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]

Roleplay-centric Project Oasis World fails to fund

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It has certainly been a rough summer for Kickstarter MMORPGs. On the heel of a pair of failed projects from last week comes the...

Ashes of Creation addresses My.com concerns, localization, pay-to-win, publishing, and regionlocks

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Earlier this week, the Ashes of Creation team sparked a wildfire of concern when it announced that it'll partner with My.com to publish the...

Gamescom 2018: Fallout 76 video covers the basics of C.A.M.P. building

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"When your home looks important, you are important!" One of Fallout 76's key features for its persistent world is player housing -- or what Bethesda...

Gamescom 2018: MapleStory 2 sets October 10 launch date

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Some players are bursting at the seams to take MapleStory to the next level -- and the next dimension. Fortunately, the wait for them...

Gamescom 2018: Torchlight Frontiers gets gory and goofy in its first gameplay video

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As Perfect World is giving Gamescom attendees a look at Torchlight Frontiers' demo this week, those stuck at home can at least soothe themselves with...

New World preview from Gamescom slips into the wild as Amazon announces alpha signups

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The first previews of Amazon Game Studios' New World MMORPG are finally trickling in from Gamescom just as the wraps are coming off the...

Funcom’s Mutant Year Zero is launching on December 4 on PC and console

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"Funcom and The Bearded Ladies" still sounds like an indie rock band to me, so imagine this post is a song, shall we? The...

The Stream Team: A first foray into Outpost Zero multiplayer

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Your voices have been heard! The votes is in and Massively OP's MJ is heading back into Outpost Zero for some more robotic survival....

My.com will publish Ashes of Creation in Europe and the CIS region [Updated]

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We've updated at the end of the article with an additional statement from Intrepid. Ashes of Creation is barreling on toward its first real alpha,...

The Stream Team: Returning to the Deathgarden

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The free trial of DEATHGARDEN is still going, so Massively OP's MJ is diving right back in for some more... well, death. Hopefully she...

The Stream Team: A first look at Broke Protocol

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Now that Massively OP's MJ is more amenable to blocky games, it's time to up the ante with Broke Protocol! A persistent sandbox game,...

Camelot Unchained works on a 64-bit client and lovely new lighting

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All this month, Camelot Unchained has been in the thick of its Beta 1 test, and so far, it doesn't look like the devs...

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...

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