Make My MMO: July 25, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon returned to Kickstarter. Veteran developer Eric Heimburg clearly believes in his fantasy sandpark, and why not? Gorgon combines the best of old and...
View ArticleGamescom 2015: Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts dismisses Derek Smart
Line of Defense’s Derek Smart has made it quite clear what he thinks about Star Citizen and its creator, Chris Roberts, by calling for Roberts’ resignation and an audit of the crowdfunded title. But...
View ArticleGamescom 2015: Star Citizen gets a monthly report and a big Gamescom...
It’s a big day for fans of Star Citizen, as Cloud Imperium has put out a typically massive monthly report. Oh, and there’s that little multicrew-themed presentation at Gamescom, too. It’s going on...
View ArticleGet a recap of Star Citizen’s development journey to date
Star Citizen’s development is already the stuff of legends and bardic tales, and it isn’t even close to being completed yet. If your memory of the major milestones in the game’s journey is a little...
View ArticleStar Citizen threatened with class-action lawsuit
Internet Warlord Derek Smart is at it again: This morning, the dev behind Alganon and Line of Defense ramped up his crusade against Star Citizen and Chris Roberts with a demand letter from his...
View ArticleNot So Massively: Path of Exile’s crafting scandal; Sins of a Dark Age’s sunset
This week in Not So Massively games, League of Legends players revealed a reproducible exploit that causes skillshot projectiles to become invisible and may have been in the game for several years....
View ArticleLeaderboard: Which MMO devs would you like to see in an epic rap battle?
Sometimes the MMO industry is so absurd that all we can do is laugh at it. OK, not sometimes, most of the time, and especially when the names Chris Roberts and Derek Smart appear in the same news...
View ArticleStar Citizen’s Chris Roberts on dedication, delays, and Derek Smart
In a new and very lengthy interview with Polygon, Chris Roberts fields a wide range of questions about the development and delays of Star Citizen. He points out to fans that he’s been working on the...
View ArticleRSI’s attorney responds to Smart’s Star Citizen demands
The strange saga of Derek Smart’s quixotic campaign against Star Citizen continues. The game developer sicced his lawyer on RSI last month, delivering a series of legal demands that include a public...
View ArticleStick and Rudder: Star Citizen is starting to come together
Last Tuesday I woke in the wee hours of the morning to install Star Citizen’s 1.2 patch. I wasn’t battling insomnia or anything like that; on the contrary, I set my alarm and made sure to start the...
View ArticleStar Citizen is safe from the FTC so far, letter to backer suggests
If you were worried that a certain Internet Warlord’s crusade against Star Citizen might make it to the feds, you can breathe a little easier today. A prominent Star Citizen backer and Massively OP...
View ArticleStar Citizen’s main theme is pretty great
What will Star Citizen sound like? Underneath all the pew pews and the rumbling rocket engines, there’s a score composed by Pedro Camacho that fans are no doubt hoping will match the scope of the game...
View ArticleThe MOP Up: How long would you last in your MMO? (October 4, 2015)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a...
View ArticleNot So Massively: Cloud Imperium threatens a lawsuit (October 5, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So...
View ArticleThe Daily Grind: Are you going to play Squadron 42?
A whole bunch of Star Citizen-related stuff happened this past weekend, and I’ve got a lot of catching up to do since I missed it on account of my vacation. One thing I did notice was the A-list cast...
View ArticleNot So Massively: Star Citizen’s map is amazing (October 12, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So...
View ArticleStick and Rudder: The best bits of Star CitizenCon 2015
Wow, so, where to start with this week’s Stick and Rudder? I guess I picked the wrong time for a vacation, and shame on me for forgetting the CitizenCon date! In any case, Star Citizen acquitted...
View ArticleStar Citizen tops one million accounts, rewards its community
There’s no doubt that Star Citizen has a legion of followers, as RSI announced that it has reached its one millionth account (or “citizen”). “If there was ever a milestone that deserved a letter to...
View ArticleAscent’s lead dev offers insight on the Star Citizen controversy
Last week, the Massively OP podcast hosted guest James Hicks, the developer behind impressive indie space sandbox MMO Ascent: The Space Game. You won’t be surprised to learn that the kind of insane...
View ArticleIs Star Citizen’s big 2.0 update coming this week?
Star Citizen is hosting an anniversary livestream on Thursday, November 19th, and it may even coincide with the long awaited release of the 2.0 update. In last night’s 10 for the Chairman video...
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