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Indiegogo is getting acquired by Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Indiegogo is being acquired by the board game crowdfunding platform Gamefound, which plans on “integrating Indiegogo’s global community of 38 million members with Gamefound’s state-of-the-art crowdfunding technology,” the companies announced this morning. Gamefound has built “the best tech in crowdfunding, hands down,” Indiegogo CEO Julie dePontbriand tells The Verge. “By joi

Maestro Media hits Kickstarter goal for Clash of Clash tabletop game in 30 minutes (updated)

Maestro Media formally launched its Kickstarter campaign for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid, a new tabletop game based on Supercell’s top-selling mobile game. [Update: At 9:21 a.m. Pacific time on June 17, 668 backers had already pledged $136,378], surpassing the $50,000 target easily.] The Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign is starting today (June 17), but the team is already well under way on creating the tabletop game, said Javon Frazier, CEO of Maestro Media, in a GamesBeat interview for a s

Maestro Media launches Kickstarter for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid tabletop game

Maestro Media is launching a Kickstarter for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid, a new tabletop game based on Supercell’s top-selling mobile game. The Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign is scheduled to being on June 17, but the team is already well under way on creating the tabletop game, said Javon Frazier, CEO of Maestro Media, in an interview with GamesBeat. The Clash of Clans tabletop game is expected to come out in 2026. The game’s creative director is veteran tabletop game designer Eric M. Lan

The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead

“How do you make a small fortune in tabletop gaming?” runs an old joke. The punchline, of course, is that you come to that market with a large one. The tabletop truly is a brutally challenging place to try to earn money, one which you have to be either wildly deluded or unbelievably passionate to even contemplate entering. Nevertheless, people have been making a go of it there for quite some decades by now. We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that love rather than mental illnes