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Indie Harry Potter MMO slapped with cease and desist
Let this be an important lesson to any would-be game designers: If you try to make a game based on a very well-known IP...
Trials of Ascension cancels second Kickstarter campaign
What crowdfunding giveth, crowdfunding also withholdeth. This is the hard lesson that Trials of Ascension has had to learn, not once, but twice.
Less than...
Crowfall will be powered by Unity 5
The newly released Unity 5 cross-platform game engine will be responsible for driving at least one upcoming title: Crowfall.
The team said that it's been...
Crowfall explains what you can take out of a dying world
By now, most of you know that Crowfall's PvP campaigns will take place on time-limited worlds that will come to a definite end. But...
Make My MMO: February 28, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Crowfall basically blotted out the sun. The "throne war simulator" surpassed its $800,000 goal in a couple of...
Kickstarter Overpowered: Week three, PAX, and Mo
The Massively Overpowered Kickstarter campaign is nearing $69K with over 1500 backers -- we're still blown away by that! We've got just a week...
Betawatch: February 27, 2015
Skyforge announced its upcoming closed beta schedule this week; expect the first round to begin on March 11th. You can ensure a spot in the...
Crowfund: Crowfall easily passes its fundrasing goal
Call it Crowfund. In only a few short days, Crowfall has passed its $800,000 crowdfunding goal -- and there looks to be no end...
Massively Overthinking: Impressions of Crowfall
We've got crows on the brain this week since Crowfall launched its Kickstarter. As of this afternoon, the game is just about 100k shy of...
Global Chat: Business model first, game construction second
Welcome back to Global Chat, the column where we reach out and give props to interesting and well-written articles from the MMO blogosphere. Today...
Crowfall pushes its Game of Thrones connection
If you've gotten the eerie feeling that Crowfall is not-so-subtly trying to establish a connection in fans' minds between the MMO and the hit...
Crowfall: The ultimate union of MMOs and strategy
What do you get when you take a few of the most experienced developers in the MMO industry and give them the freedom to...
Crowfall is launching a Kickstarter campaign tomorrow
"Throne war simulator" Crowfall has been tick-tocking its way down a 40-day timer for the last, well, 39 days. Now ArtCraft Entertainment has foreshadowed tomorrow's big...
Make My MMO: February 21, 2015
Welcome back to Make My MMO, a recurring column from Massively-that-was which covers crowdsourced MMOs of both the fully funded and the not-so-much variety....
Trials of Ascension attempts another Kickstarter campaign
Permadeath, corpse looting, and no mini-map: Will this be tempting enough to get the community on board with donations? Trials of Ascension hopes so,...
Working As Intended: ‘Multiplex monotony’ and the death of the mid-budget MMORPG
Back in December, film editor and author Jason Bailey wrote a piece on Flavorwire called How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left a Generation...
Kickstarter Overpowered: Week two’s new video
The Massively Overpowered Kickstarter campaign is now half over: two weeks in, two weeks left to go. We're tickled to now have over 1400...
Nebula Online seeks crowdfunding for ‘perfect’ sci-fi MMO
What is it about outer space that elicits the cutthroat nature of sci-fi MMOs? Well, get ready to go on that adventure again, as...
The Soapbox: The crowdfunding conundrum
As I type this, Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign sits comfortably at $54,323. We hit our initial $50k funding goal in roughly 48 hours. We're...
Kickstarter Overpowered: Week one summary
As of today, we've been running the Massively Overpowered Kickstarter campaign for just one week. We can't believe the outpouring of support you've given us...
