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]

PUBG delays roadmap to March, retools ping-lock plans

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The ping-locking system that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds began testing last month is finally back on track, PUBG Corp says today on Steam. The team says...

The Stream Team: Peeking back into Project Gorgon

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It has been a long while since Massively OP's MJ has played any Project Gorgon. That's because this was one of those games she...
Look in my eyes, what do you see? Creative bankruptcy.

Daybreak’s zombie battle royale game H1Z1 has lost 90% of its playerbase since July

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Polygon has a report out this afternoon sourcing data aggregator GitHyp, both of which are casting doubt on H1Z1's future viability as a game...

Elite Dangerous’ Beyond – Chapter One launches next week – here’s the trailer

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We're just a week away from the launch of Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One, that fascinating space abomination of colons and dashes! Frontier...

The Stream Team: Playing on Paladins’ test maps

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Did you know that you could queue up to play on Paladins' unfinished test maps? Massively OP's MJ has never tried this, so today...

Prosperous Universe liberally borrows from Facebook for one of its systems

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With so much going on while you attempt to manage your own space economic empire, you're going to need a little help to stay...

The Stream Team: A new day in Osiris: New Dawn

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It's been a while since Massively OP's MJ shared her adventures in the sci-fi survival sandbox Osiris: New Dawn. How is early access coming...
I have to be wasted for this.

Identity gameplay video demos your Breaking Bad fantasy

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The central tenant of Identity's concept is that this isn't going to be your run-of-the-mill combat MMO, but a life simulator that will let...

Shroud of the Avatar gives its shopkeepers a Victorian makeover

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One fact you may not know about Shroud of the Avatar is that it allows players to stock and operate their own virtual shopkeepers...
See, it's always dark and you need to have someone carrying a torch instead of fighting, and wait, come back.

Indie MMORPG Saga of Lucimia embraces gated content

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You should probably not be terribly surprised to hear that Saga of Lucimia, an upcoming MMO that is staking a claim on the hard-as-nails...

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....

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