MMO Week in Review: Star Citizen’s ambitions (December 13, 2015)

    
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Star Citizen dazzled gamers this weekend with its new alpha 2.0 version. It also crossed the $100,000,000 crowdfunding threshold, setting off a fresh wave of awe and drama. And don’t forget Trion’s MMOARPG Devilian, which looks to be the last major MMO launch of the year.

Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.

DEVILIAN LAUNCH
Devilian lands on Steam and posts server list - It's a big week for Devilian, as the action-RPG just finished up its open beta test and will be launching in a few days. Trion Worlds' posted server list for the game is notable in that the head…
OUR 2015 AWARDS… SO FAR
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Perfect Ten: The 10 best free-to-play MMORPGs - You know one of the reasons I like writing this column? Because one of these days I'm going to be able to make a list of the best characters from Transformers and Bree isn't going to…
EVE’s ‘ISIS’ ship browser gets a rename - EVE Online's Operation Frostline patch yesterday brought to light an intriguing change: a new name for the game's ship browser, the Interbus Ship Identification System, otherwise known as... ISIS. But the change wasn't made for the reason you…
MechWarrior Online stomps onto Steam - Looking to get your 'mech on with your favorite digital gaming platform? If you're a Steam user, then rejoice, for MechWarrior Online is now available for free through it as of yesterday. Piranha Games President Russ Bullock…
SWTOR server is hit by a rollback - [AL:TOR]Does your Star Wars: The Old Republic character drown his or her sorrows in the local cantina? If you're a player on the Harbinger server, you might want to start. BioWare confirmed today that the server…
Rokh offers a persistent multiplayer survival sandbox set on Mars - If H1Z1's zombies and ARK: Survival Evolved's dinos aren't your kind of survival sandbox, how about one set on the planet Mars? Darewise Entertainment and Nvizzio Creations announced new "Martian multiplayer survival game" Rokh today, surely setting…
Massively Overthinking: MMO predictions for 2016 - Now that we've all had a good laugh at the things we got wrong and marveled at the things we got right in last year's predictions, it's time to issue our MMO genre predictions for 2016.…
Heroes of the Storm adds recruit-a-friend rewards - Sometimes you put up with a lot from your friends, and sometimes they have to put up with something for you. After all, you know that some of your friends don't really care for the MOBA genre,…
Elite: Dangerous expands its ‘Horizons’ next week - Elite: Dangerous is about to get a lot bigger with the launch of Horizons next Tuesday. Frontier's David Braben announced the date on the official game forums earlier today: We have worked very hard to ensure…
Cube World resumes active development - When voxel sandbox Trove hit the pavement running, I know I wasn't alone when my first reaction was, "Damn, this looks like Cube World, only, you know, getting updated!" Now I might need to eat my words because…
Epic’s new game is a MOBA called Paragon - Epic's entering the MOBA space with Paragon, which is scheduled to hit the PC and PlayStation 4 in 2016. The studio released a brief gameplay video over the weekend that shows plenty of big, beefy sci-fi…
SWTOR climbs, FFXIV falls in Raptr’s October rankings - Raptr recently released its most played games list for October 2015. MMOish titles featured heavily in the list, with Star Wars: The Old Republic posting big gains and World of Warcraft maintaining a comfortable position in…
No Man’s Sky has neither missions nor collectibles - No Man's Sky is a big game, what with 18 quintillion planets that would take 600 billion hours for players to explore, according to Kill Screen. The website recently talked with the game's managing director Sean…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Monday’s Not So Massively for MOBA and multiplayer news, Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.

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