"It was a close call, but with only 38 hours left of its campaign, Tommy Tallarico’s Video Games Live: Level 3 has shot past its $250,000 goal.
Tallarico took to the VGL Twitch channel to watch the page hit its goal, extending his thanks to all the backers and answering their questions live. The Earthworm Jim composer had previously revealed that a live acoustic version of “Still Alive” from Portal would be making its way onto the album alongside a DoTA 2 arrangement courtesy of Valve composer Tim Larkin.
To get game music fans psyched for the project, Tallarico has released two orchestral arrangements: an early build of a Street Fighter II medley and an absolutely beautiful rendition of Super Mario World’s various pieces.
At the time of this writing, the project has 5,030 backers with $255,229 in pledges. The project’s deadline hits on Friday, Sept. 13 at 9:20am EDT." - Patrick Kulikowski
OVERRIDER is a new sci-fi roguelite about hoverboarding and smashing robots, and there's a Kickstarter campaign to help get it funded.
Cinnabunny and Time is Honey are currently up to be crowdfunded on Kickstarter right now. They're both adorable.
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
First they open Steam up to more AI, now they are shutting down fan projects when at one time they used to support or even give the fans jobs.
Wonder what's going on with Valve at the minute.
I mean, that might explain the Team Fortress 2 thing, because Valve might bring that to Source 2 (though I'm not sure I'd bet on that), but I can't see how Portal 64 hurts them. If anything, it's more attention to the Portal and therefore Valve/Steam.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
You got Nintendo to thank for Portal64 being taken down. As for TF2, most likely it's due to the probability of Valve working on a source 2 port themselves. It's sucks but Nintendo are the biggest pricks in the business and not letting this drag out into a huge court drama is the best decision.
