The Kickstarter for Heavy Gear Assault now shows that the campaign to fund Stompy Bot Productions' upcoming mech game is canceled as of a couple of days ago, having raised a fraction of its $800K goal over most of a planned 40 day fundraiser. There is an update explaining the news, but that's for the eyes of their backers only, though with the campaign canceled they actually no longer have any backers. On Kickstarter, at least, as Joystiq notes there's a comment from the studio for public consumption saying they are continuing crowd-funding on heavygear.com, saying they "believe very strongly in resurrecting the Heavy Gear franchise and giving the fans what they want," though there's no word there about this yet. According to their statement: "We are currently evaluating other strategies to raise awareness regarding Heavy Gear." Thanks nin.