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]

Artsy MMO Occupy White Walls patches in new assets, including a bar

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Back in April, we first covered in-development MMORPG Occupy White Walls, a "PC sandbox-building, AI-driven MMO where people play with Art" rather than wander around...

Soulbound readies Chronicles of Elyria for pre-alpha

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Here is some exciting news for Chronicles of Elyria's fans: The project is nearing its first alpha phase as the dev team lays down...

Fractured answers scores of fan questions, plans to compete with Albion Online

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Small but ambitious fantasy sandbox Fractured compiled a host of fan questions this past weekend and released an hour-long video in which the lead...

Defiance 2050 wraps up its second beta test and promotes its classes

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With a multi-platform launch coming sometime this summer, Defiance 2050 has a lot resting on its new free-to-play format and additional refinements. To help...

Star Citizen players grumble over warbonds, insurance, and the latest concept ship promotion

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Last week, Cloud Imperium began teasing a brand-new concept ship for Star Citizen, the Hercules Starlifter and its variants. While most gamers will roll...
Batty.

Project Gorgon lets players get more stabby, enlists them into the clergy

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If you've been missing meaty dev blogs from the Project Gorgon team, then turn that frown upside-down: There's a massive new article up about...

Two new battalions march into the Civil War MMO War of Rights

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The conflict between the North and the South continues to escalate as both the 5th Alabama and 87th Ohio battalions join War of Rights...

The MOP Up: Battlerite royale (May 6, 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...

Vantage throws players into a primitive survival situation

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We're no tiger experts or anything, but from a careful analysis of the above picture, we're going to say that guy is not long...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s Physician, Pantropy’s second Kickstarter’s a charm (May 5, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pantropy may happen this time! Its second attempt at a Kickstarter has raised over three times its ask so far...

Bless Online shows off the Paladin’s healing abilities in new video

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Bless Online's YouTube channel may have inexplicably deleted itself last week, but that doesn't mean the team has stopped putting out videos. "In addition to...
The path was found after all.

Whatever happened to Line of Defense, The Exiled, and Pathfinder Online?

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Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...

Dauntless hauls out its ‘biggest and most impactful’ patch to date

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Dauntless isn't a game that does things in a small way, from its fearsome behemoth foes to the patches it delivers. And with Closed...

Star Citizen looks ahead to 3.2, unveils the new Hercules Starlifter concept ship for sale next week

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CIG's Sandi Gardiner and Eric Kieron Davis are back with another installment of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, bookending a brief check-in with the...

Dual Universe builds up development forward momentum

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MMO development is rarely steady and even; there are ups and downs, fast periods and slow cycles. Sometimes the slower patches are necessary to...

Chronicles of Elyria reveals the wetlands, pokes through inventory, and celebrates its Kickstarter-versary

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Can you make a swamp look beautiful? Chronicles of Elyria is doing its absolute best to do just that with its newest biome, the...

Elder Scrolls Online will make you a master of time itself

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Time manipulation is a tricky thing to do in a multiplayer live environment, but every so often, an MMO attempts to do just that....

Conan Exiles outlines its day-one patch plans as players grumble over preorder bonuses

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With less than a week to go before launch, the Conan Exiles team is putting out one last newsletter with the plan for the...

The Survivalist: Seven survival games I want to love, but can’t… yet

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Well that didn't take long! There are a plethora of survival sandboxes out there for fans to play (as you can see from our...

Ashes of Creation reflects on its post-Kickstarter year

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If Kickstarter truly kickstarted the gaming public's interest in Ashes of Creation, then the team is not complaining. In fact, Intrepid Studios sent out...

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