A board game based on "Dark Souls," a popular and fiendishly difficult fantasy-action game, raised £3,771,474, approximately $5,376,000 in US dollars. It's slated to launch in early 2017.

Kickstarter tracking site Kicktraq shows the Coolest Cooler with a very optimistic trend towards beating that, although it's very hard to project how much further it could go. Backers who ...