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Kickstarter unveils “tools creators have been asking for” for 2025 as it looks to fight off rising Gamefound challenge

Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter is bringing in new pledge management and pay-in-installments options this year amid increasing competition from rival platforms such as Gamefound.

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“Our ambition for 2025 is to be number one in tabletop”: Gamefound closes gap on Kickstarter again as crowdfunding giant’s 2024 dollars raised remains flat

Tabletop game crowdfunding platform Gamefound has moved a step closer to its hugely ambitious goal of overtaking industry giant Kickstarter in the category this year, with new data seeming to show the latter’s tabletop funding total falling for the third year in a row.

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End looms for Mythic Games as company gives up trying to deliver $1.3m Monsterpocalypse Kickstarter, hands files over to IP holder Privateer Press

Financially-stricken board game publisher Mythic Games has quit trying to complete its $1.3m Kickstarter for kaiju-battling game Monsterpocalypse – one of its last remaining projects after several years of failing to fulfil a string of big-money crowdfunding campaigns.

Thumbnail for Ares Games teams with Armenian board game publisher Red Cat – successor to Russia’s Lifestyle Boardgames – for English versions of two games, hopes for more in future

Ares Games teams with Armenian board game publisher Red Cat – successor to Russia’s Lifestyle Boardgames – for English versions of two games, hopes for more in future

War of the Ring publisher Ares Games is bringing two games from Armenian publisher Red Cat Games – the successor studio to Russia’s Lifestyle Boardgames – to the English language market amid a busy year for the Italy-based business.

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