MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh recently wrote a preview of Empire & State being developed by Novel Inc. In a new update interview with Toby Ragaini and Mike Marr, Carolyn gets the latest news on the development of Empire & State as it nears open beta. Find out what's new with Novel Inc.'s game in MMORPG.com's exclusive review. Leave us a comment or two with your thoughts.

Empire and State is an MMO-RTS, an empire building game with combat on a high level; which is to say, you’ll be sending your resources in to support your nation in battle, but not controlling individual armies on the field of combat. A browser based game, it was fundamentally designed as a free-to-play game and monetizes accordingly. It was also designed with core gamers in mind, with the world and economy conceived akin to an EVE Online style open sandbox. The game is a little more casual than a full downloadable MMO but contains all the trappings, as Toby explained.

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