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Ashes of Creation meets Underrealm stretch goal, eyes $2M in crowdfunding
With well over two weeks to go in its Kickstarter campaign, Ashes of Creation has already outpaced similar efforts from Chronicles of Elyria ($1.36M raised) and Crowfall ($1.76M). In fact, with over...
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Camelot Unchained completes ‘first 30 days of beta 1’ doc
With the Seattle base a go, Camelot Unchained is pushing forward. City State’s Tyler Rockwell says the team has been hard at work on terrain optimization, zone transitions, portals, particle...
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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 decidedly hardcore and may not have as much...
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Ashes of Creation’s very good, totally tubular, quite excellent day
For Ashes of Creation, May 16th will go down as one of its best days. For starters, the title was featured on Kickstarter’s front page as the project of the day. This honor probably helped to push the...
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Camelot Unchained finishes UI icons, makes ‘major inroads’ into living world...
Camelot Unchained hopes you’re not tired of the words “living world” because its devs are busy making “major inroads into the tech to support” just that. “At the start of the month, we began working...
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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 concept ship. As Relay points out,...
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The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There are certainly more multi-user dungeons (MUDs) than I’ve ever been able to...
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Camelot Unchained implements torches (bring your own pitchforks)
City State’s Mark Jacobs is back at the helm of the Camelot Unchained weekly update this round, with news of his team’s efforts on terrain, performance improvements, seamless zone transitions, the API...
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Make My MMO: Legends of Aria’s alpha, Ashes of Creation’s lofty ambitions...
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Legends of Aria — which we’ll probably never stop accidentally calling Shards Online — began its alpha, introducing testers and founder pack players to the revitalized...
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Camelot Unchained updates progress on crafting, combat, and character creation
Camelot Unchained’s latest monthly newsletter has arrived, and the highlight — aside from the fact that City State hired Andrew Jackson to work on the game — is Ben Pielstick’s design dev blog. “I’ve...
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Camelot Unchained’s backer-modders are tricking out its test interface
“No one said making an MMO was simple,” City State Entertainment’s Tyler Rockwell quips in this weekend’s Camelot Unchained newsletter. He writes that the team continues its work on siege firing and...
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Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, Shroud of the Avatar’s equity...
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter came to a close with $3.2M and nearly 20,000 backers, making it the biggest MMORPG Kickstarter to date. Backers — and would-be backers...
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Camelot Unchained is chasing ‘a game to be proud of, not a minimum viable...
Is beta one here yet? Nooooope. But Camelot Unchained continues barreling down the track toward it, as outlined in its latest weekly update. City State’s Tyler Rockwell explains that the devs are…...
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Make My MMO: Broke Protocol launches early access after failed Kickstarter...
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Minecraft-meets-GTAO MMO Broke Protocol’s Kickstarter ended unsuccessfully on Thursday, but the good news is that the game launched its early access program anyway. The...
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Camelot Unchained creates inventory screen mockup
As Camelot Unchained transforms from a ramshackle collection of ideas and features into a cohesive product, it’s neat to see glimpses of the game that it’s to become. Even something as seemingly...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG developer would you most like to meet in person?
Be you press or player, one of the advantages of going in person to a convention (or any other gaming event!) is surely the chance to actually meet and talk to individual developers. You can get a...
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Pitching a tent in Camelot Unchained
City State’s Tyler Rockwell has returned again this week to helm another Camelot Unchained update, and my favorite part is the tents. Seriously, how many MMORPGs have tents at all? Let alone a dozen...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen sells 14K concept ships in 24 hours (June 24, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen followers once again proved their game’s dominance by purchasing 14,000 of its new Nox concept ships in less than 24 hours, bringing the game’s UEE Fleet up...
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Camelot Unchained: Explosions, music, and death to getting one-shotted
Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs helms this week’s studio update, with a peek into the team’s progress on shadows, archery and combat animations, siege engines, CUBE structures, inventory functionality...
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Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous journeys to PS4, we interview Kickstarted MMO...
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Frontier launched Elite Dangerous for the PS4, complete with relevant adjustments for touchpad controls and a “fast headlook” mode for wireless controllers. Meanwhile,...
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