A game in, a game out, another game… simulators. Unleashed Camelotlaunched nearly 10 years ago, announced that it had received an additional $15 million in outside investment this week, the same week as Crowfall’s the new owners took the game offline for purported reviews and players set a schedule for star citizen beleaguered development history.
In the meantime, there is hope for Elite Dangerous, Albion online increased its per-character subtitle, and we got more teases about ZeniMax’s in-development MMO. And of course, the MMO industry is gearing up for the launch of World of Warcraft Dragonflight expansion tomorrow – no matter the dark clouds hanging over the company’s future.
Read on for this week’s best MMO news and opinion today, like every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
THIS WEEK’S BEST STORIES
Camelot Unchained Developer City State Secured Another $15M+ Investment Funding – Money makes the world go round, and coal is certainly what powers the engine of game development. City State Entertainment, the development studio behind the long-awaited and launched MMORPG…
Elite Dangerous confirms November 29 Update 14 as well as ‘live’ and ‘legacy’ versions of the sandbox – There’s some really big news coming out of Elite: Dangerous. When Update 14 arrives, the game will effectively be split into two different modes called Live Mode and…
Crowfall turns dark today with slim hope of a future return – For an MMO that’s about death and reincarnation, there’s either irony or hope that Crowfall is going offline today supposedly to re-equip. Whether the crowdfunded PvP game comes back or not,…
A new fan-made timeline shows the development of Star Citizen alongside the tech industry, From Software and CD Projekt Red – Here’s an overview of how long Star Citizen was in development: When pre-production of the game started, Dark Souls didn’t exist. The entire Dark Souls series,…
ZeniMax’s Unannounced AAA MMO Has Grown to 200 Developers Since 2018 – That Elder Scrolls Online’s Zenimax Online Studios is working on another major game is not new information – we’ve been covering it since 2018 thanks to a long series of…
FTC May Challenge Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Acquisition – Despite what Bobby Kotick tells you on the low, Microsoft’s impending takeover of Activision Blizzard for $67.8 billion may not be on track to happen on schedule after all.…
Sci-fi survival shooter Dysterra launches in early access, has to go back almost immediately due to cheats – Run, shoot, survive and have fun. Ideally, anyway. That’s the hope of Kakao Games’ new sci-fi survival multiplayer shooter Dysterra, which arrived in early access last week…
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen confirms its next pre-alpha test for December 3 – Pre-alpha testing for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is back on the menu, as the latest monthly digest confirms that a 24-hour pre-alpha will begin on Saturday,…
The Game Archaeologist: Wizardry Online, the short-lived permadeath MMO – While the Wizardry series may not have the cultural cache that Ultima or Final Fantasy ended up with, the dungeon-crawling RPG series has nonetheless cultivated a sizable fan base. The…
WoW Factor: What Works and What Doesn’t Work with Dragonflight Primalists (So Far) – The whole intrigue with the Primalists in World of Warcraft could prove to be a very interesting overall lesson… or it could be a rehash of one…
Albion Online continues to increase Mists rewards and prepares the increase in sub-fees per character – Are you ready for even more rewards for doing things in Mists of Albion Online? Then the latest sandbox MMORPG patch is for you, because it brings…
Gamigo has silently removed Aura Kingdom from Steam after months of payment issues – Welp, this can’t be good news for Aura Kingdom. Players are reporting that Aeria Games’ MMORPG has been pulled from Steam at the request of the publisher, and a quick look at…
Destiny 2 players have mined their way through a new event in record time – If you’re only now hearing about a brand new Destiny 2 player event to do this week, then we have to let you know that you’re already too late to…
Massively Overthinking: the best food in MMORPGs – You probably thought that tonight’s Massively Overthinking would have a theme of gratitude, with the holidays and all. No, not this time, although it’s kind of Thanksgivingy. We’ll talk…
Trove’s Reeling in the Stars update has overhauled fishing and added a star map progression system – Bored Trove players are excited for Thanksgiving, as Gamigo took the opportunity to roll out the Reeling in the Stars update on PC. Essentially, the update adds a…
Guild Wars 2 introduces a comfy cat chair and more bag slots for everyone – Guild Wars 2 and its expansions aren’t the only sales going on in the ArenaNet enclave this Thanksgiving week. The cash register now apparently offers a giant plush…
