crowdfunding
Make My MMO: The Exiled arrives to mixed reviews on Steam (February 25, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, The Exiled was released to the wilds of Steam early access. Formerly called Das Tal, the buy-to-play indie sandbox attempted to...
Meta: Cloudbleed security notice for our Patreon users
Cloudflare DNS announced this morning that it suffered a security incident over the last few months that could affect a vast swath of the...
Ship of Heroes plans April Kickstarter, alpha to run into next year
Are you watching the Ship of Heroes Kickstarter countdown? Have you set it to your main tab when you boot up your browser? Our...
Ship of Heroes posts a Kickstarter countdown on its main page
Whenever we here bring news about a new indie title, there's always at least one person asking in the comments about when the Kickstarter...
Make My MMO: Smed’s new studio, Camelot’s beta, and Elite’s Holo-Me (February 18, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we did a retrospective on why crowdfunded MMOARPG Hero's Song failed. It's almost as if Justin knew (cue spooky music) because...
Smed’s new Amazon studio is basically Pixelmage Games
Amazon Game Studios announced yesterday that it had picked up MMORPG genre veteran John Smedley to helm one of its up-and-coming online game studios....
Perfect Ten: Terminology the MMORPG genre needs
MMOs, like any other hobby, have their own terminology. We have the term "newb" for new players, "noob" for players who aren't actually new...
What in the world happened to TUG?
TUG, better known as The Untitled Game, burst onto the scene in May of 2013 with a Kickstarter, which didn't elicit the same groans...
Five reasons behind the failure of Hero’s Song
In July of 2015, MMORPG fans were stunned to hear that John Smedley was stepping down from his post as president of Daybreak. After...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained, Mekria, TUG, and more (February 11, 2017)
This week in MMO crowfunding was... well, it was a big week for gaming in general, and Kickstarted games rose to the challenge! In fact,...
Shards Online plans wipe, drops NDA ahead of impending Steam launch
Shards Online's latest newsletter is homing in on the game's Steam launch. The game hit always-on alpha back in January, but now it's eyeing...
Massively Overthinking: Unholy MMORPG hybrids
Massively OP reader and frequent tipster Gibbins wants us to play match-maker.
"I love the wonderful world that Bethesda created with the Fallout franchise, not...
Mekria Online cancels its $110K Kickstarter
Just a week and a half ago, we told you all about Mekria Online, a brand-new in-development MMORPG focused on both PvE and PvP....
Video games have a bad year on Kickstarter
Polygon has an interesting piece up this week covering trends in crowdfunding projects... and the news isn't that great for video games.
According to the...
Redside, a fifth City of Heroes spiritual successor, takes the field
At this point, we have to ask whether we as an MMO community are being pranked on a large scale with a deluge of...
Make My MMO: Mekria, Caribbean Conquest, and RUiN hit Kickstarter (February 4, 2017)
It was a busy week for new MMO Kickstarters!
Mekria Online joins the Make My MMO watch list; it's a PvP-heavy MMO seeking $110,000.
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Age of Sail MMO Caribbean Conquest has returned to Kickstarter
Not quite a year ago, we did a brief piece on Caribbean Conquest, a sailing MMORPG that launched and then canceled a small Kickstarter....
Mekria Online MMO Kickstarter promises ‘a world of consequence’
Player choices with long-reaching consequences: These are the promises of Mekria Online, a new PvP-heavy MMO that's seeking some funding to push past the...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous betas Commanders 2.3 next month (January 28, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Frontier announced that the beta for Elite Dangerous' 2.3 update, dubbed Commanders, will release to Horizons beta players...
Dual Universe turns on test server and shows off its progress
Like a small child thrusting her coloring page at you in hopes of approval, Dual Universe is eager to for you to check out...
