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]

Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter is live, seeking $750,000 to bolster the ‘rebirth of the MMORPG’

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"If necessary, I have made some very good friends in my previous business endeavors who are dying to invest." -Steven Sharif, Massively OP interview,...

Enter to win a copy of Guardians of Ember courtesy of InselGames and Massively OP

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In honor of upgraded US servers for Guardians of Ember  as well as the launch of Act V, InselGames has granted us 50 Steam keys for copies...
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Chronicles of Elyria gives extra goodies to its Kickstarter backers

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Did you help to fund Chronicles of Elyria when it ran its Kickstarter campaign almost a year ago? The team at Soulbound Studios would...

The MOP Up: Warface meets Crysis (April 30, 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...

H1Z1: King of the Kill gets new content, Just Survive gets bug fixes and concept art

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Fresh off its TV e-sports debut, H1Z1's King of the Kill branch is on the verge of an update that's expected to optimize its...

Make My MMO: Crowfall adds geomancy and architecture skills (April 29, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Crowfall canceled its weekend playtest, but not before issuing a dev blog updating the community on some of the crafting changes...

The Stream Team: Dragons and werehyenas in Conan Exiles

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Conan Exiles has plenty of dangers lurking about ready to end players' lives. Massively OP's MJ has certainly encountered her fair share. Now, she...

Camelot Unchained’s Seattle studio finally has an office

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Remember last June when Camelot Unchained startled everyone by announcing it was opening a second studio in Seattle? The team out west has been...

The Stream Team: Preparing for ARK’s active volcano

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Another big change is coming to ARK: a live volcano! Devs have recently added special markers to show what will be changing. Unfortunately for...
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Betawatch: Pantheon has a class that’s too cool for you (April 28, 2017)

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Remember when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen bombed pretty badly on Kickstarter? The good news for fans is that the day when that happened...

Hover sparks a cel-shaded parkour revolution

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That meanie oppressive future government! Always keeping the people under its foot and draining every penny from the masses for its insatiable neon budget!...

PSA: The Culling is free to try this weekend

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Brutal deathmatch arena game The Culling has temporarily reduced the financial barrier to entry, allowing anyone to try it out for free this weekend. From...
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Chronicles of Elyria answers player questions in a two-hour video

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The Chronicles of Elyria team hosted a public community Q&A session, and players had questions. And those questions... well, they were answered. Extensively. The...

The Stream Team: Ranger danger in Osiris New Dawn

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Osiris: New Dawn just launched its new patch, and Massively OP's MJ is diving into a brand-new world to play the new Ranger class....

The Repopulation updates graphic shaders, QA pipeline ahead of May update

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How's The Repopulation coming along? Well, it's coming. Last week, the newly installed Idea Fabrik developers discussed how the planned May update is progressing with...

See the Sea of Thieves devs become tourists in their own game

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Just because you make a game doesn't mean that you are an automatic expert in it. In the latest Sea of Thieves developer gameplay...
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City of Titans lets you call the shots with your powers

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Are you ready to handle the awesome responsibility of being able to make your own powers? City of Titans thinks so, which is why...

‘This universe is going to be awesome’: Chris Roberts on Star Citizen’s evolving moons

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On this week's Around the Verse, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner bookend two key segments. The first is a studio update with...

Pantheon shows the class you’ll never be allowed to play

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There was a lot of buzz swirling about Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's hour-and-a-half developer livestream yesterday, thanks to a truckload of information shared...

Dark and Light explains its item-based magic system

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How do you merge a survival sandbox game with a magic system? This is the challenge that Dark and Light's team has been grappling...

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