Thursday, August 29, 2013

Allegations fly in mysterious Ouya crowdfunding scandal


All week, Ouya's "Free the Games" program has faced allegations of crowdfunding fraud — but today a Polygon report finds evidence that the project owners are just as mystified as everyone else. The program, which offers matching funds from Ouya to games that clear a $25,000 threshold on Kickstarter, came under fire when gamers noticed big-ticket donations from mysterious first-time backers, many of whom had used stock photos as their profile image. The suspicion is that developers (or their associates) could be inflating donation totals to get more matching funds from Ouya. But when Polygon caught up with one such developer, the team behind Elementary, My Dear Holmes, they seemed equally mystified. It leaves the question: if the...


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