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 MOP Up: FFXIV’s Eorzean Symphony (February 18, 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...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s beta will be born on the fourth of July (February 17, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained invites you to break out the sparklers because the game will finally launch its long-delayed beta one...

Fight to the top in Reign of Guilds’ hardcore medieval world

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Is there room enough in this industry for another self-proclaimed hardcore, old school MMORPG with all of the PvP fixins? Russian-based Atlant Games is...

Betawatch: The beta for mobile MMOARG Maguss is about to begin (February 16, 2018)

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Remember Maguss, the Harry Potter-esque ARG everyone was buzzing around right up until Pokemon Go company Niantic said it was making Harry Potter: Wizards...
Hot.

Dauntless details its closed beta by the numbers

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As Phoenix Labs powers toward Dauntless' open beta later this year, it took a few minutes to tally up some Big Numbers from its...

Worlds Adrift fears not this Blight

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By the sound of it, the Blight is probably not a healthy, safe phenomenon for Worlds Adrift players to encounter. And yet, both the...

Pantropy works to simplify crafting and protect players from offline raids

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With $24k out of $94k raised so far, the German mech shooter Pantropy has a long road ahead of it in its Kickstarter campaign. The...

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up our adventures in Project Gorgon

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There's a familiar situation to players of tabletop games wherein a sidequest becomes more important than the main quest, and you wind up taking...

Conan Exiles is delaying mounts, pets, settlements, and sorcery to make its May 8 launch

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Funcom is forging ahead with its plans to launch Conan Exiles for real and for true on all the things come May 8th. And,...

Star Citizen’s new $185 Aegis Vulcan support ship is so ugly it’s cute

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On this week's episode of Around the Verse, Star Citizen's Sandi Gardiner and Chris Roberts bookend segments on the ship pipeline in the game....
What a dump.

Stardew Valley multiplayer beta is due out for the spring

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If you've long looked forward to farming with and marrying your friends in Stardew Valley, the day is inching ever closer. While the game's...

AdventureQuest 3D comes to a head with the Dragons of Ashfall

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The third and final chapter of AdventureQuest 3D's epic Dragons of Ashfall is now live. After months of battling up and through a volcano,...
Three-point landing! Sort of.

Bless Online looks ahead to new races, housing, and a possible console edition

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Six months. Six months is the countdown timer from the start of Bless Online's early access to the game's official launch, according to developer...

Dauntless argues ‘bespoke purchases’ are replacing the lockbox model

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It might be tempting to think that the industry is doomed and that no studio will ever be able to ignore the siren song...
Tricks and trade.

Pantheon’s State of the Game touts pre-alpha and Elves

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"Pre-alpha." By far, this is the focus of Pantheon's February state of the game post by Creative Director Chris Perkins, who reports that the testing has...

Project Genom’s morgue is almost open for business

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You know what every good MMO needs? A fully functional morgue. Considering just how many corpses players accrue over a career, it's not a...

War of Rights’ Civil War battlefield is up to 16 maps

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In case you haven't been reading the newspapers hot off the wire, the Civil War is still waging (at least, on the test server)....
smacks

Crowfall’s latest development stream is all about hello and goodbye

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If you missed the most recent development livestream from Crowfall's team, you can watch it now just below. And it's covering a lot of...

Sea of Thieves will make your character for you

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As an online multiplayer RPG, Sea of Thieves is making its own playbook instead of copy-and-pasting features and structure directly from other games. One...

Fortnite’s Valentine event isn’t launching today [Updated]

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Hope you PvE folks didn't have your Valentine hearts set on that Fortnite update that was supposed to roll out today because... it didn't. As...

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