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Indie MMO Sacrament follows failed Kickstarter with Patreon bid

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Indie studio Ferocity Unbound Core Studios, the group behind hardcore sandpark MMO Sacrament, has today kicked off a Patreon campaign designed to raise money for...
DCUO

Cryptic’s Jack Emmert now heads up DCUO at Daybreak Austin

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Jack Emmert, known to MMORPG players chiefly for his role as co-founder of Cryptic Studios, has been appointed CEO of Daybreak's -- yes, that...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 68: Dark and light

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Justin and Bree discuss Darkfall, Landmark, Marvel Heroes, ArcheAge, Neverwinter, and ESO, with mailbag questions on community negativity, streaming, and commenters.
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

WildStar is buffing its security ahead of its Steam launch

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New security measures land in WildStar today. According to Carbine's blog post, the studio is implementing new IP checks upon login. "When logging into WildStar,...

Warcraft movie premieres in the US, racks up huge ticket pre-sales

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This is a huge week for the Warcraft movie. After releasing overseas, the motion picture adaptation of Blizzard's video game universe will be coming...
The Olympic committee looks really different now.

Blizzard and Facebook team up for streaming

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Blizzard's just announced a new partnership with Facebook that will allow players to livestream their games on the social media platform and give Facebook...

Leaderboard: How many MMORPG Kickstarters have you backed?

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Chronicles of Elyria's successful Kickstarter last week summoned many comments from our readers about how many games they've Kickstarted -- and how it's more...

Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria’s Kickstarter bid ends in triumph (June 4, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria's Kickstarter successfully funded at just over $1.36 million following its SpatialOS integration announcement and tech preview...
Riders on the ic...arus.

Betawatch: Riders of Icarus rounds out its beta (June 3, 2016)

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The third and final stage of Riders of Icarus testing is upon us! The third and final closed beta started on Thursday and will...

Chronicles of Elyria’s Kickstarter has successfully funded

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Indie FFA PvP sandbox Chronicles of Elyria has officially been Kickstarted for over $1.36 million dollars, well exceeding its original $900,000 goal in spite of...

The Secret World is losing its lead writer

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The Secret World is losing its lead writer, Funcom's Romain Amiel has told players on the official forums. "We are sad to announce that Joshua...

Blade and Soul reveals 2016 content plans, including the Soul Fighter class

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NCsoft Producer Nico Coutant has a big community letter out today for Blade & Soul fans discussing the state of the game and where...

Overwatch racks up 7M players, bans 1500 of them

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It's been a little over a week since Overwatch launched, and in that short time Blizzard's new team shooter has become a bonafide success...
The large old German man is not the villain. Groundbreaking!

Someone is already level 100 in Overwatch

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Overwatch player FenderOverwatch has successfully reached the level 100 cap on Tuesday, just a week since its formal launch. You can all give up now. The...

The Division is gunning for a movie adaptation

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Players sucked into the setting and narrative for The Division might be interested to know that Ubisoft is exploring the possibility of getting it made into...

Chronicles of Elyria announces SpatialOS platform integration

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Soulbound Studios has just announced that Chronicles of Elyria will team up with a tech startup called Improbable to make use of its SpatialOS...

Turbine puts out a call for a mobile animator

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Here at Massively OP we never enjoy posting notices about layoffs and closures. One of the things we often discuss behind the scenes is...

Ultima Online’s cash shop is now in-game

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Ultima Online has had a cash shop for a long time. I mean a really long time. I mean since at least the early...

Getting perspective on Chronicles of Elyria’s planned PvP and PvE featureset

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Anyone on the MassivelyOP team will probably tell you that I won't shut up about Chronicles of Elyria. There's so much to like about...
Ah, because you're awesome. That's your selling point.

Chronicles of Elyria developers discuss rope bridge development

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There's no question at this point about whether or not Chronicles of Elyria will be funded. There is, however, some question of whether or...