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]

MMOs you’ve never heard of: Terra Mango, Royal Blood, and The Tomorrow Children

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Welcome back to another edition of MMOs You've Never Heard Of, where we pull together a few interesting little games we don't want to...
It's going to be LEGEN- ah, who cares.

MU Legend hits open beta in September

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Open beta: the magical time when a game is available for everyone to play at all times. Mu Legend has flitting through closed beta...

Shroud of the Avatar kicks off another fundraising stream, this one for Lord British’s birthday

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Didn't Shroud of the Avatar just have a telethon? It did! But this is a special one in honor of Portalarium founder and MMORPG...

Here’s how Crowfall is overhauling its skill system

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Crowfall's ramping up the dev blogs this week with a fresh one on the skills system. "Skills are one of the main methods of...

West of Loathing has a showdown with an August release date

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It's high noon on the streets of a dusty town, and one game is prepared to draw and fire... in about a month. West...

Here’s everything coming in Elder Scrolls Online’s Horns of the Reach DLC

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Back at E3, we got a sneak peek into The Elder Scrolls Online's post-Morrowind plans -- how could ZeniMax follow something like Morrowind up?...

ARK Survival Evolved has doubled in price ahead of August 8 launch

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Welp, hope you bought ARK: Survival Evolved back when it was super cheap on Steam because its price has now increased for PC players...

The Stream Team: Albion Online’s beta winds down

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It's been a long while since Massively OP's MJ has explored Albion Online, and she's eager to get back in before the beta doors...

Crowfall says its biggest parcels are crazy expensive because they’re meant for guilds

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Last month, we included Crowfall among the games discussed in a Massively Overthinking roundtable that focused on MMO monetization running amok. Why? Because Crowfall...

Albion Online plans huge beta finale ahead of July 17 launch

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Albion Online is finally making the transition from beta to launch this month. Sandbox Interactive has posted a timeline of events leading up to...
More for the slaughter once again.

Crowfall Q&A video covers number squish and the difference between disciplines and classes

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Do you like numbers? It's summer, you shouldn't have to think about math! That's OK, the Crowfall team will deal with that for you. In this...

Crossout hits 3M players, bans almost 1K of them for cheating

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Things are cruising along rather well for the post-apocalyptic death car MMO Crossout, as the team reported late last week that the game had...

Wild West Online extends preorder program, posts alpha server list

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Let's get the bad news out of the way first: Wild West Online had to delay getting its promised gameplay video out. The team...

With R43 behind it, Shroud of the Avatar looks ahead to Q3

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Shroud of the Avatar's 43rd release dropped over the weekend, boasting tweaks to the Path of the Oracle, performance updates, a balancing pass for...

Albion Online winds down beta, prepares for launch

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With 250,000 backers supporting it and a team of 50 working on it, Albion Online is just about ready for its prime time debut....

Ship of Heroes gets down and dirty with its street sweeper powerset

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Just because your city street happens to be located in a massive starship hurtling through the cosmos doesn't mean that it lacks for cleaning...

The MOP Up: Warframe’s Chains of Harrow (July 2, 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: Elite Dangerous journeys to PS4, we interview Kickstarted MMO devs (July 1, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Frontier launched Elite Dangerous for the PS4, complete with relevant adjustments for touchpad controls and a "fast headlook" mode for...

Camelot Unchained: Explosions, music, and death to getting one-shotted

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Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs helms this week's studio update, with a peek into the team's progress on shadows, archery and combat animations, siege engines,...

Star Citizen Caterpillar sales resume, particle system explained

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In this week's episode of Around the Verse, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner cap off another round of developer updates on the...

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