Tag: kickstarter
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Kickstarter: The Future of Video Games?
by Benjamin Fitzgerald Kickstarter has slowly begun to demand my attention. It started off small: a game here and a game there; an offhand comment in a casual conversation; a brief visit to the website half a year ago. Lately, however, I’ve been paying the highly successful crowd-funding company serious consideration. After reading Marshall Garvey’s…
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A Fun Adventure in a Nonsense World
by Benjamin Fitzgerald What do you get when you combine an overweight exterminator, a singing purple bear and a world full of monstrous insects? Why, you get The Ballads of Remus – When the Bed Bites! Enter a zany, bizarre world full of over-sized parasites, ketchup plants and thirsty peasants in this charming adventure.…
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LTG Spotlight – Insert Coin: Inside Midway’s 90’s Revolution
By Marshall Garvey When Last Token Gaming was established two years ago, one of my first hopes was to spotlight the history of video games in various ways. Aside from my obvious inclination from being a history major and writer, a crucial motivation behind this was just how underrated and largely untold the stories of…
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Welcome Back Shenmue!
By Terry Randolph I know — it’s been a couple weeks since the announcement of Shenmue III’s Kickstarter and the hype around it has died down significantly. However, in order to ensure I approach this with a clear, open mind, I preferred taking my time to write this out. Obviously, it’s easy writing about a hotly…
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Last Token Gaming Interview – Three Flip Studios
By Jake Rushing and Marshall Garvey Last week, Marshall Garvey and Jake Rushing had the privilege of being joined by Three Flip Studios’ Rob Howland, Anthony Prusakowski and Brandon Jones. The developers of the upcoming shooter Armed and Gelatinous, Jake met them at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. They sat down with…
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Sacramento Indie Arcade Expo 2015 Reflections
By Marshall Garvey, Jake Rushing and Isaac Smith A week ago, on Saturday, April 11th, some of the most talented local game devs and many gaming enthusiasts met up at the Sacramento Indie Arcade Gaming Expo. Hosted at the Colonial Cafe on Stockton Blvd., it primarily served as a space for devs to share…
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Kickstarter Profile: Super Slam Dunk Touchdown!
By Jake Rushing While I was at GDC, I decided to take a stroll to GDC Play, where many Game Developers are looking to showcase their games in hopes of gaining more attention. I came across quite a bit of games, but there are few that I remembered from GDC Play. One of them was…