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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PAX East 2018: Catching up on Legends of Aria’s improvements since the last PAX

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When I saw Legends of Aria last year, right after it had dropped the Shards Online name and expanded to be a full-fledged MMORPG,...
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Worlds Adrift heads into early access next month

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Ready to take to the skies? All aboard Worlds Adrift's custom-made airships, then, because Bossa Studios is bringing its "community-crafted" MMORPG to Steam early...

World Adrift posts its public roadmap, improves climbing so it doesn’t kill you

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The veil of secrecy has been lifted from Worlds Adrift, and now every Tom, Dick, and Jane will be able to know what the...

Bless Online shakes up and builds out its combat system

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With its early access debut coming next month, Bless Online has a lot riding on how well it can present itself to a western...
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Having given up on LawBreakers, Boss Key is launching battle royale game Radical Heights tomorrow

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Last week, we wrote about the de facto maintenance-moding of LawBreakers, as Boss Key admitted the game wasn't making money, not even enough to...

PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever

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At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...
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PAX East 2018: Blizzard offers more details on World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth encounters and raids

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So if we'll no longer have tier sets in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, what motivation will you have for continuing to raid...

Wild West Online calculates how horses react to being shot multiple times

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How do you tame the wild west? One patch at a time, my friends. The developers behind Wild West Online continue to adjust the western...

The MOP Up: Paladins’ newest hero will punch your head off (April 8, 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...

The Day Online streamlines the MOBA format

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Believe it or not, there are studios out there still trying to break into the heavily cornered MOBA market. For Korea's Reloaded Studios, the...

Crossout’s battle station wagons jump on the battle royale bandwagon

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Here at the esteemed Massively OP offices, where every day is a silver-lined dream aboard a gold-lined yacht, we have established a policy of...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained marches on; Albion players murder half a million bunnies (April 7, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained continues inching along toward its planned summer beta. According to the game's latest update, CSE is running internal...

PAX East 2018: State of Decay 2 debuts a gory gameplay trailer

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Before we had zombies to beat up without remorse in games, what did we used to kill? White dots and angry little mushrooms, mostly....

The Stream Team: Let’s talk Conan Exiles’ launch build!

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Word is now out that Massively OP's MJ got to play around in Conan Exile's new biome and experience many other new features of...

Betawatch: Defiance’s beta, TERA’s console launch, and Eliot’s in the brig (April 6, 2018)

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Welcome back to another look at all the MMO beta happenings of the week! I've stashed Eliot in the brig so that I can take...
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Crowfall’s 5.5 pre-alpha is live with female centaurs, player vendors, and a new map

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Crowfall is ready to push its pre-alpha testing phase to the limit. A new dev video from ArtCraft this week shows off some of...

PAX East 2018: Ashes of Creation will launch alpha one this year

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Ashes of Creation will hit alpha one by the end of the year, Intrepid Studios announced today during its panel at PAX East. The...

Star Citizen homes in on the mobiGlas, checks in with the UK team, and rolls back alpha 3.1.1

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The Star Citizen team is still riding high on the launch of alpha 3.1 last weekend. The latest episode of Around the Verse checks...

Hands-on with Conan Exiles’ launch build: Farming, frolicking in the swamp, and other feature fun

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The early access days of Conan Exiles are coming to a close. In less than a month, the survival sandbox will launch. At that time...

The Black Death overhauls building, introduces guild systems, and wipes all the things

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The Black Death is taking no prisoners with its latest patch, V.026. Also called Dominion, the huge content update makes some rather sweeping changes...

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