Camelot Unchained is in its alpha testing.
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Mark Jacobs’ Camelot Unchained crowdfunded game hits alpha testing

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Camelot Unchained, the new effort from online game creator Mark Jacobs and his City State Entertainment startup, has entered its alpha testing.

Jacobs is the former head of Mythic Entertainment, which published the massively multiplayer online game Dark Age of Camelot in 2001. Electronic Arts bought Mythic Entertainment in 2006, but Jacobs left in 2009 and EA eventually shut down all of Mythic’s games. Camelot Unchained is a spiritual successor to Dark Age of Camelot, and it has raised more than $3.2 million via crowdfunding and Jacobs’ own investment.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.