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"Kickstarter gaming projects raised more than $83 million in 2012, it has been revealed. Gaming received the most Kickstarter funding, with more than one million users pledging $83,144,565 (\u00A351,890,678).   However, of the 2,796 Kickstarter project launches, only 911 were successfully funded, compared to more than 1,000 successful projects in the Art, Film, Music, Publishing and Theater categories. Successfully funded video game projects include Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, Project Eternity and the record-breaking Star Citizen. Recent video game successes include Peter Molyneux&amp;#039;s Godus, Elite: Dangerous and the OUYA gaming platform. Kickstarter has raised more than $340m (\u00A3211m) for entrepreneurs and projects since its launch in 2009, including the record of $10 million (\u00A36,433,000) for the Pebble smartwatch last year.  In October, it opened its doors to UK projects and developers, taking a 5% cut of successfully funded projects. &amp;gt; Kickstarter: The future of games funding? Watch the Star Citizen announcement trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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