On Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Mitch Lasky and Eric Goldberg joined forces at GamesBeat Summit 2025 in Los Angeles to present on “How to Navigate the Games New Normal”. They started by explaining that the games industry is now in a transformative era of change. The new normal has changed and is changing rapidly.

David Jagnaux, Forbes magazine's columnist who covers MMOs, covered Playable Worlds' recent accomplishments and described many of the features and gameplay that make Stars Reach a standout and most-anticipated MMO in an article published earlier this week. 🔗 Sci-Fi Sandbox MMO ‘Stars Reach’ Raised Over $750,000 On Kickstarter

We did it! Not only did Stars Reach meet its Kickstarter goal, we soared past it. In a tough time for the games industry, your support proved there’s a real audience for the world we’re building. We can’t thank you enough. Your backing didn’t just fund development. It also helped us secure additional investment. Because of your

Stars Reach will be a free to play game at launch, with a Property Pass that you buy monthly. The Property Pass gives you the ability to own land within the game. As with other F2P games, there will be an MTX Store. We are opposed to pay-to-win and are avoiding it in our business model. The gameplay

We have exciting news to share. Our Kickstarter is officially live, and thanks to your incredible support, we hit our funding goal in just one hour! We are beyond grateful for the overwhelming response. Your support proves how much this project means to you, and we could not have done this without you. LET’S KEEP THE

Justin Olivetti: Stars Reach. How can I not be excited to see Raph Koster and his crew fashion a colorful scifi sandbox that seems to promise the stars and beyond? The comms and early testing give me more faith than usual that this can be done. Brianna Royce: Stars Reach... I’ve been nominating Raph Koster’s in-dev MMO

Welcome back, dear massives and massive. The most anticipated moment of the year is here: the most anticipated MMOs of 2025 and beyond are finally here! In contrast to previous years, this time we've limited ourselves to the eight MMOs we're most eagerly awaiting, excluding titles we don't know about yet and removing all those

"My most Anticipated MMO (Or MMO Adjacent Game) On The Horizon: Stars Reach." "Stars Reach intrigues me. ...hearing the developer excitedly talk about the game his team had been working on for a few years was incredibly infectious. And the game was interesting in its concept as well: a fully simulated sandbox galaxy where you

"It should be a pretty decent year for MMO fans!" "This could truly be one of the most impressive sandboxes we've ever seen and the possibilities are endless for players. While I don't expect Stars Reach to fully release in 2025, I expect it will be open enough that if you really want to play

On MassivelyOP, Eliot Lefebvre reflects on a tough year, highlighting moments of unexpected joy in the MMO world. Among the biggest surprises is Stars Reach, which Eliot describes as the industry's ultimate "hey, we’re entering new territory" signpost. With its bold ideas and innovative design, the game stands out as a beacon of what’s possible