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]

Take home a Hand of the Gods Medusa key in honor of the console closed beta launch

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Hi-Rez's turn-based strategy card game Hand of the Gods -- you might recall it better as SMITE Tactics or even its internal name, Hotgods...

Ashes of Creation is hosting a virtual costume ball for Halloween

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Can a game that isn't even in alpha yet have a Halloween celebration? Heck yes it can, Intrepid Studios says, and it has one...
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No, Squadron 42 isn’t going to release this year

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All right, let's be honest, you probably didn't actually think that Star Citizen's much-delayed single-player Squadron 42 was coming out this year. Around this...

Shroud of the Avatar sells toilets and wheelchairs for charity

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While it still continues on that long road to launch, Shroud of the Avatar is using some of its development time and resources to...
But at least you never compromised.

Chronicles of Elyria picks up former Revival lead developer

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Has enough time gone by to start erasing memories of Revival, that ambitious but troubled horror MMO that was canceled back in March 2016?...

CD Projekt Red confirms that Cyberpunk 2077 is still being made and ‘progressing as planned’

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Considering the sparse information that has been released about CD Projekt Red's perhaps-an-MMO Cyberpunk 2077 over the last four years, it's easy to assume...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops 2.3M concurrency, bans a fraction of that

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Here's a fun game that we play around the Massively OP office: A troublemaker will come in and loudly proclaim, "You know what's a...

Ship of Heroes reveals its Lightning Blast powerset with a new video

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It's sacrilege to say it, I'm sure, but I never loved lightning powers in City of Heroes - lightning wasn't much of a damage...

H1Z1 has defeated its ‘King of the Kill’ branding in a last-man-standing battle royale

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Looks like at least some of the rumors last week have proven true, as Daybreak is indeed removing the "King of the Kill" branding from...

The MOP Up: Speedrunning World of Warcraft (October 15, 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...

MMOs you’ve never heard of: Immortal Thrones, Identity, and Lordmancer II

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Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down three of them. Immortal Thrones First up...

Fortnite teases Halloween event, lists development projects in the works

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The development train for Fortnite isn't slowing down, with the studio posting a long list of projects that its teams are currently tackling. For...

Halloween events in Path of Exile, Master X Master, RIFT, EverQuest, Ultima Online, and AQ3D

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It's almost a full-time job to stay on top of all of the MMO and MOBA Halloween events popping up all over the place!...

Camelot Unchained builds boats for beta

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A diverse smattering of projects kept the Camelot Unchained team busy this past week, per the game's newsletter report. It sounds as though players...
Nope.

Betawatch: Wild West Online’s alpha just isn’t ready (October 13, 2017)

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It's not high noon in Wild West Online. It's not any time at all, in fact. The game's early access alpha would have established...

Citadel: Forged With Fire goes on sale, reduces marble building costs

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If you've been eyeing Citadel: Forged With Fire but have held out so far in the hopes of a good deal, now might be...

Destiny 2 vows not to delay Prestige raid further despite existing exploit

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So here is an interesting conundrum: Say you have a highly anticipated raid in the works that you've already delayed. Now that the new...

Dark and Light encourages you to beat up goblins for sweet, sweet candy

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Back in September, Massively OP went deep undercover to bring players a shocking exposé on how Dark and Light subtly conditions players to become...

Sea of Thieves fights the negative stigmas of multiplayer gaming

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Hopefully if you're reading Massively OP, you're not the type of player who holds a grudge against multiplayer games. For those who do, however,...

Pantheon’s halflings are more like Peter Pan’s Lost Boys than Tolkien’s hobbits

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The MOP team tricked me into taking this post. They promised me gnomes. They aren't gnomes at all. They're halflings! We're talking, of course, about...

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