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Chronicles of Elyria limits, standardizes starting tribes
Responding to fan feedback on the forums, Soulbound Studios is making a design change in regards to Chronicles of Elyria's "tribes" -- its playable races...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen sells 14K concept ships in 24 hours (June 24, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen followers once again proved their game's dominance by purchasing 14,000 of its new Nox concept ships in less...
Scope out the first three Chronicles of Elyria player tribes
Last week, Soulbound Studios began its informational rollout of Chronicles of Elyria's tribe system, which would be a race system in any other game...
Make My MMO: Broke Protocol launches early access after failed Kickstarter (June 10, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Minecraft-meets-GTAO MMO Broke Protocol's Kickstarter ended unsuccessfully on Thursday, but the good news is that the game launched its early access...
Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
Chronicles of Elyria picks up a new community producer, explains its tribal concept
The family at Soulbound Studio has grown one larger this week with the addition of Adam Wong as Chronicles of Elyria's new senior community...
MMO veteran Bill Roper joins SpatialOS dev Improbable
MMORPG fans know well the name Bill Roper: He's the former Blizzard developer who went on to helm Flagship's Hellgate: London and Cryptic's Champions Online...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, Shroud of the Avatar’s equity crowdfund (June 3, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter came to a close with $3.2M and nearly 20,000 backers, making it the biggest MMORPG Kickstarter...
Chronicles of Elyria develops fuzzy ecology and announces MUD visuals
Aw. Look at the otter. Isn't she cute? Swimmin' around like that?
It's not that we thought you needed an otter break today (although you...
Improbable’s plan for rescuing the MMO genre from ‘nuclear winter’ involves a crapton of money
Improbable keeps popping up in news stories relating to MMOs lately -- that's thanks to SpatialOS, what the company is calling a "distributed computing...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen has now raised $150M in crowdfunds (May 20, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen officially broke the $150,000,000 crowdfunding mark, propelled along by gamers sinking large sums of cash into the latest...
Chronicles of Elyria’s online tech is coming together
Chronicles of Elyria is continuing its... interesting method of disseminating development information by posting blogs about its "adventure teams" and their work on the...
RuneScape’s Jagex is the latest MMORPG studio to employ Improbable’s SpatialOS
Add another gaming studio partnership to Improbable's file: RuneScape developer Jagex announced today that it's teamed up with the tech company to deploy SpatialOS...
Make My MMO: Wild West Online debuts, Ashes of Creation nears $2M (May 13, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, 612 Games announced Wild West Online, a US western-themed game that the devs are definitely calling an MMO, though it looks...
Ashes of Creation meets Underrealm stretch goal, eyes $2M in crowdfunding
With well over two weeks to go in its Kickstarter campaign, Ashes of Creation has already outpaced similar efforts from Chronicles of Elyria ($1.36M...
Virtual world creator Improbable receives $502M investment from SoftBank
Here's another reminder that we really shouldn't take our eyes off of Improbable Worlds, even for a second. The five-year-old software company, which is...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
Chronicles of Elyria runs a Kickstarter anniversary sale
Hey! Hey everyone! Don't you remember how there was this totally awesome MMO Kickstarter campaign a year ago that rocked? No, no, don't think...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, ROKH’s early access, Valiance’s map (May 6, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation made the leap to Kickstarter, raising (so far as I type this) 1.35M, far more than its...
Fat men can’t jump: Chronicles of Elyria sends studio teams on project ‘adventures’
With four times the staff than it had at this time last year, Soulbound Studios is going full-steam on Chronicles of Elyria and all...
