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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Tera M is not friendly to free players in its Korean version

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Eager to have all of the gameplay of TERA in the palm of your hand with TERA M? You might want to be a...

Crowfall studio ArtCraft just raised another $6M from investors to launch the game

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Lest you be dispirited by the fact that Crowfall's soft launch isn't going to make 2017 as promised (after also not making 2016), ArtCraft...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds teases its desert map, eyes post-launch cosmetics

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Still find yourself dizzy with disbelief about how the most awkwardly titled video game ever became 2017's biggest hit? Check out Polygon's rundown of...

Conan Exiles might have to cut some PC features for launch

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This week's Conan Exiles newsletter covers some of the changes coming to the PC version (a plant-harvesting sickle!) and hints that the team might...

Wild West Online seems to be dropping FFA PvP in favor of faction-based PvP

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Still bummed out about Wild West Online's delay to 2018? Wait until you see the game's latest dev blog! 612 Games doesn't mention the...

Crowfall: ‘You don’t have to get into the stats to have a good time in this game’

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Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Billy Garretsen are back for another ACE Q&A - you can pretty much mark the months by these things....

Eleven boots up a Glitch wiki to crowdsource info

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As Glitch fan remake Eleven reemerges on the scene with more alpha developments, the team has a plea that it is making to the...

Dragon’s Prophet sequel Savage Hunt is supposed to launch tomorrow

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While Dragon's Prophet took a stiff nosedive in North America and was ultimately shuttered by Daybreak in 2015, the dragon taming MMO didn't die...

Saga of Lucimia lays the foundation for a holiday alpha test

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Forget cookies with Santa and New Year countdowns: Saga of Lucimia hopes that you'll be too immersed in its next alpha test to care...

Wild West Online’s early access has been delayed into next year

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In a move that will shock nobody who's played the game, watched the game being played, or followed the multiple delays suffered by the game...

Shadow’s Kiss ends Kickstarter with 300% funding and several stretch goals

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Expect some vampires to be popping bottles of the red bubbly today. The team behind Shadow's Kiss is celebrating the conclusion a modestly successful Kickstarter...

Survive the Nights brings back classic fort-building survival

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Can we make an agreement right now, you and I? That if the world ends because of a zombie uprising, maybe we can work...
Never forget.

Project Gorgon releases an experimental launcher for Linux

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There has never been an idea so offbeat and weird that the Project Gorgon team will not give it a shot. That does not...

Shroud of the Avatar’s newest mine borrows from Greek mythology

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If you fall into the trap of thinking of every fantasy mine as a dark cavern full of Temple of Doom-style trolley tracks, then...

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...
You don't need to look at other things, right?

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...

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