A bit of gaming news

[skull_bearer]

Not sure how many of you know the game Psychonauts. Here's a review of it by a game commentator to give you the gist. All I can say is that it's even funnier than he makes it sound. Anyway, recently, the maker of the game, Tim Schafer, mentioned in an interview for a gaming website that he would love to make a sequel, if 'someone could led him a few million'.

Enter Notch, creator of the epic time-waster Minecraft: "How many million?"

Anyway, Notch decided to pledge something like 500,000 dollars (give or take a few zeros), and to round off the figure, they decided to ask the gaming community (many of whom regard Psychonauts as one of the great games of the medium) to donate as much as they could, with the goal of raising $400,000 in a month.

It's been two days.

It hit $65,000 in an hour.

It hit the target in eight hours.

The total is now approaching 1.5 million dollars.

I foresee that games developers around the world are currently kicking themselves in the nuts for not having jumped in while they had the chance :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Anyway, if you're a fan, or just want to help the game along and get a free copy, donate here.

Comments

[delkaetre-ni.livejournal.com]

I thought they were two separate projects - Psychonauts 2 with Notch funding, and a more traditional point-and-click adventure with Kickstarter funding? There's been a lot of Kotaku coverage of both, and they seem to keep blending together and then separating again

Separate projects would be even better, actually, because then there would be two awesome new games to look forward to!