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MMO Business Roundup: Steam Game Festival, My.Games, Taipei Gameshow, Niantic, and RazerCon
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and gaming industry news relevant to the MMO-playing audience.
Steam Game Festival: Yes, another online event! The "autumn...
Make My MMO: Wagadu and Ilysia breeze past Kickstarter goals
It's been a positively packed couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs new and old. A few of the highlights:
Afrofantasy MMO The Wagadu Chronicles...
Make My MMO: TitanReach and Ilysia head to Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Titan Reach kicked off its Kickstarter, seeking $428,000 US to fund a modern take on an "old-school" MMO set...
Make My MMO: Dual Universe’s beta – its ‘fully playable version’ – is up and away
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Dual Universe hit true beta, dropping its NDA and swelling its ranks far past the 20,000 testers who were...
Make My MMO: Crowfall extends its beta as the superhero MMOs vie for testers
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Crowfall blasted into beta, becoming the latest crowdfunded MMORPG to break through that barrier. In fact, it's even extended...
Make My MMO: Oath’s alpha never happened and probably never will
So who remembers indie MMO Oath? In the spring of 2019, the game pulled in $67,000 on Kickstarter, in spite of concerns about the...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen fashion, Triton Survival, and Legends of Aria’s launch
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen posted an infographic on its fashion cosmetics, Albion Online previewed its August release, Legends of Aria finally...
Make My MMO: Illness stymied Project Gorgon’s genetics patch, Dawngate revival goes to Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we learned Project Gorgon's genetics system patch has been postponed very so slightly as a result of the serious...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous’ Odyssey is a challenge to Star Citizen
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite Dangerous formally announced the Odyssey expansion coming in 2021, which will put players on the ground, literally, as...
Make My MMO: Elite’s beta blowout, Crowfall’s latest alpha
It's been a big couple of weeks in MMO crowdfunding, at least if you're watching the development of crowdfunded games: Star Citizen is running...
Make My MMO: Kickstarted social MMO Book of Travels has journeyed into closed beta
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Book of Travels, named MOP's Most Anticipated MMO at the tail end of last year, rolled into its closed beta...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s Dregs GvG campaign is live for alpha players
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Crowfall has added the Dregs guild-vs.-guild campaign world to phase 2 of its ongoing alpha, marking what ArtCraft says is...
Make My MMO: Fractured’s June alpha will include its first attempt at proper player cities
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Fractured's current alpha test will come to a close, but don't fret: Dynamight is plotting the next round for June,...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon is working on an epic animal husbandry system
This week in MMO crowdfunding, MOP reader Dalton tipped us off to some fun stuff brewing in the near future for Project Gorgon. "Animal...
Make My MMO: Following Chronicles of Elyria reports, state attorney general addresses crowdfunding scams
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Chronicles of Elyria stirred fresh drama, as Soulbound Studios appeared to backtrack on its announcement that it had folded...
Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria becomes the highest-profile MMORPG Kickstarter to crash and burn
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Soulbound Studios, the team behind MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria, announced that the game was on indefinite hold and all...
Make My MMO: Occupy White Walls, Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff, and Saga of Lucimia
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we've actually got two new relevant-to-us Kickstarters to linger over. Art-curation MMO Occupy White Walls, which has been in...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous’ Fuel Rats have rescued 70,000 ships
This week in MMO crowdfunding, I needed something heartwarming, so there it is: The Fuel Rats, the folks who run around in Elite Dangerous...
Make My MMO: OrbusVR gets a permanent price cut, Book of Travels talks art
This week in MMO crowdfunding, OrbusVR, one of the few virtual reality MMOs out there, announced and implemented a permanent price cut to $19.99...
Make My MMO: Dragon Eye Online has entered alpha
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Dragon Eye Online, an MMO that was Kickstarted last year, hit alpha. It's a pixel MMO that touts its...