Our latest coverage of worlds adrift.
When Worlds Adrift first started closed beta testing in May, it was only available in selected regions. Today, Bossa Studios has announced that the ship-building sandbox MMORPG is now available in all locations worldwide. There are, however, a number of limitations: - Servers are still EU and USA based only, so you may experience latency issues depending on your distance [...]
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All alliterations aside (that one wasn't intentional, I swear), Worlds Adrift is planning to release Update 0.1.4 next week. Focusing heavily on ship building, the dev team plans to make it easier to access parts necessary to create the aircraft of your dreams. Similarly, ships setting sail soon shall not have to worry about grappling hooks - an ability to add temporary [...]
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Worlds Adrift seems to be blowing away the competition, with players racking up an average of 900 minutes in its first two weeks of closed beta testing. That’s 15 hours of game time just in case you were wondering. These impressive numbers forced Bossa Studios to implement regional servers ahead of schedule in order to gather more data while the [...]
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Bossa Studios hasn’t been shy in promoting their upcoming sandbox MMO, Worlds Adrift. Last week, the London-based studio released a fan-made trailer on YouTube, giving fans a glimpse of the plethora of unique player-made islands in the game, and showing off exactly what the game is all about. The sandbox MMO is currently in closed beta testing exclusively for players [...]
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It isn't every day a company uses a fan-made trailer, so for Worlds Adrift to use a trailer made by one of their players, Synovus, it certainly has to be a spectacular piece of work. And it is. Worlds Adrift's developers are calling it "some of the most impressive islands created by the community." Worlds Adrift offers a free tool known as [...]
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Character customization is an important part of any MMORPG, especially newer ones like Worlds Adrift. Bossa Studios has just released a video giving players a brief look at their game’s character customization system. Unfortunately, the options seem to be a bit limited and will probably remain that way when Worlds Adrift is finally released to the general public. The team [...]
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If you grabbed a copy of Worlds Adrift this past week, count yourself lucky. The game's first batch of Closed Beta keys is now sold, meaning that, if you don't already have a copy, you will have to wait until the next batch is available to purchase the game. In a thank you video from Bossa Studios that was published [...]
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Worlds Adrift's limited Closed Beta has begun. There are three Founder's Packs available, ranging in price from $34.99 to $64.99. Each Founder's Pack comes with a "Founder's Profile Icon" and a Capulca Mk.2 Starting Engine, with more expensive packs containing exclusive cosmetics and even a "Twitch Streamer Pack" and a chance to get your name in the game somewhere. Perhaps [...]
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Following a short delay announced late last month, Bossa Studios announced today that the Closed Beta for its long-awaited SpatialOS-powered MMO Worlds Adrift will begin this Wednesday, May 24th. At the beginning of Closed Beta, the game will be made available to "batches of players" at a time, so as to keep the otherwise large influx of players from crashing [...]
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The British software studio Improbable has raised $502 million in funding through a Series B financing round led by SoftBank. The young tech firm's core product is the game engine SpatialOS which promises to make it easier for game studios to scale persistent worlds with cloud-based server distribution. What's striking is how bullish the CEO Herman Narula is on the [...]
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