The IndieGoGo campaign for Operation Ninja S.T.A.R. has managed to raise $2,547 of its $17,500 goal, with 26 more days to go. Launched last week, Operation Ninja S.T.A.R. seeks to raise funds to closely examine a patent owned by Treehouse Avatar Technologies to see if there is any evidence that the invention existed prior to the patent application. Their ultimate goal is to render the patent invalid.

Capcom has put the brakes on a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign for an unlicensed Ghost 'N Goblins game. Phantasm Studios' campaign is now the subject of an intellectual property dispute initiated by Capcom, and has been shutdown. The Kickstarter page for the campaign now features a DMCA notice from Capcom.

After only a day of being live, a Kickstarter campaign for a Mega Man Board game has managed to get fully funded. The board game, which secured an official license from Capcom, has raised $167,796 from 1,369 backers - well over its initial goal of $70,000. The campaign has 37 more days left, so expect a lot of stretch goals to be added.

Texas-based board game company Jasco Games initially ran the Kickstarter to make the board game a lot better:

MidBoss Games has managed to get its point-and-click adventure game Read Only Memories fully funded via Kickstarter. The crowdfunding campaign ended yesterday, raising $64,378 from 1,790 by the time it closed. The developers were originally seeking $62,064. Details on how you can still pledge (via PayPal - until the end of this year) can be found on the game's Kickstarter page.

Backers of Richard Garriott's and Portalarium's online-focused RPG Shroud of the Avatar, will get a taste of the game beginning today with the launch of Shroud of the Avatar Release 1. The early version of the game's client will allow players to log in to their accounts, download the client, create a character and begin to explore the streets of Owl's Head, the game's first town open for business. The release comes nine months after the project was announced by Portalarium in early March.

inXile Entertainment announced that crowd-funding backers of its upcoming game Wasteland 2, can grab a code right now and try the game out before everyone else. InXile announced that backers can log-in to their Ranger Center accounts and grab a Steam key now. The game is currently only available for Windows at the moment, but will be made available on Mac and Linux at some point after some more vigorous testing of those builds occurs.

Inspired by the software patent trolling efforts of patent house Treehouse Avatar Technologies, a new IndieGoGo campaign launched today seeks to raise funds for a project that will ultimately help the little guy. The project is called Operation Ninja S.T.A.R., and seeks to raise $17,500 to closely examine a patent owned by Treehouse Avatar Technologies to see if there is any evidence that the invention existed prior to the patent application. Their ultimate goal is to render the patent invalid.

With only three more days to go, MidBoss Games' Read Only Memories is $10,000 from reaching its funding goal. As of this writing, the cyberpunk-themed point-and-click adventure game has managed to raise $52,074 of its $62,064 goal from 1,139 backers with just three more days to go before its funding goal deadline on Kickstarter comes to a close.

With only ten more days to go, MidBoss Games' Read Only Memories is inching towards its funding goal. As of this writing, the cyberpunk-themed point-and-click adventure game has managed to raise $42,951 of its $62,064 goal from 783 backers with a little over a week left to go before its funding goal deadline on Kickstarter comes to a close.

Cloud Imperium's space combat and exploration simulation game continues to rake in an almost obscene amount of cash. Star Citizen is being spearheaded by Chris Roberts, the man behind the hit space game Wing Commander and Privateer.

It is because of his involvement with those beloved classics that this game has been able to surpass $33 million in funding. In turn this new funding milestone has unlocked the Anvil Carrack and the Drake Herald ships for backers, according to an announcement by developer Chris Roberts made in an official blog post.

Read Only Memories has raised a little under half of its Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign goal. The sci-fi themed, old-school stylized adventure game from MidBoss Games has raised $29,395 of its $62,064 goal from 627 backers with 17 more days to go.

Extend Studios has teamed up with American McGee’s Spicy Horse for new backers-only reward tier related to the Kickstarter for its puzzle-platforming game So Many Me. By paying for any pledge level of $10 or more, backers can get the Spicy Horse Costume Pack.

Read Only Memories has raised a little over a third of what it is seeking in its Kickstarter campaign. Launched last week, the crowd funding campaign for the sci-fi themed adventure game from MidBoss Games has raised $21,840 of its $62,064 goal from 489 backers with 24 more days to go.

A crowd-funding campaign has been launched for an interesting puzzle game called So Many Me. So Many Me is described by developer Extend Studios as a 2D puzzle-platformer inspired by the best games in the genre and its own games like A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda (Steam and XBLA) and Jigsaw Mansion (iPad).

Former Rockstar Games developer Navid Khonsari and multimedia company iNK Stories have launched a crowd-funding campaign for the politically-themed action adventure game, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. Set during the 1979 revolution that saw Iran's leadership shift to a hard-line Islamic state, 1979 Revolution promises a game with a mature narrative, new media storytelling elements (historical assets, documentary content, graphic novel cinematics) and suspenseful and engaging gameplay.

