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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Warframe’s Plains of Eidolon expansion launches open-world ‘landscapes’ today

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It's been a thrill, I think you'll agree, to watch over the last couple of years as Digital Extremes' Warframe defied the rule that most online...

The Stream Team: Taking a look at Total War: Arena

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At PAX West Massively OP's MJ got to see a demo of Total War: Arena gameplay. Since then, she's been looking forward to playing...

Daybreak is launching a pro league for H1Z1 e-sports

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If you were wondering what Daybreak is up to as we have been, wonder no more: It's been putting together a pro league for...

Fortnite’s infographic claims 10 million battle royale players within the last fortnite

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Remember a few days back when Fortnite broke half a million concurrent players with its contentious free-to-play battle royal mode, the one that earned...
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Crowfall’s hour-long stream previews the game’s next big patch

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Testing for Crowfall is still in full swing, and that means that when you watch something like the most recent hour-long stream, you do...
No gods, no masters.

Chronicles of Elyria unveils its official launch kingdoms

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail forever gave us the perfect test for whether or not someone is the king: see if he's got...

Fractured introduces its complex horizontal leveling system

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Since this past summer, we've had our eye on Fractured, yet another SpatialOS MMO on the way to hard drives everywhere. If it’s not on...

Wild West Online delays early access alpha: ‘It just ain’t ready yet’

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A couple of weeks ago, MOP's Justin and I expressed heavy skepticism that Wild West Online could ever be ready on schedule this fall....

Ship of Heroes has finished up its first character creator alpha – here’s what you built

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Quietly zipping along this fall is City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes, which has been running a small external alpha test with...

Hate voice chat? You can make it walk the plank in Sea of Thieves

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If you've watched any of the footage of players and devs hamming it up on voice chat while playing Sea of Thieves, you've probably...

Dark and Light investigates Gobboween and reveals more icy creatures

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Just because Dark and Light is in early access and has another content patch under construction doesn't mean that it is going to fully...

C-3PO lookalike joins Shroud of the Avatar in release 47

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OK, so C-3PO isn't really being imported into Shroud of the Avatar, but the game's new automaton sure looks a lot like him (minus...

Prosperous Universe is an indie sci-fi sandbox MMORPG focused on player economy

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So here's an MMO we've never heard of before: It's called Prosperous Universe. It's super duper indie alpha browser-based massively online game, with single-shard...

Virtual Earth Online looks like a Minecraft and Second Life mash-up

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So you're tired of visiting far-flung post-apoc space stations, fantasy ghost castles, underground slime lairs, and zombie grottos on Mars. What's next? How about......

Leaderboard: Are you one of the 2M people playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds today?

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds just keeps on growing globally: It's completely outstripped every other game on Steam in terms of concurrency, having now set a new...
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Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC arrives October 23

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Elder Scrolls Online has just put a date on the launch of the much-anticipated Clockwork City DLC bundle, which is taking players deep into...

The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Taiwan meet-and-greet (October 8, 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...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen is hosting parties for space whales (October 7, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, I hope you've got your special black Star Citizen VIP card because CIG has invited concierge-level backers -- sorry, space...

Camelot Unchained fleshes out character creation backgrounds, animations, and UI

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This week's Camelot Unchained update is a top 10 list with 17 items, which is the sort of thing our own Perfect Ten writers...

The Daily Grind: Do you have a hard time connecting with isometric MMOs?

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Let's talk perspective today. No, not your general outlook on life -- which I'm sure is cheery and as non-cynical as can be --...

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