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Camelot Unchained demos ballistae, introduces backer-inspired lore
The crunch toward beta 1 continues for the Camelot Unchained staff this weekend. Last night CSE boss Mark Jacobs told followers that the team is working on lighting and rendering system bugs, the new...
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Make My MMO: Crowfall’s Siege Perilous is underway (April 2, 2016)
Just a year after Crowfall’s Kickstarter was successfully funded, ArtCraft this week kicked off Siege Perilous, a targeted test of part of the castle siege system (read: woot, catapults). That puts...
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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained’s 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs that don’t merely stop with a half-dozen or so classes...
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Camelot Unchained makes ‘slow and steady progress’ toward beta
The pieces are falling into place for Camelot Unchained’s first beta, although it’s not quite here yet. Mark Jacobs jumped onto the stage on Friday to share some of the “slow and steady progress”...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s studio report (April 9, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen published a massive studio report, complete with a brand-new video on EVA transitions for first-person combat. Meanwhile, Sacrament posted about its...
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Exploring Camelot Unchained’s siegecraft system
How will sieges work in Camelot Unchained? Massively OP reader and YouTuber CloakingDonkey dug into the last official livestream to pull out the good stuff, including the facts that individual realms...
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Camelot Unchained shows off concept art and animation work
Camelot Unchained Producer Tyler Rockwell helms the latest newsletter for the Kickstarted game thanks to a plague that struck the heart of CSE and delayed the week’s Q&A stream. Rockwell’s taken...
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Make My MMO: Ascent’s launch, Elite’s Engineers, and Star Citizen’s new...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, space games have dominated the headlines. Indie Kickstarted sandbox Ascent: The Space Game formally launched out of early access into the wilds of fully live games,...
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CSE’s Mark Jacobs explains Camelot Unchained’s beta delay
On its livestream this afternoon, Camelot Unchained boss Mark Jacobs told backers and watchers that technical issues have delayed the start of beta, which was anticipated literally any day now and has...
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Betawatch: WoW Legion is launching in August (April 22, 2016)
This week, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft’s sixth expansion, Legion, will indeed arrive this summer as planned. August 30th is the big day. Got your preorder in yet? Here’s what else is new...
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Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s beta delay (April 23, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained’s devs revealed that they will not make their planned target for beta. The beta phase has been postponed while the game’s ability code is...
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Massively Overthinking: Trinities and quaternities in MMORPGs
This week’s Massively Overthinking topic was inspired from Jake, who wrote in to us wondering about roles in MMORPG classes and group content: “What happened to roles? We used to have more then just...
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Camelot Unchained’s monthly newsletter covers the beta delay and end of crunch
Camelot Unchained’s monthly newsletter has dropped, and believe it or not it’s on the briefer end of newsletters for CSE with “only” 8000-odd words. CSE Senior Editor Max Porter reiterates the team’s...
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Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria might be the biggest MMO Kickstarter we’ll...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, the story-driven MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria stormed Kickstarter Keep and is still going strong. It raised a third of its goal in its first day; as I write this, it...
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Camelot Unchained: CUBE updates and weapon concepts
Still on the edge of your seat waiting for the Camelot Unchained beta? Well sit back and get a comfy pillow for your butt because it’s not today, but it has been a good week for the team’s progress...
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Make My MMO: Elyria funds, Crowfall delays (May 14, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria reached the minimum goal of its Kickstarter — $900,000 — with over 7,000 donors and just about three weeks left to go on stretch goals, which...
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The Daily Grind: Is MMO ‘open’ development really good for the genre?
Massively OP’s Andrew Ross and I were recently discussing how to approach an opinion piece on Chronicles of Elyria when he reminded me that the game’s forumgoers won’t take any criticism of the...
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Camelot Unchained shows off weapon concepts and the growing world
One of the big elements of Camelot Unchained‘s design philosophy is the difference between its three factions. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense if everyone looked the same, would it? So the start of...
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Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria raises a million bucks (May 21, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, there’s a new player in the crowdfunding business: Fig, a “community-powered publisher” whose “goal is to strike a balance between titles from well-known...
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Get the rundown on what we know of Camelot Unchained’s classes
Quickly, how much do you know about Camelot Unchained‘s classes? Do you know all of them? Do you know how they work? Would you be able to do anything other than stare for a moment before finally...
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