Camelot Unchained ‘sprints’ toward beta one sieges, teases group and guild infodump - This week's Camelot Unchained is good news, assuming you want to play the game, and you probably do, else you'd not be reading this. "We are now embarking on a…
Shroud of the Avatar reveals a batch of investment rewards for the one percenters - People, steel yourself for an entire article about gold-themed housing decorations that won't involve a single Trump joke. It's going to be hard, but we can get through it. Together.…
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.0 inches closer to testers, CIG touts its mission system - In this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, Cloud Imperium says it's reduced its must-fix issues by 50 over the last week, bringing us that much closer to…
PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma - What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then, CoE has been developing steadily, especially…
Elite: Dangerous brings the Thargoids with patch 2.4 on September 26 - There are dangerous things in deep space when you play Elite: Dangerous. More dangerous than system failures, or pirates, or interstellar phenomena. The Thargoids are arriving on September 26th, the…
Wild West Online’s first closed alpha has officially begun - "Open-world action-based, online multiplayer" game - somewhere between a survival sandbox and an MMO - Wild West Online officially hits closed alpha today, or at least its first phase for…
Star Citizen denies claims that a backer sought and received a $45000 refund - [Update: ArsTechnica now reports that a Cloud Imperium rep has gone on the record stating that some of the Redditor's claims are fabrication, including the amount (CIG maintains it was…
Here are all of Crowfall’s launch class/race combos - Now that Crowfall has split with the whole fixed-archetype thing, it's a world of possibilities over at this PvP title. And while there will be plenty of possible class and…
Albion Online ushers Joseph into the game on September 27th - We do not know if Albion Online's Joseph update will include a technicolor dreamcoat, or indeed, a dreamcoat of any sort. We do know that it'll arrive in the game…
Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar in summation - All the time through playing Shroud of the Avatar, I found myself wanting to like the game a lot more than I did. And my brain kept turning back to…
Project Gorgon is ‘gearing up’ for a Steam launch, adds item context menus - When the history books go to record the development of Project Gorgon, they're going to have to use terms like "ages" and "epochs" to describe the slow-burning process of this…
Crowfall adds armor racks and a dangerous beachhead - September looks to be busy for the Crowfall team, as it continues to expand the campaign world and its related testing process. This week, it triggered a small patch that…
Pantheon’s newsletter covers custom lighting, the perception system, and the state of the game - Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's latest newsletter heralds a state-of-the-game missive spread out over four pages of content. Visionary Realms notes that its Series A funding round allowed it to…
Crowfall reveals the secrets of its crowdfunding success - With $2.7 million raised from fans and $12.5 million total in its pockets from multiple sources, ArtCraft has a wealth of money on which to build Crowfall. The studio also…
Shroud of the Avatar’s R46, free trial, community map, and $52K telethon haul - Shroud of the Avatar is full-speed ahead, looking on to R46 with R45 in the rear-view mirror. What's in R46? Lots of stuff, starting with "building the mid-level and lower…
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts is ‘fed up’ with giving 3.0 release estimates - Eurogamer's Chris Roberts interview covers why the alpha 3.0 is more like early access than beta, how making games has changed in the era of crowdfunding, and why he's tired…
Valiance Online puts out a call for hurricane heroes for charity event - When real-life tragedy occurs, it's perfectly OK to give priority to assistance over interest in video games. But what if you could do both? Valiance Online has joined the growing…
PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation’s combat, crowdfunding, characters, and the infamous hat - You don't have to be a massive MMO studio to have a big showing at PAX West - Intrepid Studios proved that. The indie studio developing Ashes of Creation had a…
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