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]

Worlds Adrift responds to player PvP feedback

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Tuning PvP during a game's testing process has to be a thankless task, but the team at Worlds Adrift are up to the challenge....

PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe

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If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish....

Flameseeker Chronicles: Getting to grips with Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire mounts

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ArenaNet dedicated last week to all things mounts, so it stands to reason that I'd simply have to provide you with a run-down of...

Destiny 2 has begun its official console launch around the globe

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Destiny 2's console servers are beginning their staggered opening today, starting with our friends down under in Australia and New Zealand, where the clock's...

PAX West 2017: Watch the full Ashes of Creation panel

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This past weekend at PAX West, Ashes of Creation made sure to drop a few announcement bombs on its community that showed up to...

Funcom will still love Conan Exiles when the new baby is here

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Longtime Funcom watchers and MMORPG veterans already knew that Funcom was working on multiple games as part of its Conan franchise push, but some...

Daybreak wants H1Z1’s focus on fast-paced action to set it apart from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

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Matches in H1Z1: King of the Kill are about to get faster, according to Daybreak's latest roadmap for the game. "Our vision is for...

The Black Death looks back at history while Osiris: New Dawn releases the Architect update

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At this point, we are really starting to wonder if The Black Death is a history thesis that ran away from the student and...
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Dark and Light teases its ‘mysterious’ autumn update

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Giant cyclopes, mounted combat, and foreboding mountain climbs: What might Dark and Light have in mind for its first major content update? The details...
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Shroud of the Avatar rolls out R45, in spite of losing a week of work due to a software bug

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Shroud of the Avatar rolled out another release on Thursday, imbuing the game's 45th update with what it's calling a huge amount of work...

PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation documents its event showing

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We have to admit that after years of MMOs being downgraded on the exhibit floor of PAX, it's great to see some titles getting...

PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes’ demo trailer outlines testing for 2017 and 2018

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During the superhero MMO panel last night, Ship of Heroes' CEO, Casey McGeever, demoed the game in a new trailer that heralded several announcements...

PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation reveals December 15 alpha zero, Bear McCreary as composer

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During the Ashes of Creation panel at PAX West, Founder and Creative Director Steven Sharif announced the exact date of the upcoming Alpha...

The MOP Up: Warframe battles cancer (September 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...
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You’ll need a planetary astronomy degree to understand Fractured’s lore

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Earlier this summer, we first wrote about Fractured, yet another SpatialOS MMO currently under construction since this past January. If it's not on your radar...

Make My MMO: MMOTCG HEX is coming to PS4 (September 2, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, HEX announced it is officially coming to PS4 on September 9th under a hybrid HEX: Card Clash moniker, which...

Camelot Unchained designs beta siege battles

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It's not hard to imagine the Camelot Unchained fan as a curious and excitable prairie dog popping up whenever the word "beta" is mentioned....
Again, again.

Betawatch: Destiny 2 storms to PC (September 1, 2017)

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The open beta for Destiny 2 finally hit the PC, and while I'm generally reluctant to say that anything is the preferred platform for...

MMOARPG Wild Buster is selling founder packs on Indiegogo

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Massively OP's Justin Olivetti joked that it sounded like a game by Mad Libs, but Wild Buster is in fact a sci-fi hack-and-slash MMOARPG being ported westward...

Good trees, bad trees, and Crowfall’s siege testing

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Two of Crowfall's big tests are finally converging as one, bringing the limited siege test into the larger and more persistent campaign maps. So...

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