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]

Worlds Adrift’s latest update adds Alliances, tunes netcode, and fixes bugs

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Worlds Adrift has had quite the week, releasing a new update as well as the latest dev podcast. The latest update, Update 26, added...

The Black Death update adds Kings and Queens, squashes bugs

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Grim medieval survival sandbox The Black Death has released a new update that brings with it a number of bug fixes as well as...

Gamevil is launching autobattle mobile MMO Talion this week

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Here's one we almost forgot about: Talion. We covered it last spring when Gamevil first announced its closed beta, which apparently ran all summer....

Zombie MMO Dead Frontier 2 is in early access to scratch the H1Z1 Just Survive itch

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I'm not quite sure how we missed Dead Frontier 2, but there it is on Steam, happily calling itself an MMO and an MMORPG...

Ship of Heroes works on its diurnal cycle, builds out missions, and deals with poaching

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Yesterday, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever posted up the September to October milestones for Ship of Heroes, providing a bit of a roadmap for the...
Planted.

Seed discusses the natural biases of worldbuilding and interaction

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Here's a statement that should be rather uncontroversial but might be otherwise: You do not exist in a vacuum. The experiences that have shaped...
It'll be f

Chronicles of Elyria update shows off new art assets, progresses Searing Plague world event

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Soulbound Studios is getting crafty in the latest update for its in-development MMO Chronicles of Elyria, as it displays some of the newly created...

The MOP Up: Champions Online’s month-long anniversary bash (September 9, 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...
All according to keikaku or something

Make My MMO: Crowdfunding for Shroud of the Avatar’s comic and an injured dev (September 8, 2018)

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, it's a minor miracle that anybody is paying any attention to Kickstarted games, what with all the mega...

Camelot Unchained discusses development of destructible deathmatch castle, new art assets

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Development on Camelot Unchained seems to be coming along nicely, and the folks at City State Entertainment have posted a new weekly update detailing...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation furthers its alpha amidst a news bomb (September 7, 2018)

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So, uh, yeah. This week. You notice how the "breaking" box there is overstuffed with stories? That's because this week has just been crazy...

Dual Universe AMA tackles questions about alpha testing, LUA scripting, combat, and more

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Novaquark, developer of upcoming voxel-based spacefaring MMO Dual Universe, has posted an AMA of all the questions asked by fans during Gamescom 2018. The...

Bless Online cracks down on bots, sketches out maintenance compensation plans

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Neowiz is gunning for the bots in Bless Online. In fact, the studio says in its latest Steam update that it's already cracked down...

Star Citizen highlights moonscapes and player housing, plus its monthly studio report

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You know one of my favorite things about Firefly? The bunkrooms. Like seriously, I want a hammock and a pull out toilet/sink. That set...

Ashes of Creation kicks off its alpha 1 stress testing for top backers today

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Stress testing for Ashes of Creation's alpha 1 is beginning today, according to a newsletter sent 'round to followers yesterday. "Alpha One is almost upon...

Here’s how Ship of Heroes is populating its starship city with people and vehicles

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Can I be real for a sec here. Smashing cars was one of the best parts of City of Heroes. Being rewarded for destroying...

Bless Online’s Rift of Space and Time update is live with new endgame content

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If there's an honest to goodness rift in space and time, you should probably not be wasting your precious seconds left in the universe...

Old School RuneScape’s mobile version launches October 30

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Just in time for Halloween, Old School RuneScape will be formally launching for mobile. Jagex announced this morning that OSRS will land on both...

The Cycle plans September closed alpha, offers new gameplay trailer

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We've been following YAGER's upcoming online shooter The Cycle all summer; as we put it in July, it looks like a survival sandbox with...

Hardcore ‘MMOPEG’ sandbox Codename Reality has failed to fund on Kickstarter, vows to continue

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Just about a month ago, we covered a brand-new Kickstarter from a brand-new MMORPG called Codename Reality. Actually, European developer Orode Productions called it...

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