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]

Scale walls and cliffs with Conan Exiles’ climbing system

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That tall wall or cliff face that in other video games would represent an impassable barrier is nothing more than an adult-sized playground in...

E3 2017: State of Decay 2 targets spring 2018 launch

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Call it State of Delay 2. Players are going to have to wait a little bit longer to get their next hit of Undead Labs'...

E3 2017: Sea of Thieves delays release to early 2018

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While it should come as no shock that Sea of Thieves was going to fail to make its projected spring 2017 release window, especially...
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E3 2017: EA BioWare reveals Anthem, a shared-world Destiny clone

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Move over Destiny; BioWare is about to take a shot at your market share with its newly revealed Anthem. Anthem is a "shared-world action-RPG" in...

The MOP Up: EVE Valkyrie lowers its price point (June 11, 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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CD Projekt Red claims Cyberpunk 2077 design docs are being held hostage by thieves

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CD Projekt Red, the maker of the acclaimed Witcher RPG series, claimed that cyber thieves have made off with "internal files" and "early designs"...

Fairy Tail brings the popular anime series online this summer

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Is there nothing quite as thrilling and daunting as when your favorite IP is made into a video game? Fans of both the Japanese...

Make My MMO: Broke Protocol launches early access after failed Kickstarter (June 10, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Minecraft-meets-GTAO MMO Broke Protocol's Kickstarter ended unsuccessfully on Thursday, but the good news is that the game launched its early access...

Dual Universe on playtesting, the planetary map, and summer cons

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Kickstarted indie sci-fi sandbox Dual Universe has posted its monthly update this week with a meaty dev vlog from Novaquark's JC Baillie. Baillie says that...

Project Gorgon improves storage and guild systems

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One complaints that Project Gorgon testers have expressed during the alpha is that inventory and storage is both limiting and cluttered. The small dev...

The Stream Team: The need for speed (boats) in ARK

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With the last big content update all patched into ARK, there are a few interesting goodies for Massively OP's MJ to check out. Besides...

Camelot Unchained is chasing ‘a game to be proud of, not a minimum viable product’

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Is beta one here yet? Nooooope. But Camelot Unchained continues barreling down the track toward it, as outlined in its latest weekly update. City State's...
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Betawatch: Secret World Legends opens the beta doors (June 9, 2017)

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If you're an active player of The Secret World, you can get into the Secret World Legends beta at this point. Really, you can!...

The Stream Team: A peek at Path of Exile’s The Fall of Oriath beta

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Massively OP's MJ spent time in the alpha of Path of Exile's upcoming The Fall of Oriath expansion, and she's just been waiting for...

Secret World Legends offers up ‘deep dive’ on weapons

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After a week or so of teasing the different weapon specialties on Twitter for Secret World Legends, the crew at Funcom has finally released...

Star Citizen Around the Verse: Manchester’s work on 3.0 and ship migration progress

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This week's Around the Verse has arrived for Star Citizen fans, helmed by both Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner. This episode has a crapton...

Marvel Heroes Omega launches on Xbox One, PS4 on June 30

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Xbox One players, you're about to get a crack at playing Marvel Heroes on your platform of choice. Gazillion has just announced that Marvel...

Dark and Light opens beta signups, posts new trailer

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Snail Games hasn't officially confirmed rumors from earlier this week that its revivified MMORPG sandbox Dark and Light is launching alongside the Steam summer...

All Secret World players can get into the Secret World Legends beta as of today

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After announcing a surprise headstart for Secret World Legends yesterday, Funcom dropped a second Twitter bomb by informing all current Secret World players that...

Multiplayer sandbox Astroneer publishes development roadmap, teases themed spacesuits

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If No Man's Sky didn't exactly scratch your itch for multiplayer interplanetary exploration, mining, and crafting, then Astroneer is suiting up right now to...

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