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Update #14 · May 28, 2012 · 37 comments

AFTERNOON ALL! 

nobby here, with today's (brief) Update. Well, while we're all recovering from the fantastic MILESTONE SUNDAY (and trying to think of a way to confess that we drank all your money and need some more), I just thought I'd pop a message out to ALL of our SWELLING RANKS!! Amazing - there's now OVER 11,000 of you guys, and you continue to advance the project total well past the $400k and on towards our Stretch Goal of $600k. It's FANTASTIC, and we really appreciate the amount that you're all contributing - not just monetarily, but in adding to the suggestions, comments and conversations on the Comments sections, and in continuing to spread the word amongst your networks of family, friends, gaming fraternities, forums and out across the Wide Wild World of the Internets... We're so thankful to you ALL.

The Comments section has been seeing a spate of posts that link to articles about us, you and the phenomenal growing success story of Carmageddon: Reincarnation on Kickstarter. Thanks to the guys who are providing this ongoing service. So I thought I'd collate the links and also post them here in the Update, for anyone who hadn't seen the Comments, and would like to check out the coverage:

Thanks again, CarmaFans! Tomorrow we'll be back with... more News! 

EDIT: Judicator & Tonrac posted more links, international coverage. THANKS guys!

Italian C:R KS: 

International C:R KS: 

 French forum 

News in French sites: 

And from Mikhail Shibanov:

Russian sites news: 

UPDATE: More coverage in the UK today:

Not only did I get an interview this morning with Isle of Wight Radio, I also got a follow-up call from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18251460 

And someone here just pointed out that the Daily Mail (a British newspaper of the "Ban This Sick Filth" ilk) is banging on about us again!:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2151178/Killing-kicks-Bloody-new-videogame-sequel-reward-players-running-innocent-pedestrians.html 

Marvellous! 

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      Creator Ben W on June 6, 2012

      Wonderful to see the Daily Mail making exactly the same mistake they made 15 years ago. Their breathless indignation provided the sort of publicity you just can't buy and it surely helped to drive the original game's massive success, yet they kindly provided this priceless advertising for free. And now they've done it again, so by my count that's two good things the Mail has achieved in its long and tedious history.

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      Creator Chris Wilson on May 31, 2012

      Great to see that Carma is upsetting Daily Mail readers once again!

      $50 pledge done.

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      Creator Pedasn - "Armikrog." Backer on May 29, 2012

      ahahaha... jaja... der standard hat ja jetzt eine eigene spieleecke.... ich hoffe die promoten auch noch die TWO GUYS

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      Creator Judicator on May 29, 2012

      Page updated with links by Phillip Zach and roxor.
      You can check it out here: http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showpost.php…

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      Creator Philipp Zach on May 29, 2012

      The site where I came across (Austria):
      http://derstandard.at/1336698111300/Kickstarter-Spieler-finanzieren-Carmageddon-Remake

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      Creator James Cleveland on May 29, 2012

      Oooh I do hope we get Linux support!

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      Creator Judicator on May 29, 2012

      Updated links list with Yitzchak Schwarz. Here's the page: http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showpost.php…

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      Creator Yitzchak Schwarz on May 29, 2012

      You might as well add http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/05/carmaggeddon-sequel-could-crash-onto-linux
      It's the reason I pledged $30.

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      Creator Edward Ted Wilson on May 28, 2012

      I have a hunch you guys are just teasing us with the threats of no 'in-car' cam, but in case you were serious, consider using some of that extra $$??

      can't wait to whip the Caddy Fat Cat

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      Creator Steve Fish on May 28, 2012

      I'm doubling my pledge just to help make it to $600K. Who else is with me?

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      Creator Ahmed Al-Numairy on May 28, 2012

      Carmegeddon has been a series very close to my heart. I still have the original cd and packaging for the US and UK version of Carmageddon 1 with the splat pack, Carmageddon 2 and the really bad Carmageddon 3 TDR. I was so sad when I heard it was developed by torus games. Thank you for bringing back one of my favorite games of all times! I used to play it on my pentium 133 mhz with a 4mb voodoo graphic card! How times have changed! All the best developing this game! May i get my GOG voucher so I can play Carmageddon 1 all over again! I won't use Electric blue to zap all the peds! Honest!

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      Creator BFishY on May 28, 2012

      What now? I assume after Kickstarter is finished you guys will go into your cave break all contact and resurface closer to Feb 2013? :o

      I really don't want that date to be pushsed back D:

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      Creator MemoryKill on May 28, 2012

      I reckon if you only reach 500k+, that just purely adding the mac/linux support would actually give you such a community boost and backing, not that ive ever really used either for gaming, im just saying, the MORE communities behind you, the better!

      So goodluck onthe road to 600k! 9 days left, anything can happen!

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      Creator Bruno V. on May 28, 2012

      A brief article in French from a Linux-centered site: http://www.jeuxlinux.fr/f1276-Carmageddon_Reincarnation_peut_etre_pour_Linux.html

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      Creator György Vilmos Szabó on May 28, 2012

      Here you can find an other hungarian article:
      http://gamers.hu/sikeres-volt-a-carmageddon-kickstarter
      Everyone loves CARMAGEDDON! ;)

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      Creator Stephen Watson on May 28, 2012

      I reckon we will go flying into 600k!! It's gained huge momentum in the past few days. If you get it to 700k can you make it in 3D? :O If you do I'll go out and buy a 3D monitor.

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      Creator Da Mayor on May 28, 2012

      What, really? You're trying to figure out how to break the news that you've drunk away all your kickstarter funding? You're STAINLESS! How could we expect any LESS from you lot??? (I'm just disappointed there isn't video footage of SIM pissed out of her gourd...)

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      Creator TwIsTeDMiNd on May 28, 2012

      @Stainless You forgot mention for french community this coverage article of the kickstarter campaign funded: http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2012/00058751-carmageddon-reincarnation-sur-les-chapeaux-de-roue.htm

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      Creator Andreas-Johann Ulvestad on May 28, 2012

      Fingers crossed for Linux version.. me and several others have pledged for that :-)

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      Creator Vitaly on May 28, 2012

      I hope they'll get it right! http://xkcd.com/323/

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      Creator ThomasN on May 28, 2012

      Stainless understands the art of drunken coding I guess ;)

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      Creator Pablo de Andres on May 28, 2012

      Please arrive to 600000$. I want it on linux ;)

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      Creator Vanish on May 28, 2012

      \o/

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      Creator C.S.Strowbridge on May 28, 2012

      Hopefully the coverage will boost the Kickstarter campaign even further. I really want to see them his the stretch goal.

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      Creator Daniel Galvani on May 28, 2012

      \o/

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      Creator Leo Wakelin on May 28, 2012

      \o/

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      Creator Isaac Hussain on May 28, 2012

      :D-\-<

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      Creator Jimday on May 28, 2012

      neat!

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