crowdfunding
MMO Week in Review: Skull & Bones departs drydock
Skull & Bones finally drifted into its soft launch open beta after eleventy billion delays and do-overs, and... it's actually not terrible? And it's...
Star Citizen begins its Valentine’s Day, Lunar New Year, and free fly events for February this weekend
The month of February is loaded to the gills with events (and shop sales) for the alpha spaceship sandbox of Star Citizen, as CIG...
Not So Massively: Stormgate isn’t delivering a revolution (yet)
Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...
Scars of Honor is a throwback to the ‘golden age’ of MMOs with a $200K Kickstarter
Another day, another MMO that seeks to "bring back the golden age of the genre." But will the emerging Scars of Honor capture the...
Animal Crossing-inspired cozy MMO Galactic Getaway launches $50,000 Kickstarter
Twice last spring, we covered a new-to-us MMO called Galactic Getaway, a game that had been in production already since 2021. We originally binned...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time an MMO studio truly impressed you?
Embers Adrift is probably never going to be my MMORPG, but damn I'm proud of Stormhaven Studios. Yes, I have a soft spot for...
Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium teases upcoming alpha 3.23’s possible features
The return of Star Citizen's weekly video digests already highlighted a couple of features for alpha 3.23, but there's now the usual weekly Star...
Make My MMO: Zenith’s spinoff game, EVE Online’s board game Kickstarter
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks!
It's been pretty hoppin' for Kickstarted MMOs lately, as Elite Dangerous is...
Open Perpetuum is bringing land mines, new weapons, and T4 balancing sometime in ‘Marchish’
Markish your calendarsh because the Perpetuum emulator Open Perpetuum is going to be releasing Patch 31 sometime in "Marchish." When is Marchish? We're notsh...
Kickstarted solarpunk ‘mediumly multiplayer’ Loftia picks up investor seed funds and support
Loftia was easily one of the biggest MMOs to fund on Kickstarter last year: The self-described "mediumly multiplayer" sandbox pulled in $1.27M US for...
Star Citizen discusses alpha 3.23 EVA updates, lines up multiple events and a new free trial for February
Star Citizen is a game that's mostly about internet spaceships, but sometimes players need to engage in some extra-vehicular activity, or EVA for short....
After nearly eight years, Dual Universe says physical Kickstarter rewards are en route
Dual Universe completed its Kickstarter crowdfunding drive in October 2016. Some of those backer tiers included physical schwag that would be mailed to player...
Hawaii-themed zombie survivalbox Fractured Veil finally makes its early access release to mixed reviews
After a multi-year series of delays, Paddle Creek Games has made the early access launch for its survival sandbox Fractured Veil, inviting players to...
EVE Online’s board game Kickstarter is live – and it met its funding goal in under an hour
Apparently there are plenty of EVE Online fans who would like the board game version of the spaceship sandbox to be a thing. Yesterday...
Ashes of Creation officially makes good on its plan to stop selling Alpha Two backer packs
August of last year saw Ashes of Creation's Intrepid Studios announce its plans that it would stop selling pre-order packs of the gankbox MMORPG...
Star Citizen’s CIG was hit with a measly $190 fine for… not filing its 2022 financial report on time
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class," so sayeth the meme, and that...
Make My MMO: MMO crowdfunding at the top of 2024, from Ashes to Zenith
Welcome to our very first Make My MMO of 2024! When we last checked in on the crowdfunded games of our genre, we were...
Massively Overthinking: The 2023 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
This might be one of the most important Massively Overthinkings we do all year, and it's a pretty salty one. We always come away...
Funcom partners to publish multiplayer space sandbox Empyrion and its first expansion
Co-op space adventure sim Empyrion got an unexpected ally this week as its developer, Eleon Game Studios, announced a new partnership with Funcom to...
The Daily Grind: Which game, studio, or idea was the biggest contributor to killing the MMORPG genre in 2023?
When we first started running this annual Daily Grind, MMO players were most likely to point to the likes of Blizzard and Tencent. Then...
