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]

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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth adds new Blood Elf eyes and new models with its latest build

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Blood Elf Paladins in World of Warcraft are drawing upon the power of the Sunwell, but they still have the same fel-green eyes as...

ARK-inspired PixARK enters early access

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It's a big day for a small game. If you've been seeking a title that has the visual aesthetics of Trove and the dino-taming madness...

Over 2,000,000 people have now registered accounts for Star Citizen

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Star Citizen hit another milestone this week: It's reached 2,000,000 citizens. Accounts, specifically. The game has been in production since before its Kickstarter launched almost...

Shroud of the Avatar officially launches today

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The sun is rising over New Britannia today with the official release of Shroud of the Avatar. While the game has been in a...

Shroud of the Avatar launches tomorrow, firms up release candidate

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With weeks days hours to go before Shroud of the Avatar officially launches with Release 52, the crew at Portalarium are working on firming...

Project Gorgon warns alpha users that their free ride is ending

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For a very long time now -- we are talking years, here -- Project Gorgon has operated a free public alpha to anyone who...

Chronicles of Elyria puts constraints on your character’s creation

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"Character creation" is the watchword of the week at Chronicles of Elyria. In addition to a developer livestream that showed off the first iteration...

Bless says its excessive attention to environmental detail is in the service of immersion

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With Bless Online due out on western shores this coming May, players who've never paid much attention to this Korean-born MMO may be wondering...
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GDC 2018: The Legends of Aria devs talk closed beta, gankbox PvP, and the MMORPG genre

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One thing I love about GDC compared to other conventions I cover is how many actual developers I get to talk to, especially without...

GDC 2018: Hands-on with Trion’s ‘reimagined’ Defiance 2050

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Before my GDC interview with Producer Matt “Destromathe” Pettit last week, I was really frustrated with the news about Defiance 2050. I wasn't a huge fan...

The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XIV gets primal (March 25, 2017)

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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...
Fun is sometimes relative.

Ultima Online continues testing free-to-play patch

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Can you smell it? The sweet scent of spring is in the air -- and free-to-play trials as well! Ultima Online is on the...

Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous players expose ‘wanker function’ hacker (March 24, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite Dangerous players scoped out the dirty doings of the paid HCS voice pack plugin, which was apparently intentionally and...

Camelot Unchained rescues lost souls trapped underground

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In one of the quieter weeks for Camelot Unchained as of late, the dev team nevertheless made progress toward this July's beta test. Among the...
A long time ago, in a galaxy... oh, you know.

EA is reportedly making an online, open-world Star Wars game

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Depending on your feelings toward Electronic Arts and Star Wars, the news that the publisher is working on a new open-world game set in...

Star Citizen brings back old ships for sale, asks backers to vote on alpha 3.2’s priority projects

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Do you have too much money? Awesome. Star Citizen has some ideas for where you can spend it - say, on some new ships?...
Blessed not be.

Betawatch: A Bless Online-ed event (March 23, 2018)

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After all of the false starts, delays, and dearths of information, we finally know the truth this week. Bless Online is coming to early...

The Black Death has spawned an actual popularity contest

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If you thought your days of losing popularity contests were over when you left school, think again! Indie survival sandbox The Black Death is...

Mavericks takes battle royale in the direction of an MMO

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Normally there's a firm line of separation between battle royale-style multiplayer shooters and the full-fledged MMORPG, but Automaton's Mavericks may be about to change...

Dauntless continues to refine its user interface to balance form and function

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As Dauntless pushes through beta and toward launch, the team is hard at work refining its user interface to strike that critical balance between...

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