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]

Bless Online’s Rift of Space and Time update is live with new endgame content

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If there's an honest to goodness rift in space and time, you should probably not be wasting your precious seconds left in the universe...

Old School RuneScape’s mobile version launches October 30

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Just in time for Halloween, Old School RuneScape will be formally launching for mobile. Jagex announced this morning that OSRS will land on both...

The Cycle plans September closed alpha, offers new gameplay trailer

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We've been following YAGER's upcoming online shooter The Cycle all summer; as we put it in July, it looks like a survival sandbox with...

Hardcore ‘MMOPEG’ sandbox Codename Reality has failed to fund on Kickstarter, vows to continue

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Just about a month ago, we covered a brand-new Kickstarter from a brand-new MMORPG called Codename Reality. Actually, European developer Orode Productions called it...

PAX West 2018: Survival MMO Rend’s surprising art, Dorito map, faction PvP, and inbound PvE

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If this PAX West 2018 was about one thing, it was about proving me wrong. I jumped into the Rend interview expecting a specific type...

Star Citizen’s latest Reverse the Verse video focuses on persistent universe design

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Roberts Space Industries recently released its latest Reverse the Verse video dev-blog, and it's a doozy. The full video, which is chock-full of information...

Frodo lives: A new Lord of the Rings MMORPG is apparently in the works

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If you've been one of the folks begging for a new Lord of the Rings MMO, well, then today's your lucky day. Online sports game...

PAX West 2018: Anthem shuns content paywalls, lockboxes while embracing ‘reactive storytelling’

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More information from BioWare's Anthem presentation at PAX West this weekend has continued to roll out, bolstering the gorgeous trailer and potentially worrisome story-related...

PAX West 2018: Ashes of Creation maps out its alpha testing for the next year

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If you missed the Ashes of Creation panel at PAX West on Saturday, you'll be forgiven - and richly rewarded all the same, as...
Upon the fields of barley etc

Camelot Unchained recaps a week’s progress while showing off animations

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If you missed it, Camelot Unchained has spent the week testing. Patience? No, testing the game, and there's even an hour-long Q&A session recapping...

The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds lets gamers tattle on each other (September 2, 2018)

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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...
Hooray, no shouting LFG for hours, that's enticing.

PAX West 2018: Anthem’s trailer touts ‘real-time storytelling’ content

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BioWare published a new trailer for Anthem at PAX West today, this one focused on the game world and just what you'll be doing...

New World’s forts and campfires will be your sanctuaries against the darkness

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If you're hungry for even more New World previews, then PCGamesN has another take on the same demo that outlets got to experience at...

PAX West 2018: Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire arrives on the PTS September 17

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At its PAX West presentation last night, ZeniMax showed attendees an overview of content coming in Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming Murkmire DLC, which will...
Finally.

Betawatch: New World is strutting its stuff (August 31, 2018)

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Finally, we're getting some actual information about New World! Like the parrot, it appears to have not been dead but simply resting. And now...

Neowiz previews Bless Online’s Rift of Space and Time, slated for next week

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Bless Online has a new Steam preview post up this afternoon, this one focused on some fresh content for the beleaguered MMORPG. The headline...

Crowfall peels apart the layers of the Ranger’s sound design

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"Great sound designers are among the unsung heroes of game development. When their work is on point, it blends seamlessly into the game’s environment,...

Star Citizen partially reverses CitizenCon streaming paywall decision after community erupts

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Note: We've updated the end of this post with the latest developments since the article went live Friday morning. The Star Citizen subreddit has been...

PWE’s Jade Dynasty has been resurrected as a mobile MMO

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June was a rough month for Perfect World, as it sunsetted two of its oldest MMORPGs, Swordsman and Jade Dynasty. But it appears Jade...

New World rebuilds civilization with the help of player quests and scaling tech

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Hungry for more information about Amazon's New World past a fairly obscure website's advance preview of the game? You can head over to PC...

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