using a series of pseudonyms, back-dating comments posted in August 2016 to create the illusion of history.

"This is Fine" Plush Dog Kickstarter

$25.

Link roundup

1. Tumblr devoted to Columbo.

2. "I’ve accepted a commission to write a story about the collapse of the Zano drone project on Kickstarter, its largest project ever to have been funded in Europe."

I’ve been commissioned by Kickstarter itself. The company wants to help the backers of this failed project get the information they are entitled to under their agreement with the project creator. They would like to uncover the story of Zano, from its inception to the present, and decided that the best way to do that was to hire a journalist.

3. Very touching comic about a woman coping with depression.

4. Big Masters of the Universe sale at the BBTS, including Blade and Scorpia.

Link roundup

1. It's going to be Game of Thrones in space--Spike TV is now turning the sex-obsessed and militarized scientist factions of Red Mars into a series.

2. "A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business has surveyed over 47,000 Kickstarter backers and concluded that successfully-funded Kickstarters still have a roughly one in ten chance of failing to deliver."

3. The latest chapter in a thrilling playthrough of Fallout 4:

Hence, my Deathclaw Gauntlet finally gets an outing – my gamma-blasting enemies can barely get a shot off when I’m right up in their faces with this thing. All these guys are super tough, making this a long and bloody fight, as I slowly gouge seven people to death. It’s horrific, it really is. But it’s also thrilling, because

Kickstarter for a board game based on The Banner Saga

The Banner Saga Warbands.

Link roundup

1. "Speaking of cracks in space-time, an urban legend I really love is the one about a tomb in Brompton Cemetery, London, allegedly designed by Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi and rumored to be a time machine."

2. VF:

[Bill] Simmons also conceded that Grantland was not profitable. “It was probably like right around even,” Simmons said. “This is probably going to sound like sour grapes

Glitch 2.0 playing cards

Act fast and you can grab a pack for $12 at kickstarter.

You can grab the first set for $20 at Amazon.

Inspector Pancakes Helps The President Of France

Kickstarter:

"Inspector Pancakes Helps the President of France (Solve the White Orchid Murders)" is an exciting new children's book which should absolutely not be read by children! Or most adults, for that matter. 

Luckily, it is a scientific fact children cannot read small print! The large print story is for the kids, the small print is a hardboiled noir thriller for YOU! 

Written by Karla Pacheco and beautifully illustrated by Maren Marmulla, this 18 page atrocity follows the adventures of an adorable dog helping the President of France solve a series of horrific murders. At least it does if you're an adult. If you're reading this to a child you'll be learning terribly inaccurate things about France while a dog in a hat looks for a croissant.

Desktop termite habitat

On kickstarter.

Glitch Playing Cards

Glitch Playing Cards Kickstarter by Soleil Zumbrunn.