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Make My MMO: Titan Reach and Ilysia head to Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Titan Reach kicked off its Kickstarter, seeking $428,000 US to fund a modern take on an “old-school” MMO set in a skill-centric, massive fantasy world. It’s actually...
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Camelot Unchained’s latest news dispatches cover Dragon’s Web, giants, and art
Camelot Unchained’s City State Entertainment dropped three chunks of content from the developers last night, a bit unusually since it was a Wednesday and not a Friday. The game’s weekly update...
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Make My MMO: Wagadu and Ilysia breeze past Kickstarter goals
It’s been a positively packed couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs new and old. A few of the highlights: Afrofantasy MMO The Wagadu Chronicles entered our lists; it’s already fully funded and pushing...
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Camelot Unchained offers looks at new UI, the Dreadcaller class, and more...
Camelot Unchained has offered up another round of check-ins for the playerbase to cap off the weekend playtest. We start with the most recent weekly update, which offers a whole lot of visuals,...
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Make My MMO: Welcome to Kasa, Book of Travels’ central city
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Book of Travels popped back on our radar with a preview of its capital city, Kasa, which will serve as the game’s hub and shopping center and harbor. “With its deep...
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Camelot Unchained talks up development of new Verdant Forest biome and RvR map
The month of November saw the devs of Camelot Unchained improving the game’s landmass quite a bit. In the latest newsletter, we get a look at the creation of the new and improved Verdant Forest biome...
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Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2020 predictions
Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don’t think anyone had “biggest global pandemic in a century disrupts everything and makes gaming really weird.” So...
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Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous lifer? You’re getting Odyssey’s deluxe edition...
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite Dangerous managed to outshine Star Citizen’s $600 ship by opening preorders for next year’s Odyssey expansion and setting the announcement trailer to Space Oddity....
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Industry Blunder of 2020, which was awarded to Blizzard last year thanks to the multi-month Blitzchung...
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Biggest MMO Disappointment of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Disappointment of 2020, which was awarded jointly to the cancellation of Peria Chronicles and the decline of...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2021
So… 2020 didn’t go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and the whole games industry going way off course. And we don’t have...
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City State Entertainment’s Final Stand: Ragnarok heralds the arrival of...
It’s been some time since we had heard much about Final Stand: Ragnarok, the second game coming from Camelot Unchained developer City State Entertainment; the last we had heard, they were taking on...
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO with the Stormiest Future
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for the MMO (or Studio) with the Stormiest Future, which was awarded to Daybreak last year. Years ago, we called this award...
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Camelot Unchained demonstrates its Terminator-like enemy AI in new video footage
Non-player character pathfinding is one of those systems that you don’t ever notice or think about — at least, until it doesn’t work and NPCs get caught up on the environment and end up hopelessly lost...
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Anticipated MMO
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Most Anticipated MMO, which was awarded to Book of Travels and Torchlight Frontiers last year. (Obviously, Frontiers lost...
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End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2021
All right, let’s do this one more time. Yes, it’s that time when we look ahead to the next year and ask which games look like they’re going to be facing some interesting contrasting pressures from a...
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Camelot Unchained wraps up 2020 with hope and cheer
Before you completely write off 2020, Camelot Unchained would like to have a word with you. Wait, whom are we kidding? This is Camelot Unchained — it would like to have many, many words with you! In...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2020
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP’s weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. If you’re on of those goes who is always down in the comments...
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Perfect Ten: The top MMOs to watch in 2021
“MMOs are dead!” “MMOs are dying!” “We didn’t get any good MMO releases this past year!” While I won’t argue with the last one there, I humbly submit today’s column as an exhibit for the immediate...
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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2021
Welcome to 2021, folks. It’s not even going to have to try all that hard to be better than 2020! For our first official Massively Overthinking of the year, I’ve polled the Massively OP staff on all of...
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