The men and women behind the GaymerX convention have formed a new indie development studio called MidBoss Games and have announced their very first game: Read Only Memories. MidBoss Games has also launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign today to raise funds for ongoing development.

G3 Studios and Guido Henkel have launched the Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore, a new first-person, party-based role-playing game with a focus on story and character development. The game is being developed by G3 Studios and overseen by Guido Henkel, who has worked on such RPG hits as Planescape: Torment, the Realms of Arkania Trilogy, Fallout II, and many other games.

Double Fine Productions announced during its "Day of Devs" event in San Francisco on Friday that it is collaborating with Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward on the upcoming adventure game Broken Age.

Ward will be voicing one of the characters in Broken Age, which Double Fine revealed alongside a video showing him in the studio recording lines and improvising with Tim Schafer. Double Fine previously announced that Hynden Walch (the voice of Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time) Jack Black, and Jennifer Hale will also play characters in the game.

G3 Studios wants to get out in front of an upcoming crowd-funding campaign to bankroll its upcoming PC role-playing game, Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore. Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore is described as a first-person, party-based role-playing game with a heavy emphasis on story and character development. A prototype of the game is already in development by G3 Studios (using the Unity engine), and veteran role-playing game designer/producer Guido Henkel is leading the project.

A book and DVD project called "Wrestling With Pixels: The World Tour Of Wrestling Games" is seeking $18,000 to fund further interviews with game industry luminaries and professional wrestling stars to fully explore the history of the wrestling video games genre.

Elemental-Labs and its partner acttil, llc. let us know that the Kickstarter campaign for the sci-fi themed action JRPG REBORN has been put on hold. The campaign had until Nov. 8 to raise its funding goal of $200,000, but only managed to raise $52,584 before organizers decided to pull the plug.

In an update to the Kickstarter page, the company said that it pulled the plug because it wants to tweak many aspects of the Kickstarter campaign and relaunch it next month:

A Kickstarter campaign to create a sequel to the popular Sega Genesis football game Mutant Football League has ended on an unsuccessful note. The crowd-funding campaign launched by the franchise's original creator Michael Mendheim ended yesterday, raising only $141,821 of the $750,000 goal. Had the game been funded, it would have launched in the summer of 2015 for PC, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, iOS, and Android.

Obviously Mendheim was disappointed in the results.

Crowd funding service Kickstarter will soon be available in Australia and New Zealand, allowing projects of all shapes and sizes to pitch to the public at large. Kickstarter will officially launch in these new regions on November 13 and those interested in starting projects to be ready for the service's launch can get started now.

Adventure game sequel The Ballads of Reemus 2 is in the home stretch of its crowd funding efforts with just three days to go and less than $1,300 shy of being successfully funded. The game has managed to raise $13,702 CAD of its $15,000 CAD goal.

Developed by Hamilton, Canada-based indie developer Jay Ziebarth, the game is a follow-up to The Ballads of Reemus, a 2D adventure romp with a wacky storyline about a medieval exterminator and his loyal purple bear sidekick Liam as they battle giant insects in a quest to legitimize "extermination" as a heroic career path.

Former Valve Inventor Jeri Ellsworth and programmer Rick Johnson have launched a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to raise money for CastAR, their take on augmented and virtual reality glasses.

Gorilla Press Games has launched a crowd-funding campaign for Legend of Lancer, a game it describes as a "2D Metroidvania" for PC, Mac, and Linux that focuses on the art of jousting. Inspired by the writing of J.R.R Tolkien, Miguel de Cervantes, George R.R. Martin, and T.H. White, Legend of the Lancer is a 2D action-adventure game that focuses on the balance between telling an interesting story and providing players with compelling gameplay.

Publisher acttil announced that the Kickstarter campaign for Reborn has launched today. Developed by Elemental-Labs, Reborn is a real-time 3D action role-playing game with a heavy focus on weapons and cyborg augmentations. The game is set in the future sounding Neo-Tokyo in the year 2188 where a futuristic version of the legendary Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto battles an evil corporation.

A crowdfunding campaign for a sequel to the classic console game James Pond has been canceled by Chris Sorrell, one of the game's original designers. The Kickstarter was launched last month by rights holder Gameware Europe, but with 11 days to go in the campaign it became clear that the crowd-funding campaign might not meet its goal - raising just £16,000 of its £100,000 target. The low figure was enough for Sorrell to give up on the Kickstarter campaign.

River City Ransom: Underground reached its initial $180,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. The game still has a few stretch goals, but not too much time left to meet them. If the stretch goal of $280,000 is met, the developers will port the game to PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. If they can hit the $320,000 mark, they promise to bring it to Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, and if they manage to get to $360,000 they'll port it to Xbox One.

Precursor Games has put Shadow of the Eternals on hold indefinitely. In a post on the Precursor Games forums, Dennis Dyack, who helped co-found the studio with former colleagues from Silicon Knights, explained that both the game and the team will be taking a bit of a break.

"For those who are not aware, we all worked on this project as a labor of love and self financed 100 per cent of everything for a over a year to try to make Shadow of the Eternals a reality," he said.