crowdfunding
Kickstarted indie VR MMO OrbusVR plans alpha tests, character customization upgrades
What's up with OrbusVR, the blocky indie VR sandbox that breezed through its quickie Kickstarter to raise $34,000 last month -- 340% of its...
Dual Universe crosses $690,550 stretch goal, eyes bounty system
How big can two universes get? Dual Universe is pushing the boundaries this month as community donations propelled it past another stretch goal.
Dual Universe...
City of Heroes-inspired MMORPG Ship of Heroes has canceled its Kickstarter bid
The team behind Ship of Heroes has just announced that it's canceling its Kickstarter. Since the crowdfund's launch on April 4th, it had raised only $35,138...
AdventureQuest 3D adds party system, cosmetic items, and dungeon options
Patch 1.4 landed in AdventureQuest 3D yesterday, bringing with it several important and welcome features to the game. And yeah, the patch even included...
City of Heroes-inspired Ship of Heroes’ $400,000 Kickstarter is live
Ship of Heroes has formally launched its Kickstarter today as promised, with a $400,000 ask.
The game is an Unreal 4 engine, full-scale MMORPG heavily...
Multiplayer space sim Starfighter Inc. has 12 days to finish raising $150K
We've been covering Starfighter Inc. for the last few weeks in Make My MMO, but apparently a lot of you folks who say you...
Make My MMO: Elite’s Commanders, SOTA’s R40, Starfighter’s AMA (April 1, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite: Dangerous rather unceremoniously announced on social media that the 2.3 Commanders update will launch around the middle of April...
The Warcraft Tales add-on project has been shut down by Blizzard
If you were excited about the promise of the World of Warcraft add-on Warcraft Tales, the bad news is that the project has been...
Mark Kern’s Em-8ER on omniframe classes, THMPR animations
Mark Kern's crowdfunded MMO-shooter Em-8ER has a slew of new videos out this week featuring animations for the THMPR, finishing off the mech's "basic...
Kickstarter celebrates 10,000 funded games projects
Kickstarter announced last week that donors have officially backed 10,000 funded games projects.
That's almost 2.5 million people pledging $613 million; more than half of...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s subber promo, Planet Nomads’ early access, Project Gorgon’s bards (March 25, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen capped off a week of DirectX revelations and mega map explanations with a round of celebrations -- for its...
Kickstarted survival sandbox Planet Nomads hits early access on April 18
Planet Nomads is one of those gorgeous sci-fi multiplayer survival sandboxes that's been kicking around on our Make My MMO list for so long...
Crowfall reflects on its ‘unrelenting series of updates’
It's a little hard to believe, but we've now been watching Crowfall develop since late 2014, going from a teaser announcement through a successful...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to multiplayer survival sandboxes
Welcome to The Survivalist! Ya'll might have noticed that I have gravitated a bit from my happy home of deep, immersive virtual worlds (possible...
Ship of Heroes touts Unreal Engine 4 progress ahead of Kickstarter bid
Since our community has City of Heroes on the brain of late, let's recall that there are no less than five games inspired by...
Here’s why everyone’s pissed off about City of Heroes NPCs in NCsoft’s MOBA
Yesterday, NCsoft took the lid off a secret it's clearly been working on for a while: The company means to introduce a notorious and...
Make My MMO: Pathfinder is alive, Starfighter seeks crowdfunds (March 18, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pathfinder Online resurfaced this weekend with good and bad news. Paizo's Lisa Stevens tells fans that efforts and research into selling...
Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote
We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
Pantheon attempts to woo the Kickstarter community with its progress
It's no secret that Pantheon and Kickstarter haven't had the best of relationships, what with the game's crowdfunding campaign failing to fund back in the...
Ship of Heroes salutes City of Heroes in its network demo video
Ship of Heroes has a new video out today that is ostensibly a network demo showing off half a dozen remote developers spread across...
