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]

Hi-Rez’s Realm Royale tightens hitboxes in its latest patch

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Hi-Rez's fantasy-themed battle royale title Realm Royale has just received a major update as it continues through alpha testing. The so-called HITBOKS patch brings...
Take the high road in the high tower.

Crowfall introduces mega deeds and panels for tricking out your Eternal Kingdom castles

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Set aside your castles in the air: Crowfall's castles are built on solid ground. ArtCraft's most recent dev blog is all about them, or...
Factionalized!

Bless Online’s 4th of July patch adds new PvE dailies and a PvP battleground this evening

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Live in Bless Online on the holiday today is the 1.3.0.0 patch as promised, with its two big chunks of new content. PvE players are...

Ashes of Creation claims it’s ‘now among the largest MMOs in production’

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Ashes of Creation claims it's "now among the largest MMOs in production" thanks to the addition of a large crew of new hires and...
Familiar?

Rend highlights its bipedal danger birds, the Rocs

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There is something faintly familiar about Rend's Rocs. Sure, they are hardly the first example of big bipedal birds, but... something about the way...

Camelot Unchained has briefly delayed its 4th of July beta launch because ‘the client crash rate is too damn high’

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Camelot Unchained has postponed its planned 4th of July beta launch in what Mark Jacobs is characterizing as a "short" delay. "It's not going to...

Bless Online’s 4th of July patch offers content for PvE and PvP players

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It's a big week for Bless Online, as Neowiz is prepping an update due to hit right smack in the middle of the 4th...

Pokemon-inspired MMORPG Temtem just funded on Kickstarter with over half a million bucks

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Temtem has just fully funded on Kickstarter to the tune of just about $573,919, with 11,715 backers (the counts will keep fluctuating for a...
Let's not ruin this moment with facts.

Star Citizen’s 3.2 quarterly alpha update is fully live, with new ships, mining, and cash-shop features

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Star Citizen's alpha 3.2 has finally and formally released to all comers, CIG announced this weekend. "In the new patch, Star Citizen players can use...
We all live on a ship of heroes

Ship of Heroes shows off its female soldier armor

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It would be unfair to say that superhero MMOs are based entirely on the strength of their costume creation, but that costume creation is...

Square Enix scoops up Boundless, setting it up for a late 2018 launch

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It's been a while since we last caught up with Boundless, that quirky voxel sandbox that might be better known by its former title,...

The MOP Up: EverQuest II’s scorched sky policy (July 1, 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...
And staying so.

Make My MMO: Fractured and TemTem work Kickstarter as Elite, SOTA, and Aria post big updates (July 1, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding is one of the biggest ever for this little subgenre, make no mistake. TemTem is about to fund. Fractured's Kickstarter...

Vampire MMO Shadow’s Kiss turns on its alpha servers

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Six months after raising over $80,000 in its Kickstarter campaign, Shadow's Kiss is drawing players into its dark alpha test. The alpha servers are now...

Camelot Unchained’s 4th of July beta launch prospects are still ‘too close to call’

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We've updated the end of this article with some words from Mark Jacobs. Last winter, City State Entertainment announced it'd received a big cash investment...
Well, let's give this a shot.

Betawatch: Saga of Lucimia’s combat is updated for pre-alpha (June 29, 2018)

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The nice thing about early testing is that big things can change and it's really all part of the experience. Sure, Saga of Lucimia...

Starfighter Inc expands its alpha test and overhauls its ship systems

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Remember Starfighter Inc? This crowdfunded title was aiming to be a multiplayer spiritual successor to the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games of the 1990s....

Prosperous Universe tackles ship orbits and landings

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When you're creating a space sim that involves both space and ground content, then you're going to have to figure out a way to...

Enter to win a very good boy in Neverwinter: A Darkfish Fey Wolf mount for PC in honor of Mists of Barovia

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To celebrate the arrival of Mists of Barovia for Neverwinter on PC this week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 30 mount keys to give away to our readers! Suratuk’s...

Star Citizen’s 3.2 alpha contains utter rubbish, literally – and Squadron 42 won’t make 2018

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This week's edition of Star Citizen's Around the Verse is taking a detour into a recap of Squadron 42. CIG says it's been working...

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