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Make My MMO: Book of Travels has already doubled its Kickstarter ask
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we’ve got a new addition to the Make My MMO list: Book of Travels, the “tiny multiplayer online” MMO from Might and Delight, a Swedish studio with multiple games to...
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Camelot Unchained reviews its pathfinding code and makes happy accidents with...
Bob Ross, in his infinite wisdom, would sometimes make “happy accidents” while painting where he took a mistaken attempt and made it something new and beautiful. One such happy accident happened for...
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Camelot Unchained isn’t launching this year, delays until at least 2020
(This piece has been updated at the end with stream notes.) Throughout its long (long) development history, Camelot Unchained has been almost mechanical about its weekly updates – on Fridays. Even when...
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Betawatch: Camelot Unchained has delayed again
Did you think that Camelot Unchained was releasing this year? I don’t think anyone still did at this point, but if you were still clinging to that hope… hey, it’s not. Time to let go of hope. Other...
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Camelot Unchained recounts October’s development updates in its monthly...
Camelot Unchained has had a busy month of work as one can gather from the game’s monthly Unveiled newsletter, which takes a look back at efforts put towards the developing MMO as well as shows off a...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 245: BlizzContrite
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard's apology, WoW Shadowlands, Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, Ship of Heroes, Camelot Unchained, and Final Fantasy XIV, with a mailbag question on MMO housing...
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Make My MMO: Destiny’s Sword is launching a Steam demo Monday
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned that Destiny’s Sword is dropping a Steam demo on Monday as a tie-in with Veterans Day and Remembrance Day. The Kickstarted MMO features game play that’s...
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Massively Overthinking: Do MMO betas rob you of launch joy?
I use to think of betas as being unpaid labor for video game companies, but maybe I’ve been going about it all wrong. On Kotaku last month, Mike Fahey argued that betas are effectively helping him to...
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The Division 2 ponders the future of its communication and state-of-the-game...
How much is too much information about a game? That depends on how much the game actually has on offer. Over the years, we’ve seen multiple games downshift their community streams and dev blogs as the...
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Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this...
Going through our coverage of 2019’s MMOs, I realized there are a bunch of games that have previously been on our “anticipated” lists that didn’t do a whole lot of anything this year. What’s going on...
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Camelot Unchained’s knockback will send your heart (and torso) soaring
Just because Camelot Unchained is switching from a weekly to a monthly developer update doesn’t mean that it is skimping on the news. From Skald testing to ragdoll tech to an upcoming backer scenario...
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Make My MMO: The vanishing of Seconds from Silence
Remember this past summer when we covered the emergence of Abstract Era’s new sandbox MMO Seconds from Silence? At the time, we expressed a bit of skepticism as the company kinda sorta seemed to be...
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Fight or Kite: 2010-2019, the decade when PvP boomed and MMOs languished
The end of the decade is upon us. Many are now reflecting on how our lives have changed over the past 10 years. We’ve graduated high school, graduated college, and possibly entered the workforce as...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2020
With 2019 drawing to a close and a new decade of MMORPGs waiting for us just a few days away, the Massively OP writing crew has regrouped for another round of bold and goofy predictions for the year...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2019
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP’s weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. Hey, you folks who are convinced that Kickstarter is the absolute...
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Camelot Unchained to reveal a ‘massive, immersive experience’ this month
What will the new year bring for the long-awaited, long-brewing Camelot Unchained? You might find out sooner rather than later according to the very last post from 2019 that City State Entertainment...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 254: New year mysteries
Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars, the Bless franchise, City of Heroes, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and The Witcher, with mailbag topics on CoH on console, PlanetSide's...
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Chronicles of Elyria is still working on the botched Settlers of Elyria event...
Chronicles of Elyria has returned after winter holidays with a new newsletter for backers. As usual, the newsletter is pretty fluffy (I mean, there’s literally a meme about pigs-in-blankets), but the...
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Make My MMO: Crowfall investment, Demi’s Kickstarter, and Albion’s Queen
We’re back to our regular roundup after the holidays, which means we’ve got quite a bit to talk about – and not all of it made it into our biggest crowdfunding news of the year run-down either. Most...
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Massively Overthinking: The one about MMORPG content roadmaps
You know what word I love to hear from MMORPG developers? Roadmap. If you’re a millennial or older, you surely remember roadtrip life before widespread GPS – sitting in a car trying to navigate twisty...
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