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]

Here’s what you missed from last weekend’s Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2017

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While it surely won't comfort anyone angrily counting down the days until alpha 3.0's eventual release to all backers, Star Citizen's CitizenCon 2017 delivered an...

Pantheon’s social systems aren’t ‘simply bringing back the past’

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One of the most interesting things to cover when it comes to Pantheon's development has been its reconciliation of two superficially opposing ideas for...

Chronicles of Elyria raffles off a throne, retools community event to avoid exploits

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Strange things are afoot in Chronicles of Elyria. For starters, there is a single throne available on a North American server that's up for...

The MOP Up: Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet announced (October 29, 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...

AdventureQuest 3D overhauls classes and combat

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Not content with the current state of the world, AdventureQuest 3D pushed out a patch this week that overhauled its classes and combat --...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s procedural cities, Camelot Unchained’s beta tester rewards (October 28, 2017)

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Ever wanted to walk around on Coruscant? Star Citizen may be granting your wish, or at least a solid approximation. During this weekend's CitizenCon,...
Probably the smart move.

Betawatch: The week the betas died (October 27, 2017)

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This week should serve as a helpful reminder that just because a game is in testing does not mean that it's actually primed for...

Daybreak on H1Z1 and Just Survive: ‘It’s best to consider each game as a separate entity moving forward’

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Gotta stop teasing Daybreak for a month: Just Survive, the actual zombie sandbox half of the H1Z1 salmagundi, is getting love. The latest patch...
It looks much better now.

City of Titans shows off animation blending in action

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We can't really show you animation blending in the header because we tend not to use animated pictures in our headers due to resource...

Mobile MMO roundup: ArcheAge Begins, Paladins Strike, MU Origin, and Vendetta Online

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Welcome back to another quick tour through the very latest in mobile MMORPG news. Let's begin at the beginning with... ArcheAge Begins Yep, the GAMEVIL-produced mobile spinoff...

Chronicles of Elyria on a la carte prices, skins, and this weekend’s convention game

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Looking to just buy your way into an exclusive alpha program? Want to put your name on a star or tombstone? Thinking about adopting...

Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre

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I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...

Buy a new Intel Optane SSD, get a Star Citizen pixelship

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As part of its CitizenCon 2017 reveals this morning - or this afternoon, if you're local to Frankfurt, where the event is taking place...
what

Sea of Thieves technical alpha update: small ships, brigs, and text chat

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There's never enough grog when you're trying to wrap your head around the fast-changing events of the world. Fortunately, Sea of Thieves has a...

Watch Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2017 here, plus check out alpha progress in Around the Verse

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In this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, the team says it's gotten its must-fix bug list down from 20 to 16...
Broken

Amazon confirms that Breakaway is on hiatus

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Is Breakaway dead? We don't know for sure, but the rumors started flying yesterday, and the latest official word certainly reads like a death...

Survival sandbox ROKH got bogged down in a ‘legal dispute,’ but it’s been resolved

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It's been a few weeks since ROKH's last developer update, but there's a reason for that: a legal dispute. "Two teams were investigating the source...
My wooden fort.

Rend is changing up its base system to offer more personal ownership

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Your home base in Rend is important; defending it is one of the central parts of the game, after all. However, the structure of...

Sea of Thieves’ crew meets for a raucous parley

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For the most part, Sea of Thieves has delivered a stream of short, bite-sized videos to show off various aspects of the pirate game...

Spacetime Studios’ Pocket Legends Adventures has soft launched into open beta

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Earlier this fall, we learned that Spacetime Studios was working on a new mobile MMO: It's called Pocket Legends Adventures, an "homage" to what Spacetime says...

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