Make My MMO: You can finally roll a female character in Star Citizen’s latest...
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 is the patch that introduces playable female characters to the...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained’s new siege scenario isn’t ready for prime-time yet, but...
Camelot Unchained has dropped its weekly update and 53rd newsletter with a recap of what City State Entertainment’s been working on. “This month we continued stress testing our engine with 5k or more...
View ArticleBetawatch: Ashes of Creation shares notes on nodes
The developers behind Ashes of Creation aren’t about to let a little thing like delays prevent them from telling you a bunch of details about how the node system works. That’s pretty commendable. Said...
View ArticleMake 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 just $35,000 to polish up what’s already a rather...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained continues to unleash hundreds of trebuchets in siege testing
The past few weeks in Camelot Unchained have been all about doing extremely violent things to an extremely pretty castle, and this past week was certainly no exception. Siege scenario testing on the 9...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained explains how environmental light and color affects biome...
Camelot Unchained’s newsletter this week is like a lot of the game’s newsletters: It shows iterative but forward progress on both the siege battles and other parts of the game. “We’ve been testing this...
View ArticleMake My MMO: City of Titans’ enemy mob design, Oath’s Kickstarter, and Star...
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 and Heroes and Villains, but also City of Titans. In fact, the...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained was worried the ‘Siege of Cherry Keep’ stress test would...
Camelot Unchained backers over the weekend had the opportunity to kick the crap out of the servers for a planned stress test, and apparently it stressed more than just the servers, to the point that...
View ArticleMake 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 in 2017, the game had pulled in $10M US in crowdfunds, but it’s...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained takes a look at new animations and UI updates as siege...
This week’s Camelot Unchained newsletter is live, and — quelle surprise — the team at City State Entertainment is still hard at work refining the game’s work-in-progress siege scenario that’s taken...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained discusses dev tools, art and animation progress in latest...
Camelot Unchained’s end-of-April newsletter has arrived, and as always it’s stuffed to the brim with plenty of behind-the-scenes info on the game’s development progress. One of the biggest bits of news...
View ArticleMake 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 Roberts’ past marital spats to the testimony of...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained opens doors (or creates them, anyway) and previews new...
Camelot Unchained’s first weekly update for the month is here, and it’s got all the latest news on what the City State Entertainment team has been up to lately. Some new features have entered testing,...
View ArticleMake 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 – it’s for a motorcycle. CIG once again fended off complaints over...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained is hard at work on corpse-chuckers, mortars, and doors
Doors, doors, doors. Yes, “a good amount of work was done to bring doors into” Camelot Unchained this week. That probably sounds silly, but if you’ve ever mucked around with doors in a guts of a video...
View ArticleMake 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 Star Citizen covering what the company did way back in April. It’s a...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained’s ability builder puts the power of choice in your hands
Are you melee, magic, or archery? You’ll have to choose when you step into Camelot Unchained’s world, because these three paths will lead you toward incredible choices and builds. In last week’s dev...
View ArticleMake 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 Tuesday, and as I write this, the game still needs a few thousand...
View ArticleCamelot Unchained chucks cows and batters rams in its latest Top Tenish update
This week, Camelot Unchained’s Top Tenish list puts a particular emphasis on the “ish,” as it’s actually a solid top 20 list of items that the City State Games team has made substantial progress on...
View ArticleMake 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 what they’re really up to, wink wink nudge nudge. But that game has...
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