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]

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Destiny 2 deploys Solstice of Heroes: Moments of Triumph update

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Good times just might be here if Destiny 2 has anything to say about it. Today, the sci-fi shooter deployed Update 1.2.3 and the...

Dauntless counts 2M players since open beta, announces city-reshaping ‘Coming Storm’ expansion

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Well now, here comes Dauntless with some nice big numbers to boast about from its open beta: Phoenix Labs has apparently counted 2 million...

Fractured pivots from global to regional servers as it pushes toward its Kickstarter goal

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Quite often, you hear MMO gamers lament that their communities are artificially separated into different servers, with all of the problems that that entails....
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Fractured is hosting a livestream on crafting and building today

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Want to know more about crafting and building in Fractured as the game has passed its 75% funding mark? Good news, you'll have a...

Colony simulation MMO Seed blasts you into space in its brand-new pre-alpha teaser

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We've been keeping an eye on Klang Games' MMO Seed since at least last year, when the studio revealed its single-shard simulation mechanics and...

Camelot Unchained nears beta as its crash rate drops to ‘acceptable’ levels

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"From what we've seen so far, we're in really good shape." Mark Jacobs hasn't given us a firm start date for Camelot Unchained's Beta 1...

Star Citizen backer took CIG to small claims court over his refund request – and lost

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The Star Citizen refunds subreddit is often the home of big words and tall tales, but Redditor firefly212 did more than just talk: He...
But we should really not let these guys off the hook for talking big.

Ashes of Creation’s subreddit has been taken over by Intrepid Studios

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Concern and alarm has been raised among the Ashes of Creation community this past week as four members of Intrepid Studios, including CEO Steven...

Make My MMO: Aria’s second closed beta, Star Citizen’s protest, and Crowfall’s engine on the market (July 15, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, we got our first hints of "emergent gameplay" in Star Citizen as a group of players took over a refueling...

Reign of Guilds shows off environments, castles, and magic in latest dev blog

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The latest dev blog for Russian indie dev Atlant Games's upcoming Reign of Guilds has a veritable smorgasbord of detailed information about various facets...

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s DS9 expansion gets a console release date (July 14, 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...

Multiplayer survival sandbox Outpost Zero hits Steam early access

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The super pretty survivalbox Outpost Zero has planted roots in Steam's early access program. It's currently $15.99; tinyBuild and Symmetric Games say it's a...
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Betawatch: Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen kicks off character creation (July 13, 2018)

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It's important in an MMO to feel like you own the bundle of stats and spells that you lovingly refer to as a character....

Bless Online outlines next week’s Migra Turis update, plus balance and combat changes to come

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It's Friday, and that means the requisite Bless Online producer's letter. Fans of the game who've stuck with it through the rocky start will...

Arr! Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas has fully launched on Steam

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Arrrr! If Sea of Thieves isn't doing it for you, maybe you should board a more classic ship, like Puzzle Pirates - specifically, Puzzle...

Blossom and Decay offers emergent narrative in an anything-goes sandbox

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In the market for a full-loot, retro-themed MMO sandbox? Your specific tastes may be satiated by Blossom and Decay, an up-and-coming MMOARPG that will...

Fractured releases development roadmap as Kickstarter campaign enters final weeks

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Dynamight Studios has released a development roadmap for its would-be crowdfunded MMO Fractured, which is currently sitting at $66,907 US of its goal of...

PWE announces co-op survival shooter Remnant: From the Ashes

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Perfect World has a new game up its sleeve: It's called Remnant: From the Ashes, and it's being built by Gunfire Games. It's not...

Disgruntled Star Citizen players blockade a space station in protest over Arena Commander

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Cloud Imperium has dropped a couple of new tidbits for Star Citizen fans to dig into this week with a new lore post and the...
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Crowfall explains its new Vivox chat integration

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The chat system in Crowfall was developed in-house for chatting within the game, and it had only one problem insofar as it didn't actually...

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