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Leaderboard: Which of the City of Heroes spiritual successors are you looking forward to?
A few years ago, we counted basically three City of Heroes successor games, all made by indie studios. In 2017, we still have three...
Make My MMO: The Thargoids should win Elite Dangerous (September 30, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite has finally begun to sound "dangerous" indeed. After just a few days of owning players, the alien race that "returned"...
Crowfall clarifies Kickstarter ‘proof-of-concept’ statements
The folks at Procedural Worlds have a new interview-slash-testimonial from Crowfall Lead Environment Artist Jon O'Neal, in which he talks up that company's enviromental...
Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs on guilds, groups, and the social systems that make an MMORPG go ’round
Over the weekend, the studio behind crowdfunded RvR MMORPG Camelot Unchained released a hefty chunk of its ongoing beta one document, revealing extensive insight into...
Make My MMO: Ship of Character Customization (September 23, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ship of Heroes continued proving itself worthy as a City of Heroes successor with a new video demo of...
Massively Overthinking: How will Star Citizen make money after launch?
During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I attempted to tackle a question sent in by commenter and listener Sally Bowls - specifically,...
Identity hires more devs, says it’s ‘full steam ahead’ for this life simulator
Two years after its successful Kickstarter campaign, the contemporary MMORPG Identity still has yet to produce any actual gameplay for its backers and fans....
Pantropy brings base building and mechs to an alien world, plans November Kickstarter
At this point in the survival sandbox craze, it is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate yourself from the rest of the pack. We can't...
Combat and character progression comes to Dogma: Eternal Night
The night unfurls before you and reveals itself once more. The small dev team behind the vampire MMO Dogma: Eternal Night put out a...
Chronicles of Elyria wraps up its PAX jousting jaunt
It might not have involved fluttering about on the back of a well-trained ostrich, but Chronicles of Elyria's jousting minigame did well enough for...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel crowdfunded MMOs ‘owe’ you something?
My husband and I were chatting about the whole Chris-Roberts-is-fed-up-with-trolls-and-date-estimates-that-everyone-knows-aren't-going-to-stick thing from last week when he said something that struck me. "It reminds me...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen would make for a terrible scam (September 16, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts gave an interview that seemed to express understandable frustration with the constant barrage of demands...
PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma
What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then,...
Crowfall reveals the secrets of its crowdfunding success
With $2.7 million raised from fans and $12.5 million total in its pockets from multiple sources, ArtCraft has a wealth of money on which...
PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation’s combat, crowdfunding, characters, and the infamous hat
You don't have to be a massive MMO studio to have a big showing at PAX West - Intrepid Studios proved that. The indie studio...
Make My MMO: Everybody poops in Star Citizen (September 9, 2017)
Remember a few weeks ago when Star Citizen confirmed survival mechanics like eating and sleeping? Welp, add pooping to the list. This week in MMO...
MMORTS War of Conquest is live on Kickstarter now
Are you eager to form a nation, fight your friends, and wage a war of conquest across the land? Then perhaps you'd like to...
Meta: Twitch’s SUBtember promo helps Massively OP stream!
Massively OP is a Twitch Partner, meaning that our supporters are able to subscribe to our Twitch streaming channel, which puts money directly into...
City of Titans plans 2017 pre-alpha, crowdfund to ‘take things to the next level’
City of Titans studio Missing Worlds Media has just posted a recap of its presentation at last week's PAX West and a status update...
PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes on exploration, community, and recapturing the magic of City of Heroes
Sometimes MMORPG players might get the feeling that game companies will let just about anything slide in order to keep the most revenue streaming...
