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Fight or Kite: MMO PvP needs to be memorable or it’s not worth the bother
The best combat-related moments I’ve had in gaming were always surprising feats or wild encounters with other players. They weren’t always victories, but those were the best ones. Running from quest...
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Interview: Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs just announced a new game called...
Camelot Unchained studio City State Entertainment has been teasing something big for a while now. This morning, CSE’s Mark Jacobs told backers to tune in for this afternoon’s stream, as the devs aimed...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s roadmap, Camelot Unchained’s baby Colossus
This week in MMO crowdfunding, the Star Citizen community got busy stewing over the newly released roadmaps for SC and Squadron 42, which show large numbers of features being delayed. This would be a...
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever gotten a refund for an MMORPG?
As I type this, the discussion thread on the Camelot Unchained piece from Friday is nearing 400 comments, a hefty proportion of which center on refunds for the game. During the conversation, it became...
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Star Citizen Live discusses the Theaters of War multiplayer FPS mode
One of the more surprising reveals to come out of last year’s CitizenCon was Theaters of War, a 20v20 mode arriving to Star Citizen that sees players fighting it out in combined arms combat in...
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Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs apologizes for Colossus reveal, promises...
A week ago, Camelot Unchained studio City State Entertainment stunned MMORPG players – and its own Kickstarter backers – with the news that it was working on a second game, a multiplayer co-op title...
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Massively Overthinking: Contemplating Colossus and Camelot Unchained
You had to know we were going to talk about Camelot Unchained in this edition of Massively Overthinking, right? Last week, City State Entertainment announced that it’s started work on a second game, a...
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Here are the highlights from Camelot Unchained’s siege warfare demo and...
Note: We liveblogged the stream; scroll down to the end of the post for the latest. The past week has been a whirlwhind for MMO players and watchers of Kickstarted RvR MMO Camelot Unchained. Last...
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Betawatch: Phantasy Star Online 2 enters closed beta on the Xbox One
To have something so close, and yet so far away… that is the situation for North American fans of Phantasy Star Online 2 on PC this weekend. The game is coming over, it’s finally in beta testing… on...
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Camelot Unchained offers a look at a new RvR testing zone and the item...
Camelot Unchained, ultimately, is an RvR MMO, but a lot of the scenarios that have been tested up to this point have been mainly about focused experiences or mechanics. That looks to be changing soon...
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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 on all platforms. Meanwhile, Ashes of Creation ended...
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Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO...
Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios’ Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on top-level development plans. This week, we’re...
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Daybreak, Cryptic, City State, Frontier, and more MMO studios affected by...
As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make itself felt, we’ve got another quick roundup of news relevant to MMO players. First, we’ve got a whole ‘nother slew of MMO and MMO-adjacent...
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Camelot Unchained’s latest mini-update is all about incoming testing and...
There’s still work being done on Camelot Unchained right now, and it’s the sort of work that requires some devotion. See, one of the major points of focus right now in development is on the Devout...
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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 early access since 2018, seeks over $100,000...
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Camelot Unchained details work on Devout classes, new crafted traps and...
In spite of a work-from-home policy, the folks at Camelot Unchained have been spectacularly busy. In the end of the month update for March, the Top Tenish is now a Top Thirty-Six that is loaded with a...
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Massively Overthinking: What generates trust in MMO crowdfunding for you?
Last week, an anonymous game developer posted on the MMORPG Reddit about the broader MMO playerbase’s frustrations with crowdfunding. See, this dev says he’s been working on an MMO and his studio was...
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Make My MMO: Following Chronicles of Elyria reports, state attorney general...
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Chronicles of Elyria stirred fresh drama this week, as Soulbound Studio appeared to backtrack on its announcement that the studio had folded and work on the game had...
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Camelot Unchained talks about a new island scenario and other updates in a...
Camelot Unchained held a mid-April livestream to share some of its latest progress with backers and fans. Specifically, Mark Jacobs, who broadcast live from his home as the studio members are working...
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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 Husbandry will let players breed Animal-Handling animals (and...
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