Alphas & Betas

MMOs in various stages of testing and crowdfunding, playable and… not. Don’t forget to follow our Betawatch and Make My MMO columns for a weekly rundown. [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Legends of Aria plays around with permadeath during today’s event

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You might recall that one of the original tenants of Shards Online -- now Legends of Aria -- was the ability for players to...

New World teases us with video clips about nothing

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Now that the cat is out of the bag and Amazon is promoting New World, there's been a renewed interest in the community with...

Worlds Adrift gets ready for a big content update — and a big wipe

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Get ready to have your world(s) turned upside-down come September because that's when Worlds Adrift is going to push out a major content patch...

Project Genesis is a hybrid MMO shooter with a persistent world and blockchain currency

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So here's a new acronym for ya: DSSGLAPVU, a "deep space survival game leveraging a persistent virtual universe." It's gotta hurt coming up with...
Oh, sure why not.

Gloria Victis trims up performance issues while planning for siege weapons and workshops

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Performance is both an important part of any online game and also kind of boring to play around with. So it is a very...

Dark and Light’s free DLC, Shard of Faith, is still slated for this summer

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It's been a hot minute since we checked in with Dark and Light, the Snail Games MMO that's still technically in early access. It...

Camelot Unchained’s racial home islands have come a looooooong way

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Camelot Unchained's in beta one now, and as we've previously noted, on the inside it's not much different. On the outside it's not much...

Ashes of Creation confirms subscription model, allays fears over IP blocking and region locking

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More overseas publishing information has trickled out of Ashes of Creation this weekend thanks to players funneling info from Discord to the forums. Readers will...

MapleStory 2 will include its own player-created mission system

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MapleStory 2's sandbox elements are going to go far beyond housing and throwing a killer disco party with your three hundred best friends. Nexon...

The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World soars past 10 million copies (August 26, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Make My MMO: Dual Universe’s EVE Online inspiration, Ashes of Creation’s publisher, and Star Citizen’s free-fly (August 25, 2018)

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Dual Universe was among the handful of in-development MMORPGs that brought the goods to Gamescom; in one of several...

Gamescom 2018: Torchlight Frontiers’ demo sparks interested queries

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The team at Echtra Games certainly has its hands full with showing off Torchlight Frontiers at Gamescom and fielding countless questions from fans and...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation pushes forward with publisher talk (August 24, 2018)

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It's good to see that after the somewhat oddly-named "alpha zero" test phase, Ashes of Creation is planning to move on to alpha one...

Daybreak is sunsetting Just Survive in October, and it never even really launched

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I'm sorry to report some Daybreak news tonight that sadly won't come as a shock to most gamers: The studio is sunsetting Just Survive. "After...
Remember when this was what we were taking about?

Anthem’s beta is admittedly a demo, according to BioWare

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The use of the term "beta" has morphed a lot over the years, moving from its original definition as a test phase to being...
Everyone comes to our house.

Legends of Aria tests realm capacity with a large-scale invasion event on Saturday

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How many players can a single realm of Legends of Aria support? There are lots of ways to find out, but there's only one...

City of Titans teases its City of Heroes-inspired aura system

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It's feeling like superhero week here - Champions Online turning nine, Valiance Online revving up, and now we've got a sneak peek of City...

Star Citizen rolls out the Mercury Star Runner concept ship during Gamescom

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Happy Friday. Star Citizen has a new concept ship. The Mercury Star Runner has an adorable name, a snowspeeder profile, and a fat pricetag: $200...

Valiance Online starts churning out costumes, promises a bunch of new patches soon

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Why be a superhero if you can't look the part? That's half the fun, although nobody really explains in movies and comic books where...

More on Bless Unleashed for Xbox One: Release date, key differences, and impact on Bless Online PC

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Earlier today, we covered the announcement of Bless Unleashed, a collaboration between Neowiz and Bandai Namco that will see a version of Bless on...

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