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Massively Overthinking: The worst MMO cash shop trickery
Last week, games psychologist Jamie Madigan tweeted an underrated comment about how psychological tricks used in restaurant menu design are also found in video...
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.6.0 has reached the Evocati, though the law system isn’t done cooking yet
Star Citizen fans, rev up your space engines for another round of testing: The game's initial alpha 3.6.0 build has rolled out to Evocati...
Star Citizen’s new Pillar Talk series stars key devs discussing the 3.6 alpha
Your eyes aren't deceiving you: Cloud Imperium has brought back Pillar Talk as a real thing for the Star Citizen community, and it's not...
Star Citizen is putting an awful lot of effort into creating an epic space bar experience
If you're quite over joking about space caves and how the economy team is using ships' popularity to decide how to price them, Star...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO superfans, zealots, and insidious tribalism
We recently received two pieces of mail from longtime MOP readers and commenters that worked together perfectly to form a unified topic. Alex emailed...
Star Citizen’s monthly report promises new missions, improved AI, and caves
The month of May has seen lots of development done in Star Citizen according to the game's monthly report. Now having typed that sentence,...
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.5.1 is live as CIG seeks feedback on ship customization pricing
Ship customization rolled out to PTU testers this week as part of Star Citizen's alpha 3.5.1, but CIG didn't waste much time pushing it...
Star Citizen pushed alpha 3.5.1 and ship customization to the PTU
It's happening: Star Citizen's next iteration, alpha 3.5.1, has rolled out to the PTU. Of course, as usual, this is for the early waves...
Star Citizen explains customized ships and ship gear insurance while exploring black market trade mechanics
Star Citizen's done something rather rare this week: It's posted up a detailed Q&A on ship customization that cuts right to the big questions...
Star Citizen begins early testing for alpha 3.5.1, answers Tumbril Ranger questions, and shows off plants
Hi friends! Would you like to hear more about Star Citizen stuff? Of course you would! And if you don't, make sure to tell...
One Shots: Look – but don’t throw
It's pretty common to be frustrated by MMOs showing you things that you can't ever touch or play. Whether it be fantastic races that...
Star Citizen deep-dives development and rewards, promises more info on 3.5.1 ‘soon’
We hope you really wanted to dig down into the guts of Star Citizen this week because on the latest Inside Star Citizen, Cloud...
Massively Overthinking: Unpopular MMORPG opinions
Unpopular opinions: We all have them. In fact we have so many that it's a straight up meme. This week's Massively Overthinking is one...
Star Citizen’s latest developer video premieres a ‘wheeled warrior of wickedness’
Yesterday when Star Citizen dropped its latest concept ship sale for Concierge players - for the Tumbril Ranger motorcycles - we guessed that not...
Star Citizen’s latest concept ship sale is actually for… motorcycles
When DK tipped me this story, I joked that I could just write "Star Citizen. Motorcycles. $450" and you guys would just go and...
Star Citizens, check your hangars – the recent $0 CCU purge wiped out some valuable chassis
Heads-up if you're a Star Citizen backer: Last week's update to the Cross Chassis Upgrade system has apparently gone awry. That's the system that...
One Shots: A view to a kill
Considering which side of our characters we look at the most, it bewilders me how little customization that MMO designers give to the back...
Lawful Neutral: The war over Star Citizen in Crytek v. Cloud Imperium Games
Hello citizens! Today, I'm going to talk about a little game that's been flying under the radar and I think deserves some air time:...
Inside Star Citizen discusses the 3.5 flight model, collecting feedback, and the Banu Defender
The weekly Star Citizen development video is out once again, and this time it's all about that flight model, which is something that the...
Forbes characterizes Star Citizen’s development as ‘incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale’
If you have only the faintest idea what has gone on with Star Citizen since its initial Kickstarter, a new Forbes piece on the game...
