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]

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...
Personalities

City of Titans is bringing the control lifestyle back, baby

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Raise someone else's hand up if you have fond memories of playing a Controller in City of Heroes. The concept of a crowd control...

The Crew 2’s official launch day and trailer are here, along with a trail of bad reviews

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The Crew 2 has reached its official launch day for console and PC, but maybe don't be too anxious to press the buy button....

Citadel: Forged with Fire begins testing major game overhaul

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Citadel: Forged with Fire underwent a major evolution yesterday as it began testing out a major overhaul to the game's core systems and the...

Rend posts its alpha roadmap and highlights the Highlands

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Curious where the survival sandbox Rend is at in its alpha development? The dev team posted a roadmap on the site that shows current...

Enter to win a copy of Will to Live Online from AlphaSoft and MOP!

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Here's a new one for us: Will to Live Online hit Steam early access back in April. Developer AlphaSoft calls it an "MMORPG-shooter whose...
Pack it in.

Legends of Aria has a huge graphics upgrade in store for closed beta as it kicks off a community scavenger hunt

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Legends of Aria has a big reveal today: It's completely revamped its graphics ahead of its second closed beta. The word Citadel uses is...
PREPARE TO COMPLETE THE PREPARATION FOR COMPLETION

Crowfall explains the Hunger that’s killing everything

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The Hunger is going to destroy everything in Crowfall. That's how the story ends. You can stave it off for a time, and the...

Saga of Lucimia’s latest pre-alpha build includes a ‘completely updated combat system’

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Saga of Lucimia has pushed out a big pre-alpha build this week, thanks to the addition of new contract staff. What's in it? Performance...
It's fine.

Crowfall’s seasonal changes affect more than just the vistas

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Forget oohing and ahhing over day/night cycles in MMORPGs -- Crowfall is bringing whole seasons to its campaign worlds, and they're going to be...

Interview: Worlds Adrift’s Bossa Studios on giving, griefing, and gittin’ gud

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After the launch of Worlds Adrift but prior to E3, we sent off an interview to Bossa Studios and recently received our answers, complete...
Yo.

BioWare: ‘Anthem is unlike anything we’ve ever done’

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Game Informer is enjoying a heapload of exclusives on BioWare's upcoming Anthem, including an interview with the game's leads. The studio said that the...

The Stream Team: Creating a robot army in Outpost Zero

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Massively OP's MJ got a taste of commanding robots in Outpost Zero, and she wants more! She wants to build up a full robot...

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...

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