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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...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s subber promo, Planet Nomads’ early access, Project Gorgon’s bards (March 25, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen capped off a week of DirectX revelations and mega map explanations with a round of celebrations -- for its...
Kickstarted survival sandbox Planet Nomads hits early access on April 18
Planet Nomads is one of those gorgeous sci-fi multiplayer survival sandboxes that's been kicking around on our Make My MMO list for so long...
Make My MMO: Pathfinder is alive, Starfighter seeks crowdfunds (March 18, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pathfinder Online resurfaced this weekend with good and bad news. Paizo's Lisa Stevens tells fans that efforts and research into selling...
Make My MMO: Shards becomes Legends of Aria, The Repopulation revivifies (March 11, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Shards Online surprised the gamer community by announcing a namechange -- to Legends of Aria -- and a scope-change, the...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s crafting, RUiN’s Kickstarter, Ashes of Creation’s gameplay (March 4, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we sent MOP's Matt Daniel into Crowfall, from which he emerged with many opinions on the state of the game's...
Make My MMO: The Exiled arrives to mixed reviews on Steam (February 25, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, The Exiled was released to the wilds of Steam early access. Formerly called Das Tal, the buy-to-play indie sandbox attempted to...
Make My MMO: Smed’s new studio, Camelot’s beta, and Elite’s Holo-Me (February 18, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we did a retrospective on why crowdfunded MMOARPG Hero's Song failed. It's almost as if Justin knew (cue spooky music) because...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained, Mekria, TUG, and more (February 11, 2017)
This week in MMO crowfunding was... well, it was a big week for gaming in general, and Kickstarted games rose to the challenge! In fact,...
Make My MMO: Mekria, Caribbean Conquest, and RUiN hit Kickstarter (February 4, 2017)
It was a busy week for new MMO Kickstarters!
Mekria Online joins the Make My MMO watch list; it's a PvP-heavy MMO seeking $110,000.
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Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous betas Commanders 2.3 next month (January 28, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Frontier announced that the beta for Elite Dangerous' 2.3 update, dubbed Commanders, will release to Horizons beta players...
