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Camelot Unchained’s December dev blog touts $15M investment as a ‘level up’...
Last month’s $15M investment round is high on the mind of Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs, as he opens up the game’s December development report with a lot of exaltation at the fresh infusion of cash...
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Camelot Unchained details the Vox Messoris and siege changes with its latest...
So Camelot Unchained got an infusion of $15 million of investment back in November. Were you hoping that this would mean the monthly newsletters wouldn’t just be filled with pictures of different kinds...
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End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that “MMOs are dying?” If that was actually true, then my job to round up all of the up-and-coming titles every year would be far simpler. I’d look...
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Camelot Unchained shows off scads of St’rm, notes new hires, and continues...
Hey friends, do you like playable lizard races? Then you’re going to get a cold-blooded kick out of Camelot Unchained’s recent newsletter, which focuses on the draconic St’rm race as it arrives to the...
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City State says new hires put Camelot Unchained progress ‘ahead of schedule,’...
A significant hiring push is proving to be a “big assist” in the effort to get Camelot Unchained finished, City State’s Mark Jacobs said in this week’s repot. “With the folks we have joining us in...
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Camelot Unchained improves Valkyrie race, says 10-year-old project is gaining...
Winged warriors are at the forefront of Camelot Unchained’s latest newsletter. The RvR MMO spent the month shaping up its Valkyrie race to look at fearsome as they act in healer, bard, and magic roles....
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Betawatch: Wayfinder catches the delay bug
If you felt like Wayfinder was really just cruising along and fast-tracking its way to beta, well… we have a bit of bad news for you. The game has delayed its global beta until May and early access...
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10-year-old Camelot Unchained outlines crafting, encumbrance, and NPC AI...
We’re past the month of April, and that means another couple of consolidated updates from Camelot Unchained, as it gesticulates in the direction of all kinds of work and progress on the MMORPG in its...
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Camelot Unchained discusses the effects of alloys on crafting and a wholesale...
Apparently, Camelot Unchained had to burn down its entire UI system and build it from scratch. That revelation was part of the developing MMORPG’s latest newsletter, which not only announced that City...
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Camelot Unchained boss discusses the MMO’s dungeon building tool and...
While a lot of what the 10-year-old in-development MMO Camelot Unchained talked about in its last newsletter was about UI updates and alloys, there have been other steps forward as well, which were...
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Camelot Unchained recaps crafting mods, environment ‘style packs,’ and more...
Here in early July, Camelot Unchained is once more offering its customary reports about June’s development progress in its standard newsletter and dev blog formats, which means it’s time to bring...
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Camelot Unchained provides a closer look at its new character progression system
You might be surprised to learn that City State Entertainment is working on a character progression system for Camelot Unchained after 10 years of development, but you also might have forgotten that...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMO things you can just stop waiting for
Sooner or later we all have to face facts and accept that something we wanted at one point is never actually going to happen. Dad is never coming back from the store with cigarettes, Godot is never...
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Ten-year-old Camelot Unchained gets all technical and mechanical with this...
For you patient and persistent fans of Camelot Unchained, City State Entertainment put out its 101st newsletter for the long-in-the-coming MMORPG. This time around, the team talked about the...
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Camelot Unchained heralds improved performance for AMD systems, AoE effects,...
The inexorable march of tech progress is always a thing that game devs have to consider, especially if you’re Camelot Unchained, an MMORPG that has been in development for 10 years going. Meeting the...
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Rumor: Pantheon leaks suggest a monetized spin-off mode is en route for testing
The Pantheon Rise of the Fallen community is in uproar this morning over apparent leaks from the game’s VIP backer section – regardless of whether they’re mad someone leaked it or mad about the content...
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Pantheon confirms ‘247’ extraction play mode rumors: ‘This is not a...
Yesterday, we covered turmoil in the Pantheon Rise of the Fallen community stemming from multiple leaks from the game’s VIP backer Discord. The leaker had posted purported messages from Visionary...
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Massively Overthinking: Are there any MMOs for which a spin-off mode would be...
Pantheon’s announcement that its developers are working on spinning out a monetized “247” extraction mode hasn’t engendered a whole lot of hope for the future of the Kickstarted game, though it’s hard...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024
It’s time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what’s going to happen next year. Yes, this Massively Overthinking will round up...
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Camelot Unchained heralds the start of its next beta and hints at ‘good news’...
A short holiday address from Camelot Unchained pretty much continues the trend of vaguely promising forward momentum on the PvP MMORPG, which hints at the laying of a “strong foundation” as development...
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Betawatch: Camelot Unchained promises good news in 2024
Look, Camelot Unchained, I see you promising good things for 2024. I am glad that January will mark a new push of the game to beta backers, and that is a good thing. But your title has now been in...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we – well, I – keep tabs on all of the crowdfunded MMOs in our genre, as well as all the ones that attempted...
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The Daily Grind: Who told the biggest gaming fib of 2023?
Did you know I keep a list of quotes and fibs? Well, you probably did, since we already did our annual piece on the quotes of the year, and I always have a big list. But the biggest fibs of the year...
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End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond
We’ve said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we’ve seen only a handful of longshot projects in development, 2024 suggests a field...
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Almost 11 years post-Kickstarter, Camelot Unchained devs are working on UI,...
Camelot Unchained is moving into its 11th year of development this month, and it looks as if most of the work focus from City State Entertainment is improving what’s been built, with specific upgrades...
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Camelot Unchained’s latest newsletter reaffirms its old-school business model
We’ve had one Camelot Unchained newsletter, yes, but what about second newsletter? Then prepare for paragraphs from City State Entertainment as it showcases the work of animation debugging and lighting...
