Upgrading and re releasing old games is the way to go as most companies keep pumping out shit.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation successfully funded
With over 11,000 bloodthirsty backers, Stainless Games' reboot of the infamous open-world car mayhem game is a go.
Stainless Games has reached its Kickstarter campaign target of $400,000 for Carmageddon: Reincarnation and still has seven days to go. The project, a reboot of the firm's long-running franchise that started with 1997's Carmageddon, has been successfully funded with nearly 12,000 backers pledging money towards the project.
The campaign will continue until June 16 with the team at Stainless Games now hoping to reach $600,000. Carmageddon: Reincarnation joins other successfully funded Kickstarter projects such as Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry remake, Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun Returns, Stotics' The Banner Saga, and Double Fine's adventure-game project.
Stainless Games originally announced the project back in June 2011. The firm later revealed that the developers were funding the game themselves while looking for an investment partner. In the project's Kickstarter campaign video, co-founder Neil Barnden said that the company had already contributed in excess of $300,000 towards the project and that the firm was now seeking crowd-sourced funding due to the demonstrated success of Kickstarter connecting gamers with developers.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation is currently being developed only for the PC, but according to the game's Kickstarter page, Mac and Linux versions of the game will be produced if the Kickstarter figure reaches the new goal of $600,000. Now that the project is completely funded, Stainless Games has stated that Carmageddon: Reincarnation is planned for a Q1 2013 release.
26 comments
Did DoubleFine even complete their game yet? It was suppose to have been completed at the end of last year I thought.
Carmageddon 2 and Age of Empires 2 were the first games I ever played on PC. I just nostalgia'd all over the place, hand me a rag.
Soo... when do I get those miniature Eagles? I need 'em to run over some Lego men, y' know, properly.
1 Like I am happy that my name will appear on computers (and hopefully consoles) all over the world, in the game's credits. Yes, I donated $15.
You should keep giving them money if you want to see the Mac and Linux verions though. About the console versions, I think they said that they will look into it after the PC version is done.
2 Like I simply loved Carmageddon, the half-hearted, arcade style and total mayhem. Got to love splitting the cars in halves!
Keeping the tried and tested recipe of Carmageddon 1 while having next generation graphics and physics AND keeping, or even increasing the gore should make a hell of a game!
1 Like Carmageddon I and II were awesome, 3 ehh, not so much. I still play 2 on my XP disk (tri-booted system) XP, Vista and Win7. I'd be happy if they just updated the graphics and left it like 2 was. My fav was the Jupiter gravity powerup, because you could take out that huge dump truck with it.
I remember hitting explosives with my car in CARMA 2 to the point it could have been a tent on a camp ground :D Great game looking forward to this!
4 Like Ahh, good old Carmageddon. It's Deathrace 2000...only in a video game.
I'll never get tired of the sound of screaming pixel people as I ran them over with my car. So many good hours of fun in that game.
This comment has been deleted
2 Like It's like all my old friends are back! And they've grown up. and they're doing things with a couple thousand dollars that gigantic publishers cannot do with tens of millions of dollars.
Conversation powered by Livefyre
Content you might like…
-
Carmageddon dev raises $3.5 million
Investment from Bullfrog Productions founder will allow Stainless Games to bring Reincarnation also to next-gen platforms.
- Mar 20, 2013
Users who looked at this article also looked at these content items.
Hot Stories
Newsmakers
-
EA and Disney team up for Star Wars games
As part of multiyear exclusive arrangement, DICE and Visceral will work on new "core" Star Wars games. Full Story
- Posted May 7, 2013 4:28 am SST
-
Assassin's Creed creator claims he was fired
[UPDATE] Patrice Desilets says Ubisoft terminated his position today and did not allow him to collect personal belongings. Full Story
- Posted May 8, 2013 1:44 am SST
Featured Stories
-
Study: Violent games can desensitize players
New research finds frequent exposure to violent games can have numbing effect on teenagers, though no cause-and-effect relationship proven. Full Story
- Posted May 10, 2013 9:17 pm SST
-
World of Warcraft subs fall to 8.3 million
Subscriber base for aging MMO dips 1.3 million in three months; Activision Blizzard posts $456 million profit on $1.32 billion in revenue for Q1. Full Story
- Posted May 9, 2013 4:18 am SST
-
EA extends FIFA licensing agreement to 2022
"FIFA continues to be very strong," says EA, which has been making FIFA games since 1993. Full Story
- Posted May 8, 2013 5:19 pm SST
-
No multiplayer in new Wolfenstein
MachineGames' upcoming shooter will be single-player-only experience. Full Story
- Posted May 8, 2013 9:49 pm SST
-
Ubisoft: PlayStation 4 like a 'perfect jewel'
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag producer says Sony has created a compelling piece of technology and it is up to designers to make most of it. Full Story
- Posted May 10, 2013 12:37 am SST
Submit News
Related Game
Related Games
Recent News
-
NPD: Injustice: Gods Among Us April's top seller in US
NetherRealm's DC brawler the best-selling title in region last month; overall industry sales slide 25 percent; Xbox 360 sales hit 130,000.
