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]

VR is still on the table for Star Citizen

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VR-centric website Road to VR has a brief quote from Cloud Imperium Games that might be good news to those of you still hoping...
Vivid lore also allows for more nuanced silliness.

The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of Guild Wars 2’s non-traditional mounts?

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Mounts are the big new thing in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion, and as I've previously mentioned, I was initially concerned about...

Dead Maze shuffles into the crowded zombie survival gamespace

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It's been years since slapping zombies into your game was a novel attraction, yet it still remains a popular feature for players and developers...

The MOP Up: Portal Knights splits up the party (August 13, 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...

Arcfall delays PvP patch as it prepares to transition into alpha

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Here's a little bit of bad news that's followed by a large dose of good news for Arcfall fans. The team announced that it...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen scrubs release windows from 3.0 schedule, Fig investors turn a profit (August 12, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen surprised backers by removing all "aim dates" from its weekly production schedule, which is intended to provide a roadmap...

The Stream Team: A first look at Foxhole

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Massively OP's MJ has played sandboxes set in space, in prehistoric times, in apocalyptic wastelands, and in fantasy worlds. But until now, she hasn't...

Camelot Unchained lays the groundwork for NPCs

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Bot battles is the phrase on everyone's lips over at Camelot Unchained as of late. The team said in this week's newsletter that it...

PSA: Guild Wars 2’s mounts may be causing motion sickness issues

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Longtime readers will know that we take motion sickness from games pretty darn seriously around here, given that we have a writer who's been...

The Stream Team: Battling ARK’s Broodmother

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It's been a while since Massively OP's MJ and the gang have done a Broodmother raid in ARK, so the team might be a...

The Stream Team: Mountaineering in Conan Exiles

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City life didn't quite agree with Massively OP's MJ -- at least not in Conan Exiles. But she's not ready to let a few...
Das Test.

Betawatch: The Exiled limits lives in hopes of extending its life (August 11, 2017)

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If you've been following The Exiled for a bit, you know the game has been struggling to reach a large enough audience to sustain...

Conan Exiles starts its Xbox One preview next week

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With "phase two" of Conan Exiles' world domination strategy rolling out next week, console players will be able to try out the survival sandbox...

H1Z1: King of the Kill is due for a major combat upgrade

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Did you forget H1Z1 is still in early access? We did not! The King of the Kill half in particular is still getting heavy...

Sea of Thieves team gathers around a pup for pirate parley

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Don't let the fluffy puppy distract you from what's truly important information in this week's Sea of Thieves Tales from the Tavern podcast! The...

Lost Ark’s Korean beta features boats, storms, and treasure hunting

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When Lost Ark was first announced back in 2014 as basically the next generation of Diablo-clone in an MMO, I remember being straight-up grabby-hands...
all better!

Destiny 2 is fixing a lot of bugs for its PC beta

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The down side for players looking forward to Destiny 2 on the PC is that they have to wait a little longer for pretty...
Slower than a ray of light.

Investors pour $3.7M into MMO sandbox Dual Universe

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Dual Universe just snagged a positively massive cash injection. According to a press release posted today, private investors have poured $3.7 million in funding...

Guild Wars 2’s free-play Path of Fire preview weekend is live

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Update: It's up, go go go! Ahead of its September 22nd launch, Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion will be on public display this...

Check out Star Citizen’s absurdly detailed in-game hologram smartwatch

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Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner are helming another episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse this week, in the temporarily abbreviated format introduced previously....

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