Star Citizen has crossed the $1 billion crowdfunding mark on Roberts Space Industries’ official funding page. The r/Games thread focused less on celebration and more on the project’s 13-year development span, live alpha state, and the gap between funding scale and final release.
Kickstarter has issued a public apology and fully reverted its recently updated mature content guidelines after significant backlash from creators and the community, returning to its previous policy prohibiting only pornography and illegal content.
Kickstarter has become the latest platform to restrict adult content, apparently under pressure from payment processors like Visa and Mastercard. The move reignites debate over the outsized power of financial intermediaries over online creative content.
Skeleton Crew Studio is reportedly preparing legal action after much of the crowdfunding money for Shibuya Scramble Stories failed to arrive. The developer says it received only about half of the 55 million yen raised through Ubgoe.
Automaton West reports that Shibuya Scramble Stories raised 55 million yen, about $340 thousand USD, but developer Jiro Ishii’s team says it still has not received more than half of the money from platform operator Ubgoe. The dispute has turned one successful campaign into a warning about payout custody and developer liability.