mmo industry
Make My MMO: The Repopulation’s new owner, Shards Online’s alpha (January 14, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Above & Beyond announced that Hero Engine company Idea Fabrik has acquired all rights to its indie sci-fi sandbox...
Make My MMO: Refunds for Hero’s Song (January 7, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, refunds continue for Hero's Song, which was canceled the day after Christmas with the promise to reimburse all...
Make My MMO: Shards Online’s January alpha, Star Citizen’s Star Marine (December 24, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shards Online announced it'll kick off its alpha early in the new year, on January 13th. "Based on the...
Make My MMO: Elyria concedes coiffure complaints (December 17, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria brought up that most critical of MMORPG features: hairstyles. I'm not even kidding; not 10 days...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation aims for Kickstarter, Elite Dangeous aims for PS4 (December 10, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news -- or future crowdfunding news, as the case may be -- we learned all about Ashes of Creation,...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s big world playtest, Star Citizen’s alpha 2.6 (December 3, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, ArtCraft says over 9000 gamers have been invited to try to break the three alpha servers active during Crowfall's "Big...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained likes big bots and it cannot lie (November 19, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, City State Entertainment posted a happy update for Camelot Unchained: Not only has the studio fixed the chat server problems...
Make My MMO: Hero’s Song’s early access, Ascent’s presidency (November 12, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Hero's Song launched into early access on Steam, allowing anyone with 20 bucks into the alpha test phase....
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s $3M, Gorgon’s Indiegogo, Nebula’s launch (November 5, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news was a surprisingly big one for the genre! First, Crowfall broke $3,000,000 in crowdfunding to date, bringing the...
EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions
Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...
Make My MMO: Big updates for Elite Dangerous and Shroud of the Avatar (October 29, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Elite Dangerous' massive Guardians expansion went live this week, introducing new features to the space epic including multi-person...
Make My MMO: Kickstarted MMO AdventureQuest 3D launches open beta (October 22, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, AdventureQuest 3D burst into open beta, rolling out to players on PC, Android, and iOS. The cutesy combat...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you think is more important than people realize?
Here at Massively Overpowered, we talk a lot about MMOs. (Shocking, I know.) Some of that means covering games that other people just plain...
Make My MMO: Dual Universe fully funds (October 15, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, congrats are due to Dual Universe, the sci-fi sandbox whose Kickstarter successfully funded on Tuesday with over 8100 backers...
Make My MMO: Dual Universe funds, Hero’s Song doesn’t, and CitizenCon begins (October 8, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen has begun its pre-CitizenCon festivities with multi-hour streaming yesterday and today, culminating in a grand presentation by CIG's Chris...
Make My MMO: Elyria’s funding and Osiris’ console plans (October 1, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria caused an unintentional stir this week when Soulbound Studios posted that it still needed up to...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s faces, SOTA’s memorial, Hero’s Song’s AMA (September 24, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen stole the show, first with a video showcasing its extraordinarily detailed character face tech, then rather...
Make My MMO: Indiegogo campaigns for Mark Kern and John Smedley (September 17, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news was one of the biggest we've had all year for crowdfunded games. Former Firefall boss Mark Kern made...
Make My MMO: New biome for Camelot Unchained; new campaigns for Hero’s Song, Dual Universe (Sept. 10, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, our own MJ - MJ Guthrie, that is - returned from DragonCon with reports from several crowdfunded MMORPG...
The Daily Grind: Do low-budget imported MMOs have a place in the current market?
The sad news about Asta and ELOA's upcoming closure prompted a musing from longtime commenter GreaterDivinity regarding the import-run-close model that has long been...
