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]

Magic: The Gathering Arena moves into the next phase of its closed beta

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Wizards of the Coast's most famous card game continues to prepare its newest multiplayer version for public consumption. This Thursday, Magic: The Gathering Arena...
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Conan Exiles talks currencies, map rooms, and the armor rebalance

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If you missed last week's Conan Exiles stream, you actually missed some good stuff. The big news centers on the economic system en route...
All good, sure, why not.

Legends of Aria is pushing out a quality-of-life patch ahead of PAX East

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The next big patch for Legends of Aria does not signal the start of the next beta phase. Instead, it signals moving to a...
Oh, you're busy, we can come back later.

Wild West Online outlines the massive changes coming March 20

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Hoo-ee. There's a whole mess of stuff in the newest patch for Wild West Online, so much so that the patch notes are jam-packed...
LOUD NOISES!

Fortnite dominates iOS mobile charts, PUBG soft launches in North America, and somebody stabs somebody else over PUBG

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Fortnite's mobile version is already kicking butt and taking names, even landlocked to iOS. According to app-tracker SensorTower, the game is ranked #1 for...

The Stream Team: Project Gorgon’s newbie dungeon is dark and full of terrors

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Last week Massively OP's MJ entered Project Gorgon's first dungeon, but she didn't realize it would be a dungeon! There was much more to...

Here’s when Sea of Thieves officially launches around the globe

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Ahoy and avast and all that, pirate peeps. Are you ready for Sea of Thieves' official launch? If you're in Australia, you're already in....

Shroud of the Avatar addresses account migrations and teases R52 content, including female vendors

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Shroud of the Avatar's next-to-last newsletter before its final launch is here, and it's chock-full of release 52 teases - that's the patch that'll...
Not happening.

Saga of Lucimia will fight wiki infodumps with sparse patch notes

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You know how when it's patch day in your favorite MMORPG and you're skimming the patch notes trying to figure out what exactly changed,...
Upon the fields of barley etc

Camelot Unchained works on crafting and building prototypes

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Building blocks and baby steps: This is the approach that Camelot Unchained is taking in developing some of its key systems for the upcoming...

The MOP Up: Enter the Phantom Halls — if you dare! (March 18, 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...

Reign of Guilds moves toward alpha testing, talks about the game’s creation

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With 15 developers now on staff and progression toward an alpha build, Reign of Guilds is slowly but surely taking shape as a hardcore...

One Hour One Life gives you 60 minutes to rebuild civilization

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If you only had one hour to live your entire life, what would you do? This is the intriguing premise of the new multiplayer survival...

Make My MMO: Dual Universe picks up former EVE Online dev, Project Gorgon hits early access (March 17, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, French website AFJV reported that Dual Universe studio Novaquark has snapped up one of the original EVE Online designers: Hrafnkell...

Pantropy cancels its Kickstarter, rejects publishing offers, plans a new Kickstarter

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As we've been covering in Make My MMO, the Kickstarter for sci-fi MMO shooter Pantropy hadn't been going as well as developer Brain Stone...
Again, and again, and again.

Betawatch: TERA does the beta warp again (March 16, 2017)

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The first round of open beta testing for TERA on consoles went well. (According to the developers, at least.) What can be done to...

Don’t lose your head in Crowfall — but you probably will

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It's not too common to see game developers giddy about beheading, but then again, most developers aren't part of the Crowfall team. ArtCraft is giving...

Ship of Heroes looks at ways to boost performance on older computers

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While it is certainly too early for Ship of Heroes to be posting its full system requirements, the team did discuss some of the...

ROKH studio Darewise says it’s not abandoning the survival sandbox for new sci-fi MMO Project C

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Survival sandbox fans will be pleased to know that ROKH hasn't been abandoned. The game's given the appearance of struggling over the past couple...

Sea of Thieves has more content than you think

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One of the concerns that some players have held about Sea of Thieves, especially after its public betas, is that the pirate game appears...

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