crowdfunding
World of Warcraft’s first 3-D level designer is Kickstarting a massive behind-the-scenes book, and it’s already written
The Ancient Gaming Noob himself tipped us off today to a bizarre but intriguing Kickstarter that should appeal to that cross-section of our audience...
Over 2,000,000 people have now registered accounts for Star Citizen
Star Citizen hit another milestone this week: It's reached 2,000,000 citizens. Accounts, specifically.
The game has been in production since before its Kickstarter launched almost...
GDC 2018: The Legends of Aria devs talk closed beta, gankbox PvP, and the MMORPG genre
One thing I love about GDC compared to other conventions I cover is how many actual developers I get to talk to, especially without...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous players expose ‘wanker function’ hacker (March 24, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite Dangerous players scoped out the dirty doings of the paid HCS voice pack plugin, which was apparently intentionally and...
GDC 2018: In the crow’s nest with Ship of Heroes’ CEO Casey McGeever
Let me be upfront: I've never gotten into a superhero MMO. I love comics; outside of work, it's probably the only fiction I willingly...
Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise
MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...
Shroud of the Avatar: Partying with Portalarium, countering pay-to-win, and the state of the game
The day is finally arriving: Shroud of the Avatar is formally launching next week. It's been a long journey. The path to this new old-school...
The MOP Up: Enter the Phantom Halls — if you dare! (March 18, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Reign of Guilds moves toward alpha testing, talks about the game’s creation
With 15 developers now on staff and progression toward an alpha build, Reign of Guilds is slowly but surely taking shape as a hardcore...
Make My MMO: Dual Universe picks up former EVE Online dev, Project Gorgon hits early access (March 17, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, French website AFJV reported that Dual Universe studio Novaquark has snapped up one of the original EVE Online designers: Hrafnkell...
Pantropy cancels its Kickstarter, rejects publishing offers, plans a new Kickstarter
As we've been covering in Make My MMO, the Kickstarter for sci-fi MMO shooter Pantropy hadn't been going as well as developer Brain Stone...
ROKH studio Darewise says it’s not abandoning the survival sandbox for new sci-fi MMO Project C
Survival sandbox fans will be pleased to know that ROKH hasn't been abandoned. The game's given the appearance of struggling over the past couple...
ECO shows off its upcoming vehicles
At long last, players of ECO will no longer be stuck having to walk from place to place like an animal, but will be...
Ascent: The Space Game is close to pushing out a new patch and client after switching engines
Back in January, we expressed concern for the brilliant one-man space indie sandbox MMORPG called Ascent: The Space Game (not to be confused with...
Warframe celebrates five years and 38 million players
Warframe continues to defy expectations for online gaming playerbase sizes. A year ago, it boasted 30M registered players. As of today, it's up to 38M....
Global Chat: Avoiding MMO activities
Have you ever noticed that you play it way too safe in your MMOs, especially when it comes to interacting (or not) with others? Aywren...
Make My MMO: Pantropy’s Kickstarter ends Tuesday, Project Gorgon eyes Steam this week (March 10, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's not looking great for Pantropy, whose Kickstarter is only just over half funded with only a few more...
Dual Universe launches additional crowdfunding with supporter packs
Excited for the release of Dual Universe? The game is still planning for a launch this year, but like any ongoing game project, especially...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest MMO peripheral you’ve ever seen?
Massively OP is heading to GDC this year, which means we're being deluged by PR from techware and software companies that'll be on site....
Dual Universe puts community suggestions into development
Space construction sim Dual Universe wants its players to know that it is truly listening to their feedback. The team at Novaquark started up...
