Make My MMO: Star Citizen hits $200M in crowdfunds, Reddit drama ensues

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen officially broke the $200 million barrier for total funding collected from the proverbial crowd. That's a lotta ships. Unfortunately, the celebrations over on Reddit took a turn for the dramatic as posts attracted brigaders and were shut down. I'm sure you're all shocked to hear a platform where popularity-via-one-upsmanship determines relevance...
oh nooooo

H1Z1’s esports league is basically toast, ESPN reports

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It looks like H1Z1's Pro League isn't gonna make it. ESPN is reporting this evening that the esports league teams received a letter from Jace Hall informing them that "the 2nd Split has been suspended indefinitely, and that a second league season will not be renewed or scheduled at this time" and that "teams have been immediately released from their...

Whatever happened to Empyrion Galactic Survival?

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Anybody remember Empyrion Online aka Empyrion Galactic Survival? It's one of those space sandbox multiplayer survival games that went for a Kickstarter back in 2014 but ultimately canceled it, having raised only about $26K of its $64K ask. It landed in our Betawatch and then our Make My MMO lists and then... we kinda forgot all about it. But unlike...
(Not nearly) 'nuff said!

Champions Online pays tribute to Stan Lee with new in-game cosmetic

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Champions Online was just one of the many superhero MMOs that came out to pay their respects to comics legend Stan Lee after news of his death earlier this week, and now the folks at Perfect World Entertainment have put out a new post paying tribute to the man without whom their game, and many others like it, may...

The Stream Team: More getting lost in ARK: Extinction

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When we last left Massively OP's Chris, he had inadvertently become ARK: Survival Extinction's greatest hide-and-seek master as he tried to come to grips with the survival sandbox and make his way to his new clan. Now safely back at camp, he's looking to get more acclimated to his new surroundings and maybe even manage to successfully pet a...

LOTRO Legendarium: Starting on a legendary journey

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Part of me was laughing at myself. Here I was, a grown man, shuffling around my weekly schedule to come home in the middle of the day to play an MMORPG that had been out for over 11 years. And more than that, I was practically bouncing up and down because of it. For those that look at the legendary...
THE FINAL DOOT

WRUP: The revolution will be available in audio formats edition

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Folks, we know that people have been upset about the idea that the revolution will not be televised. Thus, we've made sure that the revolution will be available in audio formats, including narrated audio revolution, a sixteen-track concept album by five guys who swear they absolutely love Pink Floyd, and spoken-word poetry that prominently features the word "revolution" over...
Wreckage.

FFXIV Fan Festival 2018: Details from the press conference with Naoki Yoshida

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In contrast to the high-octane trailer that had opened the day, the final event for the first day of the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival was quiet and subdued. Of course, it was also for a very different audience, with numerous press representatives gathered into a small conference room for a quick session of questions and answers with producer and...
There! A thing!

The Daily Grind: Is it better to play MMOs cooperatively or competitively?

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It's a fact of MMO life that, sooner or later, we interact with other players in these games. It's kind of one of the big features. And I've noticed that in most of those play interactions, we're either working with or against other gamers. We play cooperatively when we party, band together to overcome PvE content, help each other out,...

Mythology and modernity collide in upcoming action-RPG Breach

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In the world of QC Games's upcoming action-RPG Breach, there are two Earths: the one we know and love, and the mythological Earth, where magic and mythical creatures reign. After thousands of years, the veil between the two is collapsing, and -- surprise! -- our Earth is under threat of destruction at the hands of the fantastic and terrible...