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Video games on Kickstarter continue to struggle thanks to fading consumer confidence
Earlier this week, we got SuperData's mid-year report on the booming video game industry, the enormous multinational congloms rolling around in piles of cash-shop...
Make My MMO: Valiance Online’s founder alpha has begun (July 29, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Valiance Online took everyone by surprise by announcing the launch of its investor alpha on PC for Friday, though...
Make My MMO: Albion Online joins the list of launched crowdfunded MMORPGs (July 22, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, indie sandbox Albion Online -- whose 250,000 founders reportedly crowdfunded the game for almost $10,000,000 -- formally launched. The...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s derelict ships’ Firefly and Star Wars inspiration (July 15, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen released a new cinematic trailer featuring characters checking out derelict ships in-game, both on the surface and in...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.0 has been delayed again (July 9, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen dropped more than just its work on procedural planets and moon: It also posted its 3.0 production schedule...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous journeys to PS4, we interview Kickstarted MMO devs (July 1, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Frontier launched Elite Dangerous for the PS4, complete with relevant adjustments for touchpad controls and a "fast headlook" mode for...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen sells 14K concept ships in 24 hours (June 24, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen followers once again proved their game's dominance by purchasing 14,000 of its new Nox concept ships in less...
Make My MMO: Broke Protocol launches early access after failed Kickstarter (June 10, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Minecraft-meets-GTAO MMO Broke Protocol's Kickstarter ended unsuccessfully on Thursday, but the good news is that the game launched its early access...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, Shroud of the Avatar’s equity crowdfund (June 3, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter came to a close with $3.2M and nearly 20,000 backers, making it the biggest MMORPG Kickstarter...
Make My MMO: Legends of Aria’s alpha, Ashes of Creation’s lofty ambitions (May 27, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Legends of Aria -- which we'll probably never stop accidentally calling Shards Online -- began its alpha, introducing testers and...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen has now raised $150M in crowdfunds (May 20, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen officially broke the $150,000,000 crowdfunding mark, propelled along by gamers sinking large sums of cash into the latest...
Make My MMO: Wild West Online debuts, Ashes of Creation nears $2M (May 13, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, 612 Games announced Wild West Online, a US western-themed game that the devs are definitely calling an MMO, though it looks...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, ROKH’s early access, Valiance’s map (May 6, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation made the leap to Kickstarter, raising (so far as I type this) 1.35M, far more than its...
Make My MMO: Crowfall adds geomancy and architecture skills (April 29, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Crowfall canceled its weekend playtest, but not before issuing a dev blog updating the community on some of the crafting changes...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s Star Kitten, Project Gorgon’s gorgeousness (April 22, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen built on the contentious infodump of last weekend with the news that it's running a contest to encourage backers...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s roadmap, Elite Dangerous’ Commanders, and Starfighter’s successful Kickstarter (April 15, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's been a battle of the space MMOs.
Elite: Dangerous rolled out its Commanders 2.3 update, introducing what our own...
Make My MMO: Ship of Heroes’ canceled Kickstarter, Edengrad’s early access (April 8, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, City of Heroes-inspired superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes launched its Kickstarter, seeking $400,000. But three days later, Heroic Games canceled the...
Multiplayer space sim Starfighter Inc. has 12 days to finish raising $150K
We've been covering Starfighter Inc. for the last few weeks in Make My MMO, but apparently a lot of you folks who say you...
Make My MMO: Elite’s Commanders, SOTA’s R40, Starfighter’s AMA (April 1, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite: Dangerous rather unceremoniously announced on social media that the 2.3 Commanders update will launch around the middle of April...
Kickstarter celebrates 10,000 funded games projects
Kickstarter announced last week that donors have officially backed 10,000 funded games projects.
That's almost 2.5 million people pledging $613 million; more than half of...
