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]

Forsaken Legends team gets diverted into zombie survival territory

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It's been a very long, very strange road for Forsaken Legends. This ambitious fantasy sandbox garnered some attention when it began to sell prelaunch...

The MOP Up: Warface heads to PlayStation 4 (August 19, 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...

Perpetuum is back from the dead thank to the Open Perpetuum Project, all with the original developer’s blessing

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One of the biggest losses to the MMORPG genre last year was sci-fi sandbox MMORPG Perpetuum Online. The Avatar Creations devs threw in the...

Make My MMO: Two canceled MMO Kickstarters and two languishing, but plushies for the win (August 18, 2018)

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It's been a weird week in MMO crowdfunding. The Codename Reality Kickstarter isn't looking good; devs have raised under 2% of their original half a million dollar...

The Stream Team: A first look at DEATHGARDEN

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If a new game is going to give out a free weekend, that sounds like a pretty decent time to check it out! Massively...

Ashes of Creation preps for September’s Alpha 1, shows off its action combat

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Need a good dose of Ashes of Creation news to spice up your week? Intrepid Studios popped its head back up to talk up...
The next few months, then.

Betawatch: Fallout 76 shares details on PvP and crossplay (August 17, 2018)

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There's still stuff happening with Fallout 76, even though players aren't testing it yet. You can at least test things out in your mind...

Crowfall: New marketing boss, bestiary entry, player mapping, and the Mother of Cats

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Crowfall has a bunch of smallish pieces of news this week that we don't want to miss. First, ArtCraft announced that it's picked up a...

The Stream Team: All your base are belong to Rend

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One of the best things about Rend is its emphasis on teamwork and cooperation. And although Massively OP's MJ is only one person, she...

Rend moves to new server hardware, throws out a huge balance patch

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Rend is enjoying some strong popularity since transitioning into early access at the end of July. To handle the influx of interested adventurers, Frostkeep Studios...

Star Citizen shows off atmo moon landscapes, dishes on the studio’s dev process

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In this week's Around the Verse, Star Citizen's Sandi Gardiner and Chris Roberts have a stack of gorgeous environmental pan shots for your to...

Behaviour’s DEATHGARDEN survival shooter hits early access, is free-to-play right now

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What's Behaviour Interactive been up to since taking Eternal Crusade free-to-play, pondering a battle royale mode, and being sued by Bethsoft? Getting its caps...
Baby were born to run from the other side.

Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide

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GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...

Hi-Rez’s Realm Royale playerbase and reviews are way down on Steam

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Yikes - Realm Royale is apparently struggling, proving once again just how hard it is to break into one of these new runaway subgenres. GitHyp...

Pre-alpha colony sim MMO Seed will grant players the tools to fight toxicity

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Seed resurfaced this summer after intensive work by studio Klang Games building out the colony simulation MMO (plus a big influx of investor money),...
HOORAY

Fallout 76 won’t allow crossplay but is talking up mods and multiplayer

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Bethesda isn't really that keen on allowing crossplay with its games these days. The studio recently confirmed that Fallout 76 isn't going to feature...

Torchlight Frontiers is being built by an ‘all-star team’ of former Torchlight and Diablo II devs

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"So now I am very, very pleased to announce to everybody that we are taking the next step with Torchlight and making an MMO." By...

The Black Death starts you in your underpants. Deal with it.

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Thanks to the latest patch for the medieval survival sandbox The Black Death, all players will start their lives in the game in their...

Zeal tosses out patches like there’s no tomorrow

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Did our reporting on Zeal get you interested about the possibilities for this upcoming action RPG? Then you might want to be tracking the...

Broke Protocol is currently free on Steam to celebrate its first birthday

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Remember Broke Protocol, the funky sandbox that's basically a mash-up of Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto, with voxel graphics bolstering cops-and-robbers gameplay? It's apparently...

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