So. Much. Money.

Kickstarter has released a ton of stats on all the projects that were started in 2012, and gaming brought in the most money pledged of all the categories with over $83 million. $83,144,565 to be exact. Breaking that stat down a little further, there were 2,796 game focused projects started, 911 of them were successfully funded, and 561,574 people backed the various projects.

The year started off with a bang in terms of Kickstarter games with Double Fine Adventure raisingover $3 million dollars. The year was filled with many successes, such asFTL, Ouya, and the Oculus Rift.

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I’m really curious how 2013 will treat the Kickstarter gaming space. It’s started off wellwithRadio the Universeso far.

The Best of 2012[Kickstarter]

A battle scene in Battlefield 6 Open Beta

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A snap of the upcoming MESA update in PEAK

Naked Snake sneaking around in MGS Delta.

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Milla Jovovich portraying Alice in Resident Evil 2002, wearing a red dress and holding a gun in her hand.