CEO & Founder of Epiphany Labs, Tommy Joseph, is the creator of the Epiphany onE Puck Kickstarter Scam. Tommy Joseph stole over $133,000 from 1,175 backers and has yet to deliver any rewards. Tommy has refused to respond to backers or even ship regular rewards such as t-shirts and stickers. Since funding ended, Mr. Joseph has […]
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Epiphany Labs is the company behind the Epiphany onE Puck Kickstarter Scam. CEO & Founder, Tommy Joseph stole over $133,000 from 1,175 backers and has yet to deliver any rewards. Tommy has refused to respond to backers or even ship regular rewards such as t-shirts and stickers. Since funding ended, Mr. Joseph has not posted one […]
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The Washington State Attorney General has filed suit against a card game developer who failed to deliver on his Kickstarter rewards. In September of 2012, Nashville-based Altius Management started a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of a retro-horror themed playing card deck called Asylum Playing Cards. After raising $25,146, far more than their $15,000 […]
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The failure of the Yogventures Kickstarter has taken what may well be the first step toward ugliness with an assertion by the developer, Winterkewl Games, that $150,000 of the money raised went to Yogscast, which was to use it to create physical rewards and hire a lead programmer for the project. But roughly two-thirds of that amount […]
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The developers behind Kickstarter-funded video game Areal are calling out journalists following accusations that the studio’s Kickstarter campaign is a scam. Areal has been at the center of controversy since the project’s start on the crowdfunding website. While developer West Games claims to be made up of staff from STALKER, the validity of this claim is said to be “overestimated,” Eurogamer has reported […]
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There’s been a surge in funding and, three days from ending, controversial Kickstarter campaign Areal has reached its $50,000 goal. Funding had stalled in the mid-thirty-thousands for days, the total standing at around £37,000 on Friday. But this morning the total is more than $64,000. How – what happened at the weekend? Did the brief and basic gameplay […]
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What is it like to work at the website Kickstarter, a global privately funded crowdfunding company? According to its website, “It’s fun!” They are a “friendly group of people” who “do a lot of things together: happy hours, trips, workshops, movies, lunch, and a lot of laughing.” About half of the 108 employees works on […]
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Hi, My name is Jennifer Crowther and I was kickscammed. As I have delved further and further into how Kickstarter handles kickscammed projects I’ve been shocked. They do absolutely nothing! They send out meaningless emails full of empty words. I created a group for my individual project, but realized this was a much larger problem […]
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FORMER internet porn baron Jon Atherton has been charged with defrauding mates of more than $1 million after plans for a Japanese ski-field development went belly up. The Sunday Mail can reveal that Atherton, 49, is facing accusations he “dishonestly induced” four Brisbane men to give $1.6 million in 2007-08 before he withdrew money from […]
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What do you do when your video game Kickstarter project is shut down at the last minute because it was such an obvious scam? Apparently, you start your very own crowdfunding site and then feature your new and improved video game scam there instead. West Games tried to raise just $50,000 to build the “spiritual […]
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