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PAX East 2015: A chat with SOTA’s Richard Garriott
Richard Garriott casts a long shadow in the MMO industry, with Ultima Online serving as the first fully graphical MMO and ushering in the genre...
Thank you from the Massively Overpowered team
Last night, 12 hours into an insane streamathon, our 28-day Kickstarter to fund Massively Overpowered's reroll drew to a close with some of our very dearest...
Betawatch: March 6, 2015
After a brief delay, Camelot Unchained's alpha went live this week; City State Entertainment even threw in a builder tool to sweeten the pot....
Crowfall is raking in the big bucks
Crowfall's Kickstarter campaign is little more than a week old, but that hasn't stopped the PvP MMO from racking up 10,000-plus backers and over...
Indie Harry Potter MMO slapped with cease and desist
Let this be an important lesson to any would-be game designers: If you try to make a game based on a very well-known IP...
Trials of Ascension cancels second Kickstarter campaign
What crowdfunding giveth, crowdfunding also withholdeth. This is the hard lesson that Trials of Ascension has had to learn, not once, but twice.
Less than...
Crowfall explains what you can take out of a dying world
By now, most of you know that Crowfall's PvP campaigns will take place on time-limited worlds that will come to a definite end. But...
Camelot Unchained preps for its alpha unveiling
Camelot Unchained had to delay the start of its alpha testing for everyone over the weekend, but it doesn't seem as if it's going to be...
Make My MMO: February 28, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Crowfall basically blotted out the sun. The "throne war simulator" surpassed its $800,000 goal in a couple of...
Kickstarter Overpowered: Week three, PAX, and Mo
The Massively Overpowered Kickstarter campaign is nearing $69K with over 1500 backers -- we're still blown away by that! We've got just a week...
Betawatch: February 27, 2015
Skyforge announced its upcoming closed beta schedule this week; expect the first round to begin on March 11th. You can ensure a spot in the...
Today’s Repopulation patch makes ‘massive changes’ to combat
If you're looking to test The Repopulation this morning, well, it's going to be down for four to eight hours. That's the bad news....
Camelot Unchained teases ability crafting system
What's new with Camelot Unchained? Well, let's see: City State has knocked a bunch of items off the fourth iteration of its pre-alpha checklist,...
Crowfund: Crowfall easily passes its fundrasing goal
Call it Crowfund. In only a few short days, Crowfall has passed its $800,000 crowdfunding goal -- and there looks to be no end...
Massively Overthinking: Impressions of Crowfall
We've got crows on the brain this week since Crowfall launched its Kickstarter. As of this afternoon, the game is just about 100k shy of...
Shroud of the Avatar upgrades to Unity 5 for Release 15
Shroud of the Avatar's Release 15 begins today. In fact, it begins this morning at 11:30 a.m. EST. The new build features Unity 5,...
Global Chat: Business model first, game construction second
Welcome back to Global Chat, the column where we reach out and give props to interesting and well-written articles from the MMO blogosphere. Today...
Crowfall pushes its Game of Thrones connection
If you've gotten the eerie feeling that Crowfall is not-so-subtly trying to establish a connection in fans' minds between the MMO and the hit...
Crowfall: The ultimate union of MMOs and strategy
What do you get when you take a few of the most experienced developers in the MMO industry and give them the freedom to...
Shroud of the Avatar talks economy, online vs. offline modes
This weekend's Shroud of the Avatar post is a big one. Update of the Avatar #113 explains how the game's single-player offline mode will...
