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Make My MMO: Wagadu and Ilysia breeze past Kickstarter goals
It's been a positively packed couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs new and old. A few of the highlights:
Afrofantasy MMO The Wagadu Chronicles...
Fallout 76 invites players to jump on to the test server to build Shelters
It's almost time to head underground in Fallout 76 when it comes to building Shelters. This is the next major feature arriving for the game's...
Perfect Ten: Why do players keep playing MMOs they hate?
Hating your recreation is an oddly common hobby for a lot of people. It's not universal, of course, but after any given new game...
Make My MMO: TitanReach and Ilysia head to Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Titan Reach kicked off its Kickstarter, seeking $428,000 US to fund a modern take on an "old-school" MMO set...
Krafton spins Bluehole off as an ‘independent subsidiary’ to handle TERA and Elyon
The corporate reshuffling that's been going on ever since En Masse Entertainment announced that it was closing is producing interesting developments this fall. Krafton,...
Global Chat: Which MMO has the least annoying inventory system?
Inventory is something we have to deal with in, oh, pretty much every MMO that we play. Some games are far more generous with...
Meta: Meet Mo Mania the Third, coming to SUBtember this Saturday
Whats better than a regular Mo stream? A Mo Mania stream-athon! (And a third one at that!) Meet Mo Mania the The Third, or...
Massively Overthinking: Contemplating in-game advertising
Last week, EA announced that it would finally be removing all the in-game ads from UFC4 after a few days of intense complaining from...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn DLC arrives on consoles
Good news for the patient and long-suffering Elder Scrolls Online console players: The game's latest DLC and patch have finally arrived following the PC...
The Game Archaeologist: Mirrorworld
In this column, we have previously journeyed to lands where you saw not with your eyes, but with your imagination. I speak, of course,...
Spellbreak trades battle royale’s shooting for spellcasting as it officially launches
As we mentioned earlier this week, the battle royale sub-genre has a fresh arrival in the form of Spellbreak, a game where the shooting...
Hands-on with the four Vs of Nexon’s mobile MMO V4
One of my friends once said to me, "Carlo, I always see you play those random 6 out of 10 MMOs, and I don't...
‘Circular economy’ MMO Virtuverse schedules public early access test for this fall
Over the past two years, we've been lightly tracking the development of Virtuverse, an episodic online sci-fi RPG with a curious business model, and...
Kids MMO developer Age of Learning must pay the FTC $10M to settle ‘dark patterns’ complaint
The US Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the purveyor of kids game ABCMouse this week, having alleged that the company "made misrepresentations...
Make My MMO: Dual Universe’s beta – its ‘fully playable version’ – is up and away
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Dual Universe hit true beta, dropping its NDA and swelling its ranks far past the 20,000 testers who were...
ArcheAge Unchained is free-to-play this weekend with the SUMMERTRIAL code
If you've been eyeing ArcheAge Unchained over the last year but hadn't wanted to pull the trigger on a buy-to-play experience, especially after the...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs we intentionally avoid
A few weeks back, I read a Twitter thread about people who avoid specific games and types of games, and the folks chiming in...
MMO designer Raph Koster talks about what makes the subscription model a success
Playable Worlds CEO Raph Koster, as we all know, has opinions about MMO gaming and multiplayer gaming, especially on the business side of things,...
The Game Archaeologist: Flagship’s Mythos
Whenever the topic of Flagship Studios comes up, usually it's in conjunction with Hellgate: London. And while Hellgate certainly was a huge and ultimately...
EVE Echoes approaches 20K reviews, drops patch, and adds notifications to your watch
So how is EVE Echoes doing out in the wild? It's hard to know hard numbers from CCP and Netease, but since its launch...
