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Elite: Dangerous features in a new Oculus Rift trailer
A new Oculus trailer this week is intent on reminding everyone that Elite: Dangerous is indeed available on the Oculus Rift VR platform.
"Frontier was...
Story-driven survival game The Wild Eight reaches Kickstarter goal
For some, simply surviving is not enough. Enough players want a story amid the chaos of their survival sandbox games that plot-driven The Wild...
Global Chat: What can MMORPG devs do to foster community?
One of the neat aspects of the MMO blogosphere is how writers will often interact and collaborate with each other. Recently, four bloggers ganged...
Chronicles of Elyria demos character physique and aging
Wanna spend your morning watching a dude walking around? OK, I'm only half teasing. Chronicles of Elyria has released a tech demo video showing...
Exile Online invites you into a dark cyberpunk world
Jonesing for a nice bite of cyberpunk in your MMO diet? Then you might want to keep one augmented eye on Exile Online, an upcoming...
PAX East 2016: Brad McQuaid on Pantheon’s startup, development focus, and old-school nature
The development history of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen could be generously described as "checkered." The title went through several forms of failed crowdfunding...
The Game Archaeologist: Saga of Ryzom
Every so often I get requests to cover such-and-such game in this column. These are often incredibly obscure titles, even to me, and when...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s beta delay (April 23, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained's devs revealed that they will not make their planned target for beta. The beta phase has...
PAX East 2016: Mars survival game ROKH delivers demo, preps Kickstarter
The next week may be crucial to the future of ROKH, a persistent survival sandbox that happens to be set on Mars. Darewise Entertainment...
Make My MMO: Ascent’s launch, Elite’s Engineers, and Star Citizen’s new concept ship (April 16, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, space games have dominated the headlines. Indie Kickstarted sandbox Ascent: The Space Game formally launched out of early...
LUX looks for other investors as its Kickstarter comes up short
Things aren't looking good for LUX's Kickstarter campaign. With a little over two days left to go, the multi-platform survival MMO has only raised...
Sacrament’s Kickstarter ends unsuccessfully
Whether or not it's a project you are interested in, when a Kickstarter fails it means that someone is losing out on a project...
What to expect from Atlas Reactor’s closed beta launching today
Atlas Reactor, Trion's turn-based, MOBA-esque PvP game, just finished up its final alpha testing this past weekend, and today, the studio officially kicks off its closed beta. Before...
The harsh lesson City of Titans learned from Kickstarter
When fans bankrolled a project to bring a superhero MMO to live to the tune of a little over $678,000, it wasn't without a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 60: Nostalrius down
Justin and Bree discuss Nostalrius, TERA, Black Desert, SWTOR, DDO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, with mailbag questions on Kickstarters and Tabula Rasa.
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s studio report (April 9, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen published a massive studio report, complete with a brand-new video on EVA transitions for first-person combat.
Meanwhile, Sacrament...
Survival MMORPG LUX seeks Kickstarter funding
Fancy a survival sandbox that has more MMORPG than multiplayer? Open-world, single-shard LUX might just be your game, and it's on Kickstarter hoping for...
EVE Evolved: How did World War Bee start and where is it going?
Throughout the almost nine years I've been covering EVE Online in the gaming media, I've been continually amazed at the sheer scale and impact of events that...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s Siege Perilous is underway (April 2, 2016)
Just a year after Crowfall's Kickstarter was successfully funded, ArtCraft this week kicked off Siege Perilous, a targeted test of part of the castle...
Guest Interview: Lusternia, MUDs, and the evolution of MMOs
This guest interview was commissioned through Massively Overpowered's 2015 Kickstarter campaign by donor Brett Richards, who interviewed Lusternia Producer Robb French in lieu of a Soapbox. Any opinions here...
