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Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the people of the MMORPG genre
It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...
Dual Universe’s new crowdfunding portal is now live
Didn't get around to backing Dual Universe back when it busted through its Kickstarter goal? Novaquark announced today that it would still like your...
Where is Jeremy Soule’s Kickstarter symphony?
Back in 2013, Composer Jeremy Soule (Landmark, Guild Wars 2) launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 to fund his personal project of creating...
Project Gorgon patches alpha while holding an Indiegogo contest
A smaller build went live in Project Gorgon's alpha this past week, bringing revisions to the hammer and ice magic skill sets. The hammer...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained likes big bots and it cannot lie (November 19, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, City State Entertainment posted a happy update for Camelot Unchained: Not only has the studio fixed the chat server problems...
Star Citizen plans to share internal timelines, justifies ship sales as not P2W
Star Citizen's latest newsletter does three things: celebrates the fourth anniversary of the game's Kickstarter, explains why you still don't know when the game...
Chronicles of Elyria overhauls its influence point system (again)
Chronicles of Elyria's most recent Kickstarter update is a bit of a screenshot dump, not that we're complaining. In addition to images of a...
Crowfall’s training montage demos the playable pre-alpha classes
Crowfall's latest video is a montage -- the best kind of montage, a training montage! It shows training cycles for the eight classes currently...
Crowfall studio joins Indiegogo’s equity crowdfunding platform
Crowdfunding activists and haters should point their eyeballs at Indiegogo today, as the crowdfunding platform has just announced that it's launching a new equity...
Make My MMO: Hero’s Song’s early access, Ascent’s presidency (November 12, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Hero's Song launched into early access on Steam, allowing anyone with 20 bucks into the alpha test phase....
Shroud of the Avatar previews Yule, toilets, and a player-run bay
Put away your fall decor; it's Christmas in Shroud of the Avatar. Not really, but Portalarium's latest newsletter does detail the creation of craftable...
Dual Universe on post-Kickstarter funding and mining in the sandbox
Dual Universe's latest newsletter since its successful Kickstarter funding back in October is out this week. Novaquark tells players that it's almost finished building...
Project Gorgon is 25% funded on Indiegogo
Project Gorgon has raised a quarter of its goal on Indiegogo as of today and has tweaked a few pledge tiers, a new update...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s $3M, Gorgon’s Indiegogo, Nebula’s launch (November 5, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news was a surprisingly big one for the genre! First, Crowfall broke $3,000,000 in crowdfunding to date, bringing the...
The Endless Forest devs seek funds for a remake
Back in 2006, one of the strangest MMORPG-slash-screensavers ever made was released and then promptly ignored by the mainstream. The Endless Forest, "a whimsical multiplayer...
Buy a Massively OP ‘MoCree’ Overwatch parody tee in honor of BlizzCon
If Massively Overpowered's Mo and the Sword & Bored comic crew went to BlizzCon, whom would they cosplay? "Over"watch characters, of course.
Introducing the official...
Wasteland 3 concludes wildly successful crowdfunding campaign
It is a very good week for InXile Entertainment indeed: The indie studio raked in $3.12 million toward Wasteland 3, concluding a very successful...
Chronicles of Elyria reaches gambling stretch goal, eyes pet and mount customization
Good news for the shifty bluffers out there: Chronicles of Elyria has reached its $1.5 million stretch goal, which means that the team is...
Massively Overthinking: The MMORPG board games connection
MOP reader Kastaguro sent us an interesting question last month about MMORPGs, board games, and a possible playerbase shift.
"I was wondering if any of...
Crowfall outlines its persistent world testing schedule
There comes a point with any game's testing when you have to just turn on the servers and leave them on. Sure, it's nice to...
