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Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Anticipated MMORPG for 2017 and Beyond
Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Anticipated MMORPG for 2017 and Beyond, which was awarded to Star Citizen last year in an incredibly close...
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The best Massively OP MMO polls of 2016
Every week for the last few years, we’ve expanded on our “Daily Grind” theme with a Leaderboard poll. I’ve had a blast taking over Leaderboard; Daily Grinds always get lovely qualitative answers, but...
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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and wishes for MMORPGs in the new year
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It's way too easy to assume that if someone is...
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Camelot Unchained starts the year with a pair of weekend tests
Camelot Unchained is back to business as usual following the holiday break. Mark Jacobs reports that two tests are being performed this weekend with some of the game's backers, with more tests planned...
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Make My MMO: Refunds for Hero's Song (January 7, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, refunds continue for Hero's Song, which was canceled the day after Christmas with the promise to reimburse all those who backed the game through Indiegogo or on...
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Camelot Unchained glues together beta build elements
"Despite the East Coast winter plague, we’ve continued to make steady progress gluing together several of our core elements for Beta 1," Camelot Unchained's team reports in this week's update...
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Make My MMO: The Repopulation's new owner, Shards Online's alpha (January 14,...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Above & Beyond announced that Hero Engine company Idea Fabrik has acquired all rights to its indie sci-fi sandbox MMORPG The Repopulation and will be...
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Black Desert introduces the family fame system with today's patch
Live in today's Black Desert patch is what Kakao is calling the "family fame" system, which looks like a way to encourage alting and broadened accounts. "All characters stats within your family name...
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A peek at Camelot Unchained's trees, forests, and C.U.B.E.
"Today's update might be a little lighter on the tech side," Mark Jacobs tells Camelot Unchained backers in his latest update, "but we have lots of art to show you as well." Indeed, check out those...
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See how Camelot Unchained's visuals have evolved
There was a neat little post on Reddit yesterday in which a Camelot Unchained fan, DasLPSchaf, created a graphic showing some of the visual improvements to the title over the from 2015 until now. The...
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Betawatch: A city of City of Heroes successors (January 27, 2016)
The loss of City of Heroes brought motivated fans together to rebuild it, or at least to create a spiritual successor to the game. Three of those games showed off some nifty stuff this week. City of...
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Camelot Unchained is putting its new animation system through its paces
One of the key foundations for Camelot Unchained was laid this past week, as the team introduced its brand-new animation system. Mark Jacobs writes in the weekly update that the system is only in its...
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Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous betas Commanders 2.3 next month (January 28, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Frontier announced that the beta for Elite Dangerous' 2.3 update, dubbed Commanders, will release to Horizons beta players on February 26th. "Elite Dangerous: The...
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Camelot Unchained and the critical importance of video game character hands
Camelot Unchained's latest development blog sees the team hard at work on animations, the patcher merge, the terrain editor, bots (the good kind), hair research (!), armor, the dark forest biome, and...
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Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained, Mekria, TUG, and more (February 11, 2017)
This week in MMO crowfunding was... well, it was a big week for gaming in general, and Kickstarted games rose to the challenge! In fact, we could barely pump out the news fast enough. Here's what went...
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The Daily Grind: Do you ever play MMORPGs against 'type'?
Perhaps owing at least in part to the charisma of its chief executive, Camelot Unchained is one of those rare in-production MMORPGs that seems to attract people who would normally flee from it in...
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Camelot Unchained talks about development challenges and beta announcement
There are several notable quotes in this week's progress report from the Camelot Unchained team. Mark Jacobs said that encumberance penalties are being worked into the inventory system and explained...
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Make My MMO: Smed's new studio, Camelot's beta, and Elite's Holo-Me (February...
This week in MMO crowfunding, we did a retrospective on why crowdfunded MMOARPG Hero's Song failed. It's almost as if Justin knew (cue spooky music) because two days later, Hero's Song's John Smedley...
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Camelot Unchained completes first pass on working armor, shields, and weapons
Beta 1 is mentioned 14 times in Camelot Unchained's latest update. I'm not saying it means something, but I'm sure feeling like we're making some headway to it! City State's Mark Jacobs says his team...
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Make My MMO: The Exiled arrives to mixed reviews on Steam (February 25, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, The Exiled was released to the wilds of Steam early access. Formerly called Das Tal, the buy-to-play indie sandbox attempted to raise funds through Kickstarter back in...
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