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Fractured Online’s new studio talks plans for combat, monetization, and wider design vision
Last week Happy Cauldron Games, the indie studio reviving Fractured Online, encouraged fans to tune in to a livestream to hear more about its...
Stars Reach talks Kickstarter test access, world resets, player governance, and player-made contracts
With Stars Reach wrapping up an extremely successful Kickstarter drive, Playable Worlds is now eager to crank out bunches of information. We'll begin with details...
Puzkin is an upcoming Kickstarted MMO that promises multi-platform play and a truly safe family-friendly experience
If you are told that an upcoming MMO is being built to facilitate kids having fun with creativity at the heart of the game,...
Make My MMO: Anachronia canceled its $72K Kickstarter the day before it ended
Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP's long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and...
Star Citizen confirms a one-day, digital-only ‘CitizenCon Direct’ for this October
If you were hoping to set up plans to visit the United Kingdom this year for Star Citizen's annual CitizenCon event, well, don't bother...
Whatever happened to superhero MMO Valiance Online? (2025 edition)
It's been a couple of years since we heard much out of Valiance Online, one of the original superhero MMORPGs that spawned in the...
Star Citizen’s March report marks progress on new ships, AI tools, and overheating for ships and weapons
With alpha 4.1's release as the milestone marker for March in Star Citizen, the progress report for that same month out of CIG is...
Fractured Online’s new studio is now ‘eight people strong’ as devs talk background update efforts
Yes, having eight developers working on the slowly rebuilding Fractured Online is not a lot, but considering this game had three unpaid workers at...
Star Citizen’s $10M pledge haul in March caps off a first quarter YoY funding increase for 2025
Yet again, the unfinished alpha spaceship sandbox Star Citizen continues to break crowdfunding records despite its long years in early development: CIG's sci-fi magnum...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 512: Equinox Homecoming is not horsing around
Justin and Bree discuss the new horse mystery MMO Equinox Homecoming, the reveal of RuneScape Dragonwilds, Stars Reach's Kickstarted, FFXIV's Seekers of Eternity, and Black Desert's console sunset/upgrade, and LOTRO's housing rush, with adventures in LOTRO and World of Warcraft, plus a mailbag topic on frugal gaming.
Magic to Master has arrived to Steam early access with a meager player headcount and scathing user reviews
We'd forgive our readers if they collectively agreed to purge Magic to Master from their memory, but we have a duty to report that,...
MMO Hype Train: Is there any hope – or hype – left for Camelot Unchained?
If there's any developer alive who knows realm-vs-realm MMO design better than Mark Jacobs, I haven't met him or her. Jacobs and Mythic Entertainment...
Stars Reach’s final Kickstarter haul inches past $750,000, unlocking the shield generators stretch goal
Last night, we covered the successful completion of Stars Reach's Kickstarter campaign: Thanks to gamers, Playable Worlds raised over $750,000 in crowdfunding, and at...
Stars Reach Kickstarter ends with over $750K raised – plus fresh investment and a new vampire species
Stars Reach, Raph Koster's grand sci-fi MMORPG sandbox adventure, has officially funded on Kickstarter this afternoon, soaring past $739,000 in crowdfunding with over 5,200...
Star Citizen highlights the Drake Golem, alpha 4.1’s upcoming new starter mining ship
If you're the kind of Star Citizen player who's looking to break into ship-based mining, doesn't want to cough up the credits (or real-world...
Wakfu raised almost $2M in crowdfunding for its animated series’ fifth season as devs test the UI
You would be forgiven for wondering why a bunch of UI features would require a PTS round, but that's just what Wakfu is going...
Stars Reach hits $650K in crowdfunding and unlocks a construction overhaul for player builders
As I type this, there's just about a day left to go on the Stars Reach Kickstarter, which obviously will fund as it's pulled...
The Daily Grind: Do you appreciate brutal honesty from MMORPG devs?
A few weeks back, the few remaining Might and Delight developers admitted in print that Kickstarted MMO Book of Travels is basically in maintenance...
Star Citizen studio shutters its LA offices as players argue CIG’s whaling is anti-consumer
Star Citizen studio Cloud Imperium has announced in its Chairman's Club newsletter that it is officially shuttering its Los Angeles studio. Last year, the...
Stars Reach adds procedural creature variance, combat updates, and new mining tweaks in latest build
Stars Reach has put forth another update to its pre-alpha, and this one has some pretty impactful additions that players will want to know...
