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Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar’s R67, Destiny’s Sword’s successful Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar released its 67th update. In the release instructions, the devs note the update was intended...
Make My MMO: Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid is ‘feeling great’ about the game’s progress
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pantheon's Brad McQuaid posted a lengthy dev blog all about its use of Unity and how the game has...
Make My MMO: Temtem’s alpha, Destiny’s Sword Kickstarter midpoint
Last year's big crowdfunded MMO of the year, Temtem, officially rolled into alpha 0.2 this week, boasting "character customization, trading, new battle mechanics, minimap,...
Make My MMO: Boobs don’t work that way, League of Maidens
A few weeks ago we teased newly announced MMO Eternal Magic for offering a beauty contest "for the girls," which, OK, we all know...
Make My MMO: Playcraft’s Kickstarter ends May 28
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we're turning our eyes back to Playcraft, the MMO in which you build other MMOs. Its Kickstarter ends on...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s monthly studio report for… April
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we're in the back half of May now, and you know what that means: a rather belated studio report from...
Make My MMO: Who do you love now? HOVERBIKES
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen once again made headlines with a concept ship sale, though it wasn't actually for a ship -...
Make My MMO: Oath’s Kickstarter success, Star Citizen’s funding drama
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen made headlines once again thanks to a rather brutal article on Forbes that references everything from Chris...
Make My MMO: An Albion Online revisit and an OrbusVR relaunch
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we dived deep into one of the true successes of MMO crowdfunding: Albion Online. As of its original launch...
Make My MMO: City of Titans’ enemy mob design, Oath’s Kickstarter, and Star Citizen 3.5
This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's been superhero insanity, and I don't even mean City of Heroes. We got updates from Ship of Heroes...
Make My MMO: Albion Online is free-to-play, so of course the review bombing has begun
Never let it be said that no crowdfunded MMOs ever succeed: This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Albion Online launched for what one might...
Make My MMO: Oath is the latest MMORPG to launch on Kickstarter
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, a new Kickstarter contender has entered the ring! The game is called Oath, and Ready-Up Studios is asking...
Make My MMO: You can finally roll a female character in Star Citizen’s latest alpha
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen stole the show with the release of its 3.5 alpha to all backers. Most famously, this...
Indie hacking MMO Spycursion admits defeat on Kickstarter, but game development will continue
We've been tracking the Kickstarter for upcoming hacking MMO Spycursion for several weeks now, and it's coming down to its last two days. And...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s cash shop isn’t horsing around, Star Citizen’s playable female characters are finally here
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, beloved indie MMO Project Gorgon raised a few eyebrows this week by announcing a microtransaction cash shop that...
Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia’s quests, Dual Universe’s 30K, SOTA’s spring
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, spring has sprung in Shroud of the Avatar, whose latest community newsletter teases a bunny basket full of...
Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar shutters physical office, Ashes of Creation delays next alpha
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, we've seen what could be potential setbacks for two larger crowfunding MMORPGs. First, Shroud of the Avatar studio Portalarium...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s spaceports and alpha 3.5, Spycursion’s Kickstarter
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen dropped a nifty Around the Verse that focuses on the Area18 spaceport. Remember the demo video CIG...
Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar is rolling out player-created dungeon encounters this week
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for its 63rd release. Portalarium is currently testing pronged weapons, pirate cosmetics,...
Make My MMO: You can’t launch people from catapults in Ashes of Creation, but you can attend a play in Shroud of the Avatar
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation posted up a sizable Q&A on Reddit, telling its community that it's still working on support...