World of Warcraft offers Dragonflight survival guide and dungeon tour – First of all. There are two things one could mean by giving players a World of Warcraft: Dragonflight survival guide. This is not a guide on how to be…
Black Desert adds Atoraxxion party match for PC, announces two different classes for mobile and PC – What’s better than a new class in an MMORPG? Two classes in two different versions, what is it! It’s one of the main titles coming out of Black Desert because both…
Massively On The Go: Pokemon Scarlet And Violet Inches Franchise Closes In On Monster Hunter Multiplayer Status – Let me start by saying that I really enjoy Pokemon Scarlet and Violet for what they are: an open-world Pokemon game with more multiplayer than Sword and Shield, which I also enjoyed. But…
Perfect Ten: 10 things we are grateful for in MMO gaming – In my experience, people who invest heavily in gratitude and appreciation for blessings don’t have much room for negativity and cynicism. They are also much more…
Is Elder Scrolls Online’s next stop in Morrowind, the mainland of the Telvanni? – The Dark Heart of Skyrim celebration being held in Elder Scrolls Online was probably meant to get those sweet rewards for players, but a fan of the game has discovered…
RuneScape and Old School RuneScape return to service after long outage – RuneScape and its Old School sibling RuneScape haven’t had the best week. Yesterday Jagex suffered a major data center outage which kept both games offline all day yesterday…
EverQuest: Night of Shadows arrives December 6 – No matter where you go in the EverQuest universe, there will be a launch this holiday season. A week after the release of Daybreak EverQuest II: Renewal of Ro, the studio…
Steam’s Fall Sale is live until November 29 – here are some MMOs with great deals – Like clockwork, the Steam Fall Sale is back for the gaming world with just-in-time deals for Thanksgiving or Black Friday or Small-Business Saturday or Cyber Monday or Giving…
New World of Warcraft ad reminds you that you have your own dragon partner in Dragonflight like Pedro Pascal – Hollywood celebrities get things that you will never get, unfortunately. The new ad for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight stars Pedro Pascal, Lana Condor, and David Harbour, and they’re all…
Long-awaited Valheim Mistlands update opens to players on the PTS – The long drought of new content coming to Valheim seems to be coming to an end. Nine months after developer Iron Gate first unveiled the Mistlands area, it’s finally here…
Choose My Adventure: Genfanad is ‘nostalgic’ in almost every bad way – I don’t envy any development team that wants to do something “nostalgic”. Making a game that harkens back to predecessors or an era in gaming history is very clearly…
Here’s what to expect from the PvP-filled season eight of the Sea of Thieves faction, launching today – Today is the day Sea of Thieves crews have more reason to turn their cannons on other players’ ships as the faction PvP features of…
CODEX goes from a standalone game to an MMO creation and hosting tool – In August 2021, we discovered CODEX, a game from the original engine that powered Shards Online before moving to Legends of Aria. The developers behind…
Standing Stone Games executive producer says he’s ‘quietly angry’ because he couldn’t save Asheron’s appeal – Some former Asheron’s Call fans might find some comfort in the fact that a former Turbine executive regrets the cult MMO’s closure as much as they do. Standing stone games…
Wisdom of Nym: What is the future of Final Fantasy XIV story arcs? – In August 2013, the relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV took place and did pretty much everything you shouldn’t do with long-form storytelling. It started with a story…
World of Warcraft Lead Narrative Designer Steve Danuser Attempts to Clarify the Waters of Titan Affecting Whelps – As of this writing, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is not yet available to players, but already some of the expansion’s new lore is in the wild in…
Vitae Aeternum: The Storm Clouds on the Horizon of the New World – New World has improved considerably since its launch. I’ve received a lot of praise for the changes Amazon has made and can’t wait to see the game continue to evolve.…
Mortal Online 2 previews its upcoming weather system in a livestream – Bad weather can happen, but it doesn’t happen that much in Mortal Online 2. That’s going to change soon, though, as the game’s latest livestream demonstrated a new…
Albion Online welcomes players to the Mists a day earlier with Beyond the Veil – Surprising players with an early release (apparently to help with server issues), Albion Online’s Beyond the Veil content update went live on Sunday. The drop introduces a new realm called…
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