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Make My MMO: May 9, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned everything we ever wanted to know about Star Citizen's first person shooter module, plus a bit more....
Massively Overthinking: The return of ‘consequences’ to MMOs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Kickstarter donor Antonia "Toni" Phillips aka ToniLyran, who's hit on a sore point with our writers, it...
Everything you need to know about Crowfall’s combat testing
As nifty as Crowfall's mechanical goals are, they're not going to help the game much in the long run if the fundamental combat engine...
Crowfall’s store is (partly) up and running
You have not played enough of Crowfall to form an opinion on how it plays. You haven't. It isn't playable yet. But that doesn't...
A guide to building and using your kingdom in Crowfall
Crowfall's individual campaign worlds are intended to be reset over time. That's by design; each world will flourish, then wither, then die. But the...
Crowfall reaches its graphics programmer stretch goal
Like many big crowdfunded projects, Crowfall didn't stop reaching for stretch goals just because the game's main Kickstarter project ended. The project has hit...
How Star Wars Galaxies pioneered a ‘living society’
Former Star Wars Galaxies Creative Director and current Crowfall consultant Raph Koster returned to his blog last night to pen the fourth in his...
Crowfall delivers minotaur lore, Confessor sculpture
Crowfall is delivering a two-for-one dev update today, starting with lore behind the Myrmidon. The Myrmidon is a minotaur that made it into the...
How Crowfall will be built for around $6M
How can Crowfall be made with less than $10 million in this day and age? That's the big question of the day that Executive...
Crowfall expounds on the service of Thralls
Have you ever wanted to be a grim reaper? In Crowfall, you can. And for once it is a mutually beneficial proposition! A new...
Make My MMO: April 11, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye to Descent Underground's fundraising campaign. It was a fond farewell, though, since the sci-fi space shooter reboot topped...
Crowfall unveils the badass lady Champion
Crowfall unveiled the concept art for the female Champion today, and... well, it's pretty great. She's huge, she's visibly powerful, and she's intended to...
Crowfall video shows off siege concepts
Crowfall's siege mechanics are on display today in a new video highlighting the Artcraft Entertainment's current plans for taking on player-controlled cities. The video...
EVE Evolved: Four lessons sandbox MMOs can learn from EVE
The past few years have seen a resurgence of support for sandbox MMOs, both of the trying-to-be-minecraft creative kind and the hardcore nuke-it-from orbit...
Crowfall’s Walton says we should blame him for Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE
Hey, NGE fans! Crowfall's Gordon Walton says that the day that will live in Star Wars: Galaxies infamy was his idea.
Now, that's oversimplifying things just a...
Crowfall teases female Ranger archetype
ArtCraft has posted a Crowfall week-at-a-glance update that contains plenty of interesting nuggets. Chief among them is the reveal of the female Ranger archetype....
Crowfall reorganizes after Kickstarter, prepares for summer pre-alpha test
While Crowfall may be running silent following its Kickstarter campaign, it doesn't mean that the team is coasting. On the contrary, things might have...
The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs need VR?
Video game developers have been positively obsessing about virtual reality for the last few years, but barring an exception here and there, few MMOs seem...
Make My MMO: March 28, 2015
This week's crowdfunding news was all about Crowfall. Seriously, we must've written about Crowfall like 76 times or something. In the end, the most relevant...
Crowfall finishes out Kickstarter worth $1,766,204
ArtCraft Entertainment's "throne war simulator" Crowfall was officially funded this morning, with 16,936 backers pledging a grand total of $1,766,204 -- over 2000 backers...
