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]

The Stream Team: Trailblazing in Wild West Online

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It's been a right long time since Massively OP's MJ has moseyed through Wild West Online, and much has changed. One thing has stayed...

Defiance 2050 blasts its way into closed beta this weekend

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Defiance 2050's closed beta - for PC, anyway, since the console version's beta testing has been delayed - is set to launch here not...

Star Citizen deep-dives the guts and glory of the character customization system

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Cloud Imperium Narrative Director Dave Haddock joins the Around the Verse crew for this week's episode of the Star Citizen community video. The majority...
This seems like more of a half-move.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth turns on Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har for character testing

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The first batch of the second wave of allied races are available for testing now on World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth's alpha test....
GIRLS

Radical Heights teases female characters and jumping through windows

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There's still plenty of stuff going on in the development of Radical Heights, and Cliff Bleszinski is showing it off on Twitter. What sort...
Barnum figured people would lose interest long before the point of two million, but hey.

Star Citizen promises shirts for its two million backer milestone

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Back in 2015, Star Citizen passed a million registered users. At this point, the game has passed two million. Three years later, it's doubled....

Elder Scrolls Online’s new video summarizes the snobby elves of Summerset

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Just as Morrowind was much more than elves, so is Summerset, but it's hard for the elves in this elven kingdom not to take...

Conan Exiles just patched in farming, fast travel, The Purge, and the combat revamp on both platforms

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It's a big day over in Conan Exiles, whether you're on PC or Xbox One, as Funcom's just rolled out a major patch ahead...
Straight shot.

MapleStory 2 unveils North American website, closed beta starts next month

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It seems like a no-brainer to bring the sequel to the popular MapleStory westward. And yet we've been waiting for a while now to...
Shoot at me bro.

BioWare: Anthem will be ‘unlike anything you’ve played’

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While not going into any details about the progress of Anthem's development and testing dates, BioWare nevertheless attempted to prime the pump for fans'...

Defiance 2050 delays its console closed beta event, but the PC event will go on as planned

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A couple of weeks ago, Trion announced that it was prepping a big closed beta test for Defiance 2050 across all platforms - this...
Yes, repopulating may be necessary.

The Repopulation previews more of its delayed patch

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The next big update for The Repopulation has not arrived just yet. It's the same reason as before; Idea Fabrik wants to use the...
Yeah, there's no version of this that ends well.

Saga of Lucimia defends Star Citizen’s slow progress, Shroud of the Avatar’s transparency

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One of the challenges for indie and crowdfunded MMORPGs is surely the nature of their development: plugging along without much fanfare, with players seeing...
Oh look.

Boss Key owner Cliff Bleszinski claims that Epic Games is poaching his staff

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If Radical Heights is not a success, it's the fault of Epic Games, according to Cliff Bleszinski. The head of Boss Key Studios recently...

The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 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...

Make My MMO: PAX’s hands-on, Star Citizen’s free-fly, and Camelot’s weekend tests (April 14, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen is running a free-fly this weekend, as teased yesterday. The game's currently testing alpha 3.1.2, which also...
Radical lows.

Betawatch: Radical Heights springs out to predictable lows (April 13, 2018)

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Good news, Boss Key fans! After the studio pretty blatantly gave up on LawBreakers, it turned around and quickly launched its next project, a...

Lazarus sponsors a free weekend in order to break its game

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What's the fastest way to ruin your house? Throw a free party to people with no inhibitions, of course. So what's the fastest way...

Here’s how to playtest Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset chapter next week

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Summerset is closer than you think! The Elder Scrolls Online team announced today that the chapter is expected to hit the test server on...

Star Citizen runs down ships and kicks off a free-fly weekend

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On this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, I can't decide whether Sandi Gardiner or Eric Kieron Davis has the cooler shirt, but it...

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