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Vendetta adds persistent player mines, better mobile support

by Jef Reahard (Dec 12th 2013 6:00PM)

Guild Software has been crunching on various Vendetta Online improvements, chief among them some increased background and planetary detail on Android devices. The multi-platform space sim sandbox also boasts support for the latest high-speed mobile ...

Vendetta Online aiming for Steam release

by Jef Reahard (Feb 5th 2013 10:00AM)

Guild Software is seeking to release it's long-running Vendetta Online MMO on Steam, and the space-based sandbox title needs your vote to clear Valve's Greenlight hurdle. Vendetta is one of a very few MMORPGs that natively supports Windows, Mac...

Guild previews Vendetta iPad 2 build in new video

by Jef Reahard (Feb 15th 2013 9:30AM)

Guild Software is hard at work on a full port of its long-running Vendetta Online MMORPG for second-generation iPad devices. Guild founder John Bergman demos a prototype build running on an iPad 2, though he says that there is still "a lot of work...

GDC 2013: Hands-on with Vendetta Online on the iPad

by MJ Guthrie (Apr 3rd 2013 6:30PM)

When we talk about getting our hands on a game at GDC for a little playtime, we don't usually get to literally grasp said game in our fingers. But that's exactly what happened when I tested out Vendetta Online on an iPad 3; instead of just relatin...

Vendetta now available on Windows 8, RT

by Jef Reahard (Oct 10th 2012 9:30AM)

Have you upgraded to Windows 8 yet? Do you use Windows on a tablet? If so, Guild Software wants you to know that its long-running Vendetta Online sci-fi MMO is ready and willing. The indie outfit recently released the game to the Windows store, an...

Vendetta Online pushes its Kickstarter program with new videos

by Eliot Lefebvre (Jan 29th 2013 8:30PM)

Kickstarter isn't just being used by studios trying to get a new MMO off the ground. In the case of Vendetta Online, it's being used to fund something that the game otherwise simply wouldn't have. After nearly a decade of continual operation, the ...

Vendetta Online adds F2P Kickstarter goal

by Jef Reahard (Feb 19th 2013 9:00AM)

Guild Software has added an interesting new wrinkle to its Vendetta Online Kickstarter project. That wrinkle is a possible free-to-play tier which will be available to players of the sci-fi sandbox game should the fundraising drive succeed. Gui...

Vendetta Online now compatible with Oculus Rift

by Jef Reahard (Jul 24th 2013 9:00AM)

Guild Software has announced the debut of Oculus Rift compatibility with Vendetta Online, the company's long-running space-based MMORPG. While genre heavyweights like EVE Online and Star Citizen are experimenting with Rift, Vendetta "marks the first...

Vendetta getting 'major graphical and engine changes,' Steam release

by Jef Reahard (May 9th 2014 9:00AM)

Vendetta Online's latest newsletter has announced major graphical and engine changes, along with Oculus Rift HD support and a forthcoming Steam release. Lead developer John Bergman explains that Guild Software is "working on a whole new client-se...

Vendetta using Kickstarter to fund new expansion, iOS client

by Jef Reahard (Jan 18th 2013 8:30AM)

There's no shortage of sandbox MMO projects on Kickstarter these days, but how would you feel about a fundraiser for a game that's been live since 2002? That's the reality for Vendetta Online, as Guild Software has just announced a new pledge d...

First Impressions: Vendetta Online

by Eloise Pasteur (Dec 2nd 2007 3:01PM)

It is incredibly tempting to describe Vendetta Online (available from here on Windows, Mac and Linux) as an updated version of Elite, or as EVE-Online-lite. Never having played EVE Online (I'm saving up for an Intel Mac so I can have a look), I'm no...