Failing Kung-fu Superstar Kickstarter proves hardcore gamers' "hatred" for motion con

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Kung-fu Superstar, the Kung-fu simulation game that fuses motion controls and traditional gamepad controls, launched a Kickstarter late last month with a fancy video and an endorsement from none other than Peter Molyneux himself. Now, with six days to go, only £31,000 has been raised - nearly £170,000 shy of the target.
It is failing, its creator Kostas Zarifis, who worked at Lionhead for five years on Fable 2, Fable 3 and Fable: The Journey before leaving in May 2011 to found his own Guildford independent developer Kinesthetic Games, admits. But why?

Zarifis has a number of theories. Some are to do with his game and some are to do with Kickstarter itself. But chief among them is what he describes a

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