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It took six hours for the Playtonic Games' spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie to accomplish the feat, beating the previous Kickstarter record of seven hours held by Torment: Tides of Numenara, as spotted by a NeoGAF poster.To date, the Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter campaign has earned over $1.3 million USD, with 44 days to go.By comparison, the Veronica Mars movie raised $1 million in 4 hours and 24 minutes and the Pebble Time hit the same dollar amount in just 30 minutes, according to Statista , an online statistics portal.Yooka-Laylee was funded in 40 minutes , meeting its $270 thousand goal. The lead characters Yooka and Laylee were revealed a day before Playtonic, a studio comprised of the creative team behind Banjo-Kazooie, kicked off its crowdfunding campaign.In other related news, Rare is reportedly ready to show it's next game at E3 . However, there's no word on what that game might be.

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