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]

Hi-Rez MOBA shooter Paladins heralds a May 8 launch date – check out the brand-new trailer

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The time has come. After beta testing across multiple platforms in front of 20 million players and establishing itself as the most-played new game...
Come hell or high elf.

Crowfall previews the armor of the High Elves

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The next alpha version of Crowfall will allow players to try out the High Elf race, which means that it would be a bit...

Massively OP Interview: Dual Universe demo shows off advances in city building, space travel

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When you work in video games, you often get asked what new titles you are looking forward to. While experience has been teaching me...

Conan Exiles teases next week’s launch with three amusing live-action Conan trailers

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Conan Exiles is officially launching next week on May 8th, but in the meantime, it's putting out all the videos. All of them. "Thought experiment:...

State of Decay 2 rejects the battle royale genre for being already mined out

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Sick of battle royale? Yeah, it hit saturation levels in a hurry. Undead Labs is over the craze too, which might sound funny given...
Remember, you were the ones who couldn't wait for this game.

Bless Online previews the Guardian and Paladin classes with fresh videos

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Neowiz is following up its Bless Online class previews from last week with another round of videos, this time focusing on the different combat...

Stardew Valley’s multiplayer edition is finally in beta testing

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With word that Stardew Valley's multiplayer update is almost upon us, we only have one question: Which of you peasants will toil the rich...

Missing 14-year-old City of Heroes? The SEGS emulator is looking for coders

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Are you missing City of Heroes this week, what with the 14th anniversary of its launch and all? We are too. Earlier this month,...
Heritage.

World of Warcraft previews two expansion races, nixes Strand of the Ancients battleground

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Feeling a little primal and savage? You'll be able to tap into that nature by rolling up one of the new Mag'har Orcs or...

Perfect World Mobile takes to the skies

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Perfect World perhaps doesn't get the recognition and popularity in the west that it enjoys overseas, but this franchise may get another shot at...

The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s Lost City of Omu arrives on consoles (April 29, 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...

SoulWorker makes some of its cash shop items tradable

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It's hard to say how SoulWorker Online is doing in its first month of release here in the west. It's certainly an attractive-looking title,...

Chronicles of Elyria places a premium on player communication

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Bemoaning the current state of (non-)communication in modern MMORPGs, Soulbound Studios said that it has plans to bring back this essential interaction between people...

Time travel-themed ARPG Last Epoch launches Kickstarter and puts out demo

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How is it even possible to make a Diablo-style game more awesome than the original? Easy -- you toss in time travel. Now things...

Camelot Unchained is getting unstable (but that’s OK)

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It's another week of progress and beta preparation for the team at Camelot Unchained. City State Entertainment is running an "unstable build" with lots...
We chill.

Betawatch: World of Warcraft moves Battle for Azeroth to beta testing (April 27, 2018)

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We spent most of this week watching the slow-motion (and not-so-slow-motion) implosion of a well-known company, so it's easy for big beta news to...

Go on a gameplay journey with Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

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It has to be a geeky dream come true to be able to get into a restricted-access MMO and go on an adventure with...

Dauntless fleshes out progression systems in advance of open beta

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If you checked out Dauntless in the past and complained that the game felt like it didn't have enough in the way of character...

Here’s how Defiance 2050’s class unlocks work as the closed beta resumes today

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As previously announced, Trion is running another Defiance 2050 beta event this weekend, this time including console players along with PC players. Worth noting is...

Crowfall’s fly-on-the-wall series shows you how the team is making unique campaign worlds

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The second part of Crowfall's video series is now up which covers the world-building strike team and its efforts to come up with the...

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