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]

Destiny 2 hits the almighty reset button

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"Destiny 2 tells a brand-new story. What happens when a world full of superheroes loses their powers, their history, and their home?" The big almighty...

Here’s when Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind will launch around the globe

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Turns out that a fifth of you are already deep in The Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind head start early access period thanks to your...

Rootin’ tootin’ saloons confirmed for Wild West Online

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What would a western MMORPG be like if it didn't include the classic saloon? A darn poor game, that's what. Fortunately, Wild West Online...
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Secret World Legends: UI changes, blade combat, and City of the Sun God

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The latest Secret World Legends dev stream dished out another serving of information as closed beta continues through the fourth phase. Along with showing...

Rockstar delays Red Dead Redemption 2 to 2018

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Rockstar Games announced last night that it's delayed Red Dead Redemption 2 to spring 2018 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, a result of...

The Stream Team: Wandering the wilds of Conan Exiles

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Some days Massively OP's MJ has a detailed plan she wants to execute. Other days, she just wants to wander around and explore. Today...

Shroud of the Avatar polishes up the desert, teases a moondial

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What's that up in the header screenshot? Is it Conan Exiles? Nope -- it's Shroud of the Avatar's Sequanna Colossus map and my favorite...

Worlds Adrift’s closed beta begins Wednesday

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Make your last farewells to the Worlds Adrift alpha servers: They're going dark tomorrow. That's because the game's closed beta is about to begin,...

Conan Exiles on environmental siege effects, pets, trade, and Zelda-like climbing

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In case you missed the Conan Exiles Twitch stream Friday, and you probably did because who stays home on a beautiful May Friday to...

Ashes of Creation aims to be biggest MMORPG Kickstarter of all time

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"I think in a couple of days we may be the number one Kickstarted MMORPG ever." Dream big, Intrepid Studios! As Ashes of Creation bears...
Not to be confused with BreakLawyers. That's a whole different game from the start.

LawBreakers announces $29.99 PlayStation 4 edition with new Blur trailer

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With the resumption of LawBreakers development chatter last week and the recent NDA-free closed beta round last weekend, you might have guessed that Nexon and...

Dean Hall on his third attempt to build a space station sim with Stationeers

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Stationeers, an upcoming multiplayer survival sim, marks Dean Hall's (DayZ) third attempt to create a space station title. In a recent interview with PC...

Legends of Aria charges straight at the Knight prestige class

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What is a skill-based, freeform character system doing with classes? While it might seem like an oxymoron, Legends of Aria says that it has good...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Morrowind early access launches today – are you playing?

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The Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind not-an-expansion lands on PC this morning, at least for those of you who preordered to pick up early access...

The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s green beetle fiasco (May 21, 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 has now raised $150M in crowdfunds (May 20, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen officially broke the $150,000,000 crowdfunding mark, propelled along by gamers sinking large sums of cash into the latest...

Camelot Unchained finishes UI icons, makes ‘major inroads’ into living world support tech

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Camelot Unchained hopes you're not tired of the words "living world" because its devs are busy making "major inroads into the tech to support"...
Now I am hidden in the woods until they find me

Albion Online’s final pre-launch update is uprooting cities left and right

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Before Albion Online seizes its destiny and launches on July 17th, it is going to have one last hot, sexy fling in testing with...

The Stream Team: Going hog wild for a healer in ARK

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Did you know that pigs are good for more than just bacon? In ARK, giant hogs are good for healing. That's right: A heaping...

Betawatch: Crowfall lets races and classes mingle at will (May 19, 2017)

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The teaser week for Crowfall is over, and it turns out the tease was all about decoupling races and classes altogether. No longer will...

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