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Make My MMO: Pantheon’s early access, Ship of Heroes’ launch window, Star Citizen’s alpha 4.0
Welcome back to Make My MMO - technically our last edition before the turn of the year, though next week we're doing a full...
MMO Week in Review: New World’s roadmap, Corepunk’s early access
After weeks of needling, Amazon finally delivered a roadmap for New World this week: The studio is introducing what it's calling "seasonal worlds," the...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen passes $750M in crowdfunding because y’all have no self-control
It's been over 12 years since Star Citizen's record-setting Kickstarter, and while the game is still being dragged through alpha, its crowdfunding has only...
MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft will be ‘home’ by Midnight
Most MMO players who thought World of Warcraft should have housing also never expected it to happen, largely because, you know, the devs kept...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous’s Ascendancy, Embers Adrift’s misfortune
Kickstarted MMORPGs have been a rollercoaster over the last few weeks: Elite Dangerous is finally getting a major revival with the release of Ascendancy....
Make My MMO: Star Citizen opens CitizenCon, Fractured eyes F2P, Fractured Veil and Shadow’s Kiss sunset
Star Citizen's CitizenCon event kicked off this morning under a cloud of drama as backers tuned in to see where the game and S42...
Make My MMO: My Time at Evershine zooms past 1.2 million dollars on Kickstarter
Cozy multiplayer title My Time at Evershine joins our crowdfunding list in this week's edition of Make My MMO - triumphantly, even, as the...
Make My MMO: Pricing shifts for Shroud of the Avatar, Embers Adrift, and Ashes of Creation
Would you pay $27 for a subscription to an MMORPG? Lord British's tiny and controversial crowdfunded MMO Shroud of the Avatar is going to...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s alpha 2, Dual Universe’s player hosting
It's been an interesting summer for crowdfunded MMOs. Ashes of Creation has hit August running, first with a preview of the Bard class, then...
Make My MMO: Fractured’s launch, Zenith’s maintenance mode
It's been a weird couple of weeks in MMO crowdfunding - with both a launch and an almost-sunset. First, Fractured Online has finally launched...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s hardcore living, Ashes of Creation’s alpha 2
Project Gorgon rolled out a big patch at the tail end of June, adding a new dungeon, a hardcore hardcore living skill, and more...
Make My MMO: Britaria is dead, long live Legends of Aria
Another one bites the dust? This week, we learned that the crypto version of Legends of Aria, Britaria, has completely folded. It's not a...
MMO Week in Review: Pandaria Remix, Loot Reborn, Wayfinder Echoes
What a hell of a week for the MMO genre! Good and bad, as it were. We got previews of FFXIV Dawntrail, Guild Wars 2's...
Make My MMO: Wagadu’s untimely end, Legends of Aria’s new beginning
The grave is claiming another Kickstarted MMORPG: The Wagadu Chronicles developer Twin Drums announced in May that it'll throw in the towel on the...
Make My MMO: Starship Simulator’s $500K Kickstarter, Legends of Aria’s revival
The last few weeks have been absolutely packed for MMO crowdfunding news. To wit:
Legends of Aria aka Shards Online is back! The original...
Make My MMO: Starship Simulator has pulled in $350K on Kickstarter so far
It's only April and we might just have our biggest MMO Kickstarter of the year in the form of the new sci-fi multiplayer sandbox...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained and Star Citizen eye 1.0 launches
It's been a fairly dramatic couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs! Top of the pile is surely the fact that Kickstarted MMORPG Camelot Unchained...
Make My MMO: Scars of Honor’s Kickstarter, Temtem’s and Zenith’s spinoff drama
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! We've got three specific newish Kickstarters to talk about.
Galactic Getaway,...
MMO Week in Review: Skull & Bones departs drydock
Skull & Bones finally drifted into its soft launch open beta after eleventy billion delays and do-overs, and... it's actually not terrible? And it's...
Make My MMO: Zenith’s spinoff game, EVE Online’s board game Kickstarter
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks!
It's been pretty hoppin' for Kickstarted MMOs lately, as Elite Dangerous is...