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 ...

A devious new scam is sweeping Facebook. Scammers find an interesting or popular product from crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo, rip the item’s details, photos, and videos, and push ...

Yesterday we learned that Kickstarter is trying to hire someone to make sure scammy crapdoesn’t slip onto the crowdfunding page. Not a moment too soon: One of the grandpappies of all pseudo-science ...

"Seth Westphal," the creator and cofounder of "Little Monster Productions." (kickstarter.com) The man behind the Kickstarter campaign for a game that raised a few thousand dollars before being ...

It's true. You need to wrap your keys in aluminum foil to protect your car from being broken into, but do you need a tin foil hat to protect your head from government surveillance? One new Kickstarter ...

I have the process down to a tee. I start by browsing Kickstarter, looking for projects with active campaigns. There's no specific selection criteria. Perhaps I find one that's just gone live, or one ...

When Katy Perry’s infamous Left Shark awkwardly danced on stage during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, Laura Sirikul’s first thought was: How can I get one of those costumes? Days later, she ...

Kickstarter fraudsters hawking Kobe beef jerky were just minutes away from completing the biggest-ever outright scam on the crowdfunding site last week. A campaign titled "KOBE RED - 100% JAPANESE ...

The Onion, as only The Onion can, exposed the cesspool of faux-inventions of Kickstarter by calling the folks who start Kickstarter projects, Internet criminals who “bilk friends and families out of ...

Crowdfunding website Kickstarter is investigating claims that money given to a tech project was instead used to build a house for one of its co-founders David Boe. The co-founder of the Peachy Printer ...

An interesting project hit Kickstarter not too long ago, offering buyers a breakthrough innovation in shaving. The sci-fi Skarp razor supposedly packs a laser that’s able to give users an even better, ...

The wildly successful Doublefine Kickstarter has led to the proposal of a number of dream games, many of which are on their way to becoming a reality. But one such project sounded too good to be true ...