Official Site: Legends of Aria
Studio: Citadel Studios
Launch Date: N/A
Genre: Moddable Sandbox MMORPG
Business Model: B2P
Platform: PC
Originally titled Shards Online
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Legends of Aria plays around with permadeath during today’s event
You might recall that one of the original tenants of Shards Online -- now Legends of Aria -- was the ability for players to...
Legends of Aria tests realm capacity with a large-scale invasion event on Saturday
How many players can a single realm of Legends of Aria support? There are lots of ways to find out, but there's only one...
Video essay examines the indie MMO nostalgia trend
YouTuber The Hive Leader stirred up a lot of discussion this past weekend with a new video essay called "Nostalgia and Indie MMOs." In...
Legends of Aria eyes October for Steam early access
The Legends of Aria team sounds as if it has a lot on its plate right now. The team posted a road to launch...
Global Chat: Getting a handle on Legends of Aria
One of the great benefits of reading the wealth of MMO blogs out there is that you can touch base on a huge variety...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen in small claims court, Fractured nearing the finish line (July 21, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Fractured ramped up its Kickstarter dev blogs as it nears the finish line of its crowdfunding effort, which ends...
Betawatch: Legends of Aria wants you to break it (July 20, 2018)
Please, break the servers for Legends of Aria. The developers want you to break the servers. There's a big event this weekend and everyone...
The Stream Team: Looking at Legends of Aria’s closed beta
Alpha is but a memory from the past -- Legends of Aria has moved on to closed beta. That means Massively OP's MJ needs...
Make My MMO: Aria’s second closed beta, Star Citizen’s protest, and Crowfall’s engine on the market (July 15, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we got our first hints of "emergent gameplay" in Star Citizen as a group of players took over a refueling...
Want to try Legends of Aria? We’ve got trial keys just in time for the closed beta 2 launch!
It's a big day for indie MMORPG Legends of Aria, as its second closed beta official kicks off with a server wipe and a...
Make My MMO: Fractured and TemTem work Kickstarter as Elite, SOTA, and Aria post big updates (July 1, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding is one of the biggest ever for this little subgenre, make no mistake. TemTem is about to fund. Fractured's Kickstarter...
Betawatch: Saga of Lucimia’s combat is updated for pre-alpha (June 29, 2018)
The nice thing about early testing is that big things can change and it's really all part of the experience. Sure, Saga of Lucimia...
Legends of Aria has a huge graphics upgrade in store for closed beta as it kicks off a community scavenger hunt
Legends of Aria has a big reveal today: It's completely revamped its graphics ahead of its second closed beta. The word Citadel uses is...
Betawatch: Star Citizen and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week (June 15, 2018)
Oh, boy, Star Citizen. It's been a week. First, the little boy who would never lose faith in you lost faith in you. In...
Legends of Aria makes combat more sensible and nerfs fast travel in its latest update
It's a big day for Legends of Aria and its beta testers, as the game is undergoing some pretty meaty changes to combat and...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.2 goes to the Evocati on the PTU, TemTem has already tripled its Kickstarter ask (June 9, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen continued inching its way toward alpha 3.2, as the latest build has hit the PTU for the early "Evocati"...
Legends of Aria overhauls its combat system, adds better fast travel
Fight for your right to party, kids! Or at least for your chance at loot assigned by an unfeeling, uncaring random number generator. Legends...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation gears up for Alpha One (June 8, 2018)
Names are fun! Ashes of Creation has already held an alpha test, but that alpha zero. This upcoming test will be alpha one. And...
Legends of Aria hopes to recruit newbies to test the game with free trial keys
It's Bring-a-Friend Week in Legends of Aria, but you're going to need a working email account. That's because Citadel Studios wants you to email...
Legends of Aria disables its map hotkey with the newest patch
The developers of Legends of Aria don't want you opening a world map any more. You shouldn't have a world map in a sandbox,...