Crowd-funding has exploded this year, thanks in no small part to Kickstarter, but even games that meet their funding goals will have to get it out to the fans. EA's Origin service is taking a generous step in that direction, by waiving distribution fees for the first 90 days on any game that has been successfully crowd-funded.

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Another Kickstarter project has popped up to revive a classic PC series, and this one is asking for a doozy of a funding goal. A proposed sequel to Conquest: Frontier Wars (subtitled "Vyrium Uprising") is asking for a whopping $675,000 in only 22 days.

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