Interesting Links for 21-06-2014

• By allowing Amazon to put a lock on its products, Hachette has allowed Amazon to usurp its relationship with its customers
  (tags: drm Amazon )
• Duck Stampede! No, Really.
  (tags: ducks video )
• World Gets 22% of Electricity From Renewable Energy
  (tags: renewables energy )
• He Would Never: Thoughts on Game of Thrones's Fourth Season
  (tags: gameofthrones rape )
• My favourite Raccoon thing ever.
  (tags: raccoon funny )

Making games is harder than you think. Particularly if you work in the games industry.

Kickstarters Backed for Games:

Game	Estimated Delivery Date	Status
Carmageddon	Feb 2013	Beta
Clang	Feb 2013	Abandoned (after they announced that they basically lied about how much money they needed)
Defense Grid 2	Dec 2012	Original deliverable shipped, complete game still being worked on
Planetary Annihilation	Jul 2013	Beta
Project Eternity	April 2014	Beta-ish
Maia	June 2013	Alpha
Sui Generis	May 2014	Alpha
Godus	September 2013	Beta.  Undergoing a massive revamp to make it less shit
War for the Overworld	August 2013	Beta
Scale	December 2014	In development
Frog Fraction 2	September 2015	Froggy. Fractionated

So, yes. It seems that nobody in the games industry has a grasp on project estimation.