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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OrbusVR starts early access on December 15th with no more wipes

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That headline is a bit of a misnomer; everyone who hasn't already purchased OrbusVR will have to wait until December 15th for early access,...

Ship of Heroes recaps 2017, teases Christmas event, and looks ahead to 2018’s beta

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Who says you have to have launched to have holiday events? Not Ship of Heroes. The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG has a...

Hands-on with Monster Hunter World’s weekend beta – and how it compares to Dauntless

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I won't lie: The Monster Hunter World beta on console last weekend isn't going to give you the best sense of the full monster hunting experience. It...
Let's assume the dude on the righ represents ''the west'' here.

Moonlight Blade will finally hit open beta in Korea in January

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Doesn't it seem as if we've been watching Tencent's wuxia MMO Moonlight Blade for half of forever? Keep watching, but maybe watch a little...
Someone wanted this, maybe.

TERA starts its technical console test on December 14

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So, why haven't we gotten a lot of news about the TERA console version? Product manager Matt Denomme has put forth a new video...

Life is Feudal: MMO counts ‘tens of thousands’ of players in open beta

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So how's the Life is Feudal MMO doing since it hit open beta a few weeks ago? The login issues and emergency game wipe...

Worlds Adrift’s 0.1.5 update is almost ready, but the world wipe won’t come ’til after Christmas

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Bossa Studios revealed today that Worlds Adrift's 0.1.6 patch - and its associated world wipe - won't make it into tester hands by Christmas....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tweaks female model’s creepy underwear

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So how detailed do the dude-parts and lady-parts in your online games that are ostensibly about murdering each other really need to be? Apparently not...
Don't be a dick, be a dude.

Sword Coast Legends ends development – grab it from Steam while you can

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Better buy Sword Coast Legends while you still can: It appears that Wizards of the Coast and Digital Extremes will be ending the publishing...

Conan Exiles formally launches on May 8th, 2018, for PC, Xbox One, and PS4

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Conan Exiles needed some good news this month, and it's getting just that. "Funcom today announced that Conan Exiles, the studio’s open-world survival game set...

LOTRO delays raid rollout while Middle-earth card game is announced for PC

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It's a not-so-happy patch day for Lord of the Rings Online. The studio said that it won't be activating the new raid with the...

The MOP Up: Heroes of the Storm mains Hanzo (December 10, 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...

Camelot Unchained fleshes out books, clothes, and the new Dragonfang scenario

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They aren't dressing it up with "burndown" hoopla, but City State Entertainment's devs are in just that kind of check-it-off testing mode with Camelot...

Dragon of Legends starts Steam early access testing next week

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It has been a long, long while in the coming, but gorgeous pixelart RPG Dragon of Legends is finally coming to the public stage...
Nope.

Betawatch: There’s factions in them there hills of Wild West Online (December 8, 2017)

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Let's start with something that you probably already ascertained: Wild West Online is being delayed. It delayed its early access alpha, and that delay...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

PUBG makes Aussie players geocache for lootcrates this weekend

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Dammit Australia. As if buying lockboxes in video games isn't bad enough, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds means to make you chase them in real life. Apparently, Xbox...

Who does Star Citizen love now? HOVERBIKES!

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Is Star Citizen alpha 3.0 going to make it past the PTU testers to the live server by Christmas? It's looking pretty tight. According...

H1Z1 will be called King of Survival when Tencent ports it to China

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This week's rumor that Tencent may be porting Daybreak's H1Z1 eastward has proven true, as the Chinese megacorp and Daybreak announced late last night...

Sea of Thieves announces March launch date for PC and Xbox One

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Well this is a bit of welcome news before the year rounds out! Rare finally announced a launch date for Sea of Thieves: March...
Everyone shoots everyone else!

Fortnite is getting a new large-scale battle royale mode

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Over the past weekend, Fortnite managed to hit a peak of 1.3 million concurrent users and 30M total users. That's a lot of people....

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