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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Ashes of Creation offers a peek at its Alpha Zero environment

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Point the first: Can we all agree that "Alpha Zero" is a really cool name? It seems weird that we don't have dozens of...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is heading to Xbox One in December

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For too long, the Xbox One has not had nearly enough games in which you wander aimlessly through a town looking for guns before...

Project Genom is finally implementing questing and begins work on weather

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Early access sci-fi MMO Project Genom has a dev team update that's bigger than it first appears. "The first small quest appeared on the...

Escape from Tarkov adds a small arsenal, eyes open beta, and celebrates Halloween

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What happens when you take a city full of trigger-happy mercs and toss in even more weapons and instruments of destruction? Escape from Tarkov...
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Conan Exiles is giving Conan himself a facelift – to make him look younger

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Funcom's latest Conan Exiles newsletter is short and sweet and a week behind, but there are still a few tidbits worth sharing, including an...

Life is Feudal’s Nightfall trailer is properly creepy for Halloween

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We're down to the wire on new Halloween celebrations in MMOs; indeed, some of them are already over thanks to patch schedules! But that's...

Fortnite devs focus on performance issues following 811K weekend concurrency

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If you struggled to play Fortnite this weekend, you're not alone, and Epic Games is on the case. "The Battle Bus had 811K concurrent...
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Worlds Adrift gifts players with a spooky costume

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Do skellys turn your legs to jelly? You might want to give Worlds Adrift a wide berth this Halloween season, then. The dev team treated...

Indie MMO Project Gorgon gets its Halloween on

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Project Gorgon isn't going to let a little thing like "being in alpha" stop it from indulging in the greatest monster-themed holiday of the...

Chronicles of Elyria makes a case for an unique MMO world — with undergarments

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Still a little confused about what Chronicles of Elyria is trying to do that we haven't seen before? The dev team has put together...

Ship of Heroes reveals its Dark Magic Blast powerset just in time for Halloween

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If you're missing the Halloween flair of City of Heroes today as I am, maybe point your eyeballs at Ship of Heroes instead. This...

Building MMO Boundless reaches 181 updates while still in early access

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Whether or not you have forgotten that Boundless (formerly Oort Online) even existed, this voxel-based building MMO has been steadily churning out updates in...

Shroud of the Avatar announces big gameplay change and new trial

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Following the release of its October content update a few days ago, Shroud of the Avatar's weekly newsletter delivered a hodge-podge of smaller news...

Dauntless has rolled out a fresh newbie experience and character customization

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Closed beta MMOARPG Dauntless is rolling out what Phoenix Labs is calling its first major content update, dubbed Forge Your Legend and bejeweled with...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds faces potential censorship in China

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GIbiz has picked up a Bloomberg piece that suggests China may be poised to crack down on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. China's Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association...

Here’s what you missed from last weekend’s Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2017

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While it surely won't comfort anyone angrily counting down the days until alpha 3.0's eventual release to all backers, Star Citizen's CitizenCon 2017 delivered an...

Pantheon’s social systems aren’t ‘simply bringing back the past’

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One of the most interesting things to cover when it comes to Pantheon's development has been its reconciliation of two superficially opposing ideas for...

Chronicles of Elyria raffles off a throne, retools community event to avoid exploits

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Strange things are afoot in Chronicles of Elyria. For starters, there is a single throne available on a North American server that's up for...

The MOP Up: Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet announced (October 29, 2017)

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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...

AdventureQuest 3D overhauls classes and combat

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Not content with the current state of the world, AdventureQuest 3D pushed out a patch this week that overhauled its classes and combat --...

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