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Crowfall owner Monumental hit with layoffs while eyeing blockchain
The question of Crowfall’s existence has been an unanswered one for quite some time ever since the game was purchased by Mythgard publisher Monumental in 2021, followed by the game going offline in...
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10-year-old Camelot Unchained is launching ‘late next year’ following CSE...
So, remember Camelot Unchained? The throwback sandbox MMORPG that was Kickstarted way back in 2013, hit beta in 2018, then added a second game to its repertoire all while stiffing some of its angriest...
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Betawatch: Camelot Unchained claims it’s finally launching late in 2025
Well, what do you know, Camelot Unchained has declared a launch window of late 2025. It’s going to launch! Can you believe that? Can you? Do you believe that? Because I find it somewhat dubious after a...
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The Daily Grind: So who thinks Camelot Unchained is really launching next year?
Unchained Games fka City State Entertainment is one of the rare few studios that gets a standard disclaimer in our posts, and for those out of the loop on this, it’s because the last few years of...
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First impressions: Final Stand Ragnarok is not Camelot Unchained, but it’s a...
At the top of 2020, when City State Entertainment’s Mark Jacobs first announced Final Stand Ragnarok – called Project Colossus back then – it was major news here in the core MMORPG genre. Just as COVID...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 461: Dune Awakening rises from its slumber
Justin and Bree discuss Camelot Unchained, Final Stand Ragnarok, WoW Cataclysm Classic, Dune Awakening, New World, and Albion Online, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and...
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Camelot Unchained prequel Final Stand Ragnarok launches into early access –...
As we noted earlier this week, the Camelot Unchained spinoff game Final Stand Ragnarok is launching today into its most formal early access yet. Readers will recall this is actually not its first rodeo...
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The Stream Team: Making a quick jaunt into Final Stand Ragnarok
MOP’s Chris is off to face Ragnarok. More specifically, he’s off to face Final Stand Ragnarok to take his first-ever look at this early access multiplayer brawler. He’s not out to pass final judgment...
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Final Stand Ragnarok releases 1.0 update with updated maps and hero models
Unchained Entertainment fka City State Entertainment launched Camelot Unchained prequel Final Stand Ragnarok into its third and final early access earlier this month, kicking off a new rush of...
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Not So Massively: Final Stand Ragnarok might be the seed of a fun game, but...
Not being a PvP fan, I haven’t had much investment in the long and tortured saga of Camelot Unchained, but I am a fan of Norse mythology and co-op action, so I was happy to grab a review key for the...
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Camelot Unchained side game Final Stand Ragnarok adds a beta version of a new...
Do you remember Final Stand: Ragnarok? It’s been a bit since we got news from the game: Readers will remember this as the spinoff/prequel of Camelot Unchained from developer Unchained Entertainment...
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Final Stand Ragnarok re-emerges with a new champion, progression overhaul,...
So. Final Stand: Ragnarok. You all remember that game? It’s the side project of Camelot Unchained studio Unchained Development that went into its third early access release this past March and is still...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It’s time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And as usual, we have to add a caveat here that just because we think...
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End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond
As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless potential, my friends. And while we don’t know...
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Vague Patch Notes: The unsettling optics of the Stars Reach Kickstarter
As soon as I saw the news that Stars Reach was going to be launching a Kickstarter, I immediately stood up, got dressed, and drove down to the nearest beach. It’s January, so it was cold, but it’s New...
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Camelot Unchained studio Unchained Entertainment reportedly laid off 40% of...
We’ve got some bad news for fans and followers of Camelot Unchained: It appears that Mark Jacobs’ studio Unchained Entertainment has lost a large chunk of its team. Andrew Meggs, a former co-founder of...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 503: The Quinfail
Justin and Bree discuss The Quinfall's messy early access, Camelot Unchained's worrisome future, New World's broken servers, and Throne and Liberty's server merge, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallout 76,...
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Following painful layoffs, Camelot Unchained is apparently still planning to...
Earlier this month, we expressed serious concern over the fate of Camelot Unchained when it became clear that studio Unchained Entertainment had laid off 24 of its 55 developers owing to (we theorized)...
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MMO Hype Train: Is there any hope – or hype – left for Camelot Unchained?
If there’s any developer alive who knows realm-vs-realm MMO design better than Mark Jacobs, I haven’t met him or her. Jacobs and Mythic Entertainment made an MMO genre name for themselves with 2001’s...
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After going dark for months, Camelot Unchained will preview its progress in...
MMO players have been worried and frustrated over the state of Camelot Unchained for ages now, but we’re finally getting some movement. Readers will surely recall that the Kickstarted MMORPG led by...
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We’re finally getting our first glimpse of 12-year-old Camelot Unchained...
Today is the day: the day when we finally learn what the hell is going on with Camelot Unchained. MMORPG vets will surely already know some of the backstory here. CU was originally Kickstarted in 2013...
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Betawatch: Camelot Unchained is alive, Odin Valhalla Rising is launched
So Camelot Unchained is 12 years old. This would be impressive if the game had launched during that period of time, but it has not, and instead it has been in testing/not launch that whole time. It...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 517: We are EVE Legion
On this week’s episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree and Justin talk about EVE Online’s upcoming expansion, the return of Camelot Unchained, WoW’s next patch, Embers Adrift landing on Steam, and a...
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Perfect Ten: MMOs (and MMO moments) that live in infamy
To a certain degree, MMOs have always existed in a state of infamy. People assume that the game requires hours of sitting and scowling at the screen, watching every element that makes you a human being...
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