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 has added a new elite dungeon and pushed out the planned class balancing patch

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Live in Bless Online today is the Migra Turris elite dungeon for endgame players. It's a level 45 zone intended for a 5-man party...

Fractured’s Kickstarter stretch goals include a dungeon crawler inside an asteroid

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Sitting at about 80% funded with under a week to go, Fractured's Kickstarter campaign may come down to the wire in the end. Even...
Monsters.

Temtem discusses Kickstarter backer rewards, November PC alpha, and 2019 early access

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If you backed Temtem's successful Kickstarter, now is the time to collect at least some of your rewards. Spanish developer Crema has posted up...

Saga of Lucimia updates its four-year-old grouping manifesto

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It's a little strange to consider that Saga of Lucimia has been around in development for four years now, but that's the gestation period...

Chronicles of Elyria starts to pull its game systems together for a full-featured alpha

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Chronicles of Elyria is starting to take all of the pieces that it has been crafting for its ambitious fantasy MMO and pull them...

Digital Extremes’ retro permadeath MMO Survived By has entered closed beta

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Digital Extremes has officially launched Survived By into closed beta today, accompanied by a hefty patch including a new 10-man raid, hardmode dungeons, UI...

The Culling 2 has been canceled as devs agree it was ‘not a game that you asked for’ and return to work on The Culling

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Earlier this week, we covered the shaky launch of Xaviant Games' The Culling 2, a battle royale title that was billed as a new-and-improved sequel...
Plole ray.

Elder Scrolls Online’s Wolfhunter boasts a hunting grounds dungeon that’s fantastically creepy

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The Elder Scrolls Online is really upping its creepy factor in Wolfhunter, if its latest preview of Hircine's Hunting Grounds is any indication. (Seriously,...

MapleStory 2’s second closed beta begins today; here’s a look at the founder packages

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Nexon's MapleStory 2 is barreling toward its western closed beta launch today, complete with new dungeons, quests, the market, and plenty of network stress testing...

Fallout 76 doesn’t want to be labeled as ‘survival,’ shows off emote wheel

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What is Fallout 76? Even Bethesda doesn't seem to have a clear grasp on terminology to label it, avoiding both the MMO and survival...

Citadel Forged With Fire is revamping character creation, PvP, and mana tomorrow

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It's been a hot minute since we checked in with Citadel Forged With Fire, but Blue Isle Studios is pushing through the negative early...
Oh, right.

Haven and Hearth might look simple, but there’s an ocean of crafting goodness under its surface

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Every once in a while here at Massively OP we like to highlight a game that might have flown under pretty much everyone's radar...
ExPLOsions! Overpowerin'

Destiny 2 deploys Solstice of Heroes: Moments of Triumph update

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Good times just might be here if Destiny 2 has anything to say about it. Today, the sci-fi shooter deployed Update 1.2.3 and the...

Dauntless counts 2M players since open beta, announces city-reshaping ‘Coming Storm’ expansion

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Well now, here comes Dauntless with some nice big numbers to boast about from its open beta: Phoenix Labs has apparently counted 2 million...

Fractured pivots from global to regional servers as it pushes toward its Kickstarter goal

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Quite often, you hear MMO gamers lament that their communities are artificially separated into different servers, with all of the problems that that entails....
Make.

Fractured is hosting a livestream on crafting and building today

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Want to know more about crafting and building in Fractured as the game has passed its 75% funding mark? Good news, you'll have a...

Colony simulation MMO Seed blasts you into space in its brand-new pre-alpha teaser

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We've been keeping an eye on Klang Games' MMO Seed since at least last year, when the studio revealed its single-shard simulation mechanics and...

Camelot Unchained nears beta as its crash rate drops to ‘acceptable’ levels

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"From what we've seen so far, we're in really good shape." Mark Jacobs hasn't given us a firm start date for Camelot Unchained's Beta 1...

Star Citizen backer took CIG to small claims court over his refund request – and lost

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The Star Citizen refunds subreddit is often the home of big words and tall tales, but Redditor firefly212 did more than just talk: He...
But we should really not let these guys off the hook for talking big.

Ashes of Creation’s subreddit has been taken over by Intrepid Studios

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Concern and alarm has been raised among the Ashes of Creation community this past week as four members of Intrepid Studios, including CEO Steven...

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