Ouya, the makers of the Android-based home gaming console of the same name that was released last month, hopes to influence game development on the platform with big wads of cash. OUYA today announced the $1 million Free The Games Fund, which promises to match the funding amount received by developers who fund their games via Kickstarter.

Developer inXile Entertainment and publisher Deep Silver signed a distribution deal for inXile’s crowd-funded computer role-playing game Wasteland 2. inXile is developing Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera, both funded via highly successful Kickstarter campaigns. inXile Entertainment says that this deal allows the studio to focus on the creative aspects of developing the game, while Deep Silver will handle the retail release of the game and the physical good fulfillment for the Kickstarter backers.

Code Hero, a game that promised to "teach you how to code," managed to raise $170,000 on Kickstarter, but since going beyond its funding goals, it hasn't been smooth sailing for the game's developers or the people who backed it. The trouble began in December 2012 when Code Hero developer Primer Labs announced that it had run out of money. In February it was looking for ways to compensate or reward backers.

An indie film maker wants to put a spotlight on the company that created some of the greatest PC adventure game franchises in the game industry's history - and it is asking for the community's help. A new Kickstarter has been launched by Molotov Angel Productions seeking to raise $125,000 for a documentary about the history of Sierra On-Line.

Either backers will understand or they will be furious when they hear that Double Fine's Tim Schafer says that The Broken Age still requires more capitol in order to be developed. The adventure game that managed to raise $3 million on Kickstarter (in a campaign that was only seeking $400,000) apparently has to turn to other sources in order to continue.

Double Fine's latest crowdfunding efforts on Kickstarter for the fantasy strategy game Massive Chalice ended with a total of $1.2 million raised. The company created the Kickstarter page in May with the hope of raising $725,000. That goal was surpassed in early June, and as of this week Massive Chalice raised almost double what Double Fine was seeking. With funding secured, Project lead Brad Muir is putting together a separate team within Double Fine to create the game.

Realizing that some of the early adopters of its Android-based home console that helped fund the Ouya on Kickstarter have not yet received their units as promised, two of the company's top officers took to the Kickstarter page to apologize and promise to improve the situation as soon as possible.

We almost missed this one! Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium Games’ Star Citizen has managed to raise an impressive $10 Million in crowd funding through a combination of its Kickstarter campaign and through its own crowd-funding efforts on its web site and via PayPal. Most of the money, $7.8 million, has been raised on the Star Citizen site. It took the company a mere eight months to raise the money too. Back in February the game hit the $8 million mark.

Double Fine's strategy game Massive Chalice, which has sailed past $847,000 in funding via its Kickstarter campaign, will include same-sex marriage options, according to lead developer Brad Muir. In an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun Muir explains how the community helped convince them that it was a good option to have in the game:

For many gamers, Eternal Darkness is their absolute favorite Gamecube game.  Like Killer Instinct and Beyond Good & Evil, it's one of those games that fans have spent years clamoring for a sequel.

Precursor Games has decided to cancel its Kickstarter crowd funding campaign for its spiritual successor to Silicon Knights' Eternal Darkness - Shadow of the Eternals. With less than three weeks to go before the campaign ended Precursor was only able to raise a little over $300,000 of the $1.5 million it was asking for.

Precursor CEO Paul Caporicci explained the move recently in an update to the project's Kickstarter page.

Jeremy Snead, creative director at Mediajuice announced that Sean Astin will appear in Video Games: The Movie!, the documentary film about video games crowd funded by a very successful Kickstarter campaign. Astin, who considers himself a hardcore gamer, is best known for his roles in Goonies and The Lord of the Rings films (and who reprised his role as Samwise for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North videogame).

Double Fine's latest Kickstarter campaign, Massive Chalice has been fully funded. The developer was seeking $725,000 for the new fantasy-themed strategy game. after less than a week of going live the Kickstarter has managed to raise $743,919 from 20,264 backers with 23 more days to go. Obviously you can expect to see some stretch goals popping up very soon so that they can continue to raise funds for the development of the game.

Double Fine has launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a game called "Massive Chalice," which it describes as a tactical fantasy strategy game for PC (Windows, Linux, and Mac) from the creators of Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, and Iron Brigade. The project is being headed up by Brad Muir, who created the excellent Iron Brigade.

Square Enix's new president Yosuke Matsuda said during a financial results briefing this week that the company will consider new methods to improve "asset turnover" and change the way its products are presented to customers during development cycle periods. Matsuda believes that consumers needed to be brought into the process of game development to ensure that a given game title will meet their expectations. Some of the ideas he has for fulfilling this include using elements found in crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and methods Steam employs within Steam Greenlight.

