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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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...
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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,...
Make My MMO: Albion Online hits Steam, Camelot Unchained tackles crafting (May 19, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, buy-to-play sandbox Albion Online, which launched back in 2017, formally landed on Steam, bringing its blend of PvP warfare...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with different (camera) perspectives
By the time that World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, the MMORPG industry had already gravitated toward standard when it came...
Betawatch: World of Warcraft moves Battle for Azeroth to beta testing (April 27, 2018)
We spent most of this week watching the slow-motion (and not-so-slow-motion) implosion of a well-known company, so it's easy for big beta news to...
Legends of Aria works toward June open beta
Hope you haven't booked that summer vacation just yet, because Legends of Aria would like to interest in a fantasy holiday. The studio announced...
Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018
The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
PAX East 2018: Catching up on Legends of Aria’s improvements since the last PAX
When I saw Legends of Aria last year, right after it had dropped the Shards Online name and expanded to be a full-fledged MMORPG,...
Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar sheds its early access… shroud (March 31, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar formally launched with the release of R52 this week, which might be confusing to gamers...
GDC 2018: The Legends of Aria devs talk closed beta, gankbox PvP, and the MMORPG genre
One thing I love about GDC compared to other conventions I cover is how many actual developers I get to talk to, especially without...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous players expose ‘wanker function’ hacker (March 24, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite Dangerous players scoped out the dirty doings of the paid HCS voice pack plugin, which was apparently intentionally and...
Betawatch: A Bless Online-ed event (March 23, 2018)
After all of the false starts, delays, and dearths of information, we finally know the truth this week. Bless Online is coming to early...
