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]

Funcom is raising the price of Conan Exiles on console to $49.99

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Funcom has just announced to Conan Exiles players anxiously awaiting the game on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 that they'll be paying more than...
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Monster Hunter World’s first console beta event is slated for this weekend

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You have nothing to do but play video games this weekend, right? No crushing holiday shopping you should be getting a jump on? Great...
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Dauntless offers a video preview of its next major patch

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The next big update for Dauntless is going live this month, and there's a lot of stuff in it. A new weapon, two new...

Dark and Light opens master builder servers

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One neat thing about survival sandboxes is that they seem to embrace a wider variety of rulesets than we typically see in most MMORPGs....

The MOP Up: Pocket PUBG (December 3, 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 inches closer to beta one (December 2, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained's weekly progress report is on the shorter side (for CSE) given that the game's monthly newsletter just went...

Identity answers player questions, gives game overview

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A trio of Identity's developers sat down for an extended question-and-answer session about what's happening with the creation of this virtual life simulator. The...

The Stream Team: Speed building in Conan Exiles

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Usually, building in Conan Exiles is a long process. Much of that time goes to gathering the materials. Crafting itself may be the quickest...
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Betawatch: Star Citizen sells land… in space! (December 1, 2017)

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Selling spaceships that don't exist yet? That is so 2016. The new thing for Star Citizen is selling land that doesn't exist yet, which...

Citadel Forged With Fire’s free Forsaken Crypts expansion is live

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Should games that are still in early access release expansions? What if those expansions are free for those who own the base game? That's...

Star Citizen’s monthly studio report covers alpha 3.0 work, eyes Squadron 42

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What's Cloud Imperium been up to the last month? Oh nothing much, just frantically trying to prepare Star Citizen's alpha 3.0 to debut ahead...

Conan Exiles deals with bed bugs while bringing the Xbox and PC into parity

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After consuming the recent Conan Exiles newsletter, we are concerned that the Funcom team is succumbing to early winter madness over in Norway. At...

Survived By arrives on Steam as its closed alpha progresses

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The love child of bullet hell shooters and permadeath MMORPGs is now on Steam, and it's taking no prisoners. That's just not how it...

DayZ finally makes hard plans to leave early access and launch (beta) next year

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Remember like 50 million years ago when DayZ was young, Dean Hall was at the top of everybody's interview list, and nobody realized the...
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City of Titans shares details on creating its mission lines

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There's already a lot of lore floating around for City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPG City of Titans, but all of the lore in the world...

Shadow’s Kiss devs interview vampires as their Kickstarter nears finish line

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Even though it's looking more like Christmas than Halloween around these parts, Shadow's Kiss is taking its Kickstarter all the way to the bank....

Camelot Unchained hypes Saturday Night Sieges, promises big announcements next month

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Settle in, folks, because it's Camelot Unchained monthly newsletter day -- and that means plenty of good reading for those excited about this RvR...

Fortnite’s latest patch adds Xbox One X support, preps custom matchmaking

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This week's Fortnite update spreads love around for both the freebie battle royale mode and the paid PvE mode and now supports Xbox One...
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Chronicles of Elyria instigates a popularity contest over the last throne

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Just a friendly reminder that Chronicles of Elyria is still trying to raffle off one of its few remaining in-game thrones to the most...

Are rank-and-file devs benefiting from MMO publisher ‘money-grabs’? Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs weighs in

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Last week, Massively OP's Eliot Lefebvre wrote a (fantastic) Soapbox editorial arguing that Star Wars Battlefront II (and its concomitant monetization dust-up) is merely...

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