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]

SpatialOS MMORPG sandbox Fractured has just gone live with its $116K Kickstarter

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If you've been following Fractured and SpatialOS as long as we have, then you're probably right on top of the game's Kickstarter launch today....

Check out the landscapes and legendary local lore of Fallout 76

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We're not allowed to forget about Fallout 76 for even an instant, apparently: Bethsoft has posted up the epic Welcome to West Virginia video that...

Citadel of Sorcery shuts down after 14 years of development

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Chances are that you have never heard of Citadel of Sorcery. MJ, our resident "has played every MMO in the universe" expert, only vaguely...

The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s five-year anniversary and Ravenloft campaign (June 24, 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...

Multiplayer sandbox Staxel builds out NPCs, pet shops, and summer festivals

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Staxel took over the playtime of a bunch of my Twitter buddies this past winter when it hit early access on Steam. We described...

Pearl Abyss offers a maddening glimpse at its top-secret Project K

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While Project K is still under wraps over at Pearl Abyss, the studio did sneak a very brief teaser about the game into a...
Watch us sit down and program!

Make My MMO: SOTA sees layoffs, Crowfall sees delay, Star Citizen sees shade, and Camelot Unchained sees beta on the horizon (June 23, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained is in the home stretch before open beta. Yes, really, open beta. This is happening, people! Clear...

‘The pressure is on’ for Camelot Unchained’s beta test

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"The pressure is on, but in the best of ways. The energy in the studio is incredible, we are all excited about how close...
Oh, I get it.

Project Gorgon brings out catalog golems to help search player shops

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One of Project Gorgon's old-school-made-new-again features is the incorporation of player vendors. And while that's all well and good to let players sell their...

SOS fully abandons its classic mode, and its Steam reviews are a dumpster fire

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Outpost Games sent round a mailer this week announcing that SOS Battle Royale is now "free to play forever," thanks to its latest patch,...

Bless Online plans a big server merge for the end of July

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Bless Online hasn't quite yet dug out of the hole it made for itself during its early access launch, but at least Neowiz has...

Star Citizen deep-dives its new grouping mechanics in a shortish Around the Verse

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According to this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, the team's been hard at work on facial rigging, mining, audio effects (yes, pew pew...

The Crew 2 jolts into open beta with the help of Red Bull as Steam reviews hit ‘mostly negative’

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There's the waving flag for The Crew 2's open beta test, so get out on the track this weekend and take the multiplayer's vehicles...

Saga of Lucimia brings a new character creator and elemental magic to Release 10

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Mark your calendars for June 29th, because on that day Saga of Lucimia is going to turn back on its test server to give...

Trion throws open Defiance 2050’s gates for another beta round this weekend

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Trion is running yet another beta round for Defiance 2050 as the reboot heads to open testing on PC this weekend, starting tomorrow afternoon...

Bless Online patches in a 3v3 arena and class buffs as players call for server merges

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Bless Online is trucking out a brand-new patch today. The highlight is the Certanon Arena, essentially a 3v3 best-of-five PvP minigame for level 45...

Worlds Adrift teaches you to git gud, promises instruments someday

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Still having a rough time in Worlds Adrift? Bossa Studios has a new humorous guide out to help players "git gud." Among the tips...
Cool guys don't look at explosions.

Defiance rolls out Midsummer Mutiny just before the Defiance 2050 Valor cutoff

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There are no new Pursuits for the latest incarnation of the Midsummer Mutiny event in original flavor Defiance. You will be doing the same things...
Place after place.

Crowfall shines more light on its day/night cycle

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With a fully dynamic world that involves varied spawns, parcels that are moved around, and generated terrain, the Crowfall team had a tougher challenge...

E3 2018: Hands-on with ReEvolve, Perfect World’s new mobile sandbox MMORPG

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Remember how we learned that Perfect World would be showing off some new games at E3? Well, things happen at conventions like this -...

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