Since its launch three years ago, Kick-starter, a website on which people who want to make things can ask other people to pay for their proj ects, has offered hope to penniless musicians, artists and designers. But what the world's modern Medicis really want to bankroll is new video games. Of the ten most-funded Kickstarter projects, five are related to video games (see chart). Three-"Double Fine Adventure", "Wasteland 2" and "Shadowrun Returns"-are actual games. Two are bits of gamer hardware: an open-source games console called the ouya, and a virtual-reality headset called the Oculus Rift.
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