Speaking to Develop, Precursor Games CEO and founder Paul Caporicci told the publication that the statements in the terms and conditions document related to its crowdfunding of Shadow of the Eternals were from a "boiler plate" document taken from another site.

Even as the makers of the Ouya console (seem to) struggle to fill the orders of those individuals who backed them in their successful Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign (to the tune of $8.3 million), the company behind the Android-based console announces that they have secured $15 million in venture capital financing and that it will move its retail release from early to late June. The $15 million in funding is from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the Mayfield Fund, Nvidia, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners.

S.O.S. Gamers has launched a crowd-funding campaign for Get Schooled, an initiative that supplies underprivileged schools and community centers in the New York City area with access to educational technology including computers, calculators, and recreational items such as video game consoles and games.

Indie developer Archimadness seeks $30,000 to fund its social city building game Metropoly via Kickstarter. The developer describes the game as a mix of games its members grew up playing in the 80's including board games like The Game of Life and Monopoly mixed with elements from the classic Sierra game Jones in the Fast Lane, and a dash of The Sims.

Phosphor Games has decided to put its ongoing bid to fund its super hero themed open world game Project Awakened on hold for the time being. The developer started the private funding initiative after it came close to funding the game via Kickstarter. Though that campaign failed, the developer noticed that thousands of gamers backed the project and decided to try again via its web site for the game.

Digital Eel's Rich Carlson let us know that the Kickstarter for the next chapter in its rogue-like space adventure game, Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars, managed to raise $36,661 from 1,764 backers. Digital Eel was originally asking for $30,000, but managed to rake in a little extra.

GTFO, a documentary about sexism and harassment in the video games industry and within the gaming community has surpassed its funding goal of $20,000. With four more days to go, the documentary has managed to raise $23,829 from just 882 backers on Kickstarter. The documentary is being put together by New York-based filmmaker Shannon Sun-Higginson, who describes herself as a casual gamer.

City State Entertainment announced that it managed to raise well over $2 million in crowd funding for its upcoming MMORPG project, Camelot Unchained. The "TriRealm" RvR-focused MMORPG will also receive $3 million in additional funding which includes $2 million from studio co-founder and online game industry pioneer Mark Jacobs. Pledges are still being accepted via PayPal on the game's official site.

Cloud Imperium Games announced that its upcoming space simulation game Star Citizen has raised over $9 million in crowd-funding, raising a cool $1 million since the middle of February. The game, being developed by Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, managed to raise $2.1 million during its Kickstarter campaign, with the rest being raised via the game' s official site.

Chucklefish's upcoming Starbound has managed to rake in over $1 million in pre-orders, the developer announced via its blog.  The game which is a Terraria-like 2D adventure RPG with a sci-fi theme, hit that milestone less than a month after the developer put up a tiered pre-order program to sell the game early.

With just four more days to go until its Kickstarter ends, Digital Eel's campaign to fund its next game in the Strange Adventure series has met its funding goal: the game has raised $31,240 on its original funding goal of $30,000 from 1,449 backers.

Filmmaker Shannon Sun-Higginson has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary on sexism and harassment in the video games industry called GTFO. The New York City-based filmmaker is looking to raise $20,000 to continue work on the film, with money going towards shooting expenses, travel costs, money to pay crew members, post-production expenses, licensing rights for any gaming footage or images appearing in the final film, and to create promotional materials.

The days of worrying about what mass consumers at big retailers like Wal-Mart think are over for his company, says inXile CEO Brian Fargo. After successfully funding two major role-playing game projects - Wasteland II and Torment: Tides of Numenera - on Kickstarter and through other payment methods, the gatekeepers are gone. Or more appropriately, the gatekeepers are now the players who actually want the kind of role-playing game that inXile wants to make and are willing to pay in advance to make it happen.

The effort to crowd source the purchase of the Homeworld series from THQ has failed after the sponsor of the campaign - developer TeamPixel - learned that the license has been bought by someone else. The campaign began in January on Kickstarter, with TeamPixel promising to secure the license and make Homeworld 3 for PC, Mac and Linux, and Homeworld Touch for iOS and Android. But someone else now owns the license, according to an update on the Kickstarter page:

inXile Entertainment's isometric role-playing game managed to raise $4.1 million at the close of its Kickstarter campaign this weekend, making it the most well-funded video game in Kickstarter's history. The Kickstarter, which ended last night, generated a total of $4,188,927 from 74,405 backers. That is 455 percent more than the $900,000 that the developer asked for at the start.