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Kickstarter today shared some statistics from their campaigns that showed us all how good this platform was to the industry.

  • About 561,000 backers contributed $83 million to 2,796 submitted projects in the video gaming space
  • Only 911 projects were successfully funded
  • The most popular game was Tim Schafers adventure game project with $3.3 million dollars
  • Video games contributed the most money to Kickstarter as a whole with about 25% of the total contributions

As you can see, Kickstarter is a valuable tool to the video gaming industry and we are sure you’ll be hearing a lot more about it in 2013.

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Joe Marchese is the founder / Editor in Chief of New Gamer Nation. He has been a gamer for his whole life but has been focusing on his passion to deliver the industry's new to New Gamer Nation. He is an expert of video game culture and has been featured on Fox News Online. Don't be shy to reach out and let him know what you think!