Our latest coverage of Kingdoms of Elyria.
As if Chronicles of Elyria’s development hasn’t been controversial enough, Soulbound Studios has decided to once again postpone the release of the long-delayed MMORPG and its city management sim Kingdoms of Elyria. Studio founder Jeromy Walsh cites Baldur’s Gate 3 as the inspiration for the delay, saying that he doesn’t want to rush the launch and wants to polish the [...]
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The legal drama surrounding Soulbound Studios and its supposedly still-in-development game Chronicles of Elyria has come to an abrupt and unexpected end. The class-action lawsuit against the studio and its CEO Jeromy Walsh by backers looking to recover their pledges has just been dismissed by the Washington Western District Court. “The dismissal of the lawsuit marks the end of an [...]
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Soulbound Studios is back with news on their controversial and still-in-development fantasy MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria and the now-standalone game Kingdoms of Elyria. In his Q1 2022 state-of-the-game update, CEO Jeromy Walsh outlines work that’s been done on the game over the past few months which included a two-day Early Alpha test. “Since February, we've been quietly working on the [...]
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The class-action suit against Chronicles of Elyria developer Soulbound Studios and third-party payment processing company Xsolla has been split into two lawsuits after the presiding judge approved Xsolla’s motion for non-class arbitration in California under the company’s original terms of service. Meanwhile, the now separate lawsuit against Soulbound Studios, whose headquarters is in Bellevue, Washington, has been transferred to the [...]
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Soulbound Studios is back with more theoretical information on how stuff will work in Chronicles of Elyria and its city management strategy spin-off Kingdoms of Elyria. Today, we’re diving into the importance of indigenous fauna, the role they’ll play in both games, and how they will be different from mindless mobs in other MMOs. “Many games have simple AI routines [...]
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Soulbound Studios CEO Jeromy Walsh dives deep into how resource gathering, goods production, and the economy will work in Chronicles of Elyria and Kingdoms of Elyria. He also explains how they plan to diverge from the “one-man economy” systems found in typical MMOs. “Economic roles or professions in Chronicles of Elyria have long been divided up into four archetypes: Explorers, [...]
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