Stars Reach
Stars Reach news
This new video game’s dirt sounds amazing
With some $45 million in funding and a desire to shake up the MMO scene, Stars Reach's developers are trying some exciting things.
"You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach
Raph Koster's career spans the evolution of the modern MMO. Creative lead on MUDs, Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and EverQuest 2, the systems and mechanics his teams developed live on in every active MMO today and many games besides. "People made fun of me for having dancing in Galaxies," Koster tells me. "Fortnite ought to give me royalties." But the promise of his new game, Stars Reach is a scale bigger than everything he's made before. A sci-fi MMO set in a procedurally generated univers
Stars Reach could be the second coming of the sandbox MMO, with player-built cities and 40+ Star Wars Galaxies-style professions to give me hope
"Players have practically invented Steam Power."
Important lessons from running a successful video game crowdfunding campaign
Playable Worlds, Inc's Niina Fujioka shares her experiences running a successful crowdfunding campaign for Stars Reach.