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]

Chronicles of Elyria forecasts mud and snow, takes fans on a run through a mine

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Big talk and intriguing ideas continue over at Chronicles of Elyria, where the team is giving players a vision of what the MMO's weather...
So long.

The Exiled goes free-to-play for its third season

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The Exiled, the PvP MMO formerly known as Das Tal, is making some business model changes. When it launched into early access back in February,...

OrbusVR’s alpha begins tomorrow, includes instanced player housing prototype

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Indie VR sandbox OrbusVR is whooshing along toward the start of its closed alpha tomorrow, available to Kickstarter backers (it raised $34,000 in its...

Korean studio Move Games resurrects ASTA on Steam

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When I mentioned in our newsroom that I was working on an ASTA post, nobody believed me, but it's true: ASTA: The War of...

Enter to win a Neverwinter unicorn mount on Xbox One and PS4 from PWE and MOP

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To celebrate last week's arrival of the Cloaked Ascendancy expansion for Neverwinter on console, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 unicorn mount keys to give away to our readers-- 25 apiece for PlayStation...

Rend’s environments get tougher and more amazing as you progress

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What's your favorite video game zone? Green hill zone? Marble zone? Aqua lake zone? When Rend comes out, players will find that zone biomes are...

The Stream Team: Beating the dungeon boss in Conan Exiles

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Facing new foes is always a learning experience, and Massively OP's MJ and the group learned quite a bit the first time they took...

Absolver offers multiplayer melee action, now in open beta form

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Ever fancy yourself the wanderer type, fated to roam the lands while righting wrongs and becoming a legend in your own right? A new...

Crowfall has big changes in store for its alpha UI

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An MMORPG with a crappy user interface doesn't last long in 2017. ArtCraft has this lesson memorized and has put it to good use...

Marvel Heroes’ console version will include local co-op, beta begins Friday

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Add this to the list of cool stuff for console that PC players are unlikely to see: Marvel Heroes Omega is getting a local...

H1Z1: King of the Kill preps pre-season 4 and televised e-sports debut

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H1Z1: King of the Kill, that zombie sandbox you love to hate but apparently just can't quit, is preparing pre-season 4. The main thing...
But the same old story.

Amazon job posting reveals New World details

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A job listing for a player relations specialist may be inadvertently giving us a glimpse of a few details concerning Amazon's upcoming New World MMORPG. Tucked...
Alive again!

Diablo III temporarily removes the Necromancer from testing

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And lo, it did pass that a select group of players of Diablo III were invited to test the Necromancer in the beta version...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon runs down its pre-launch checklist

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With less than a month to go before flipping on the switch to its live servers, the Darkfall: Rise of Agon team must be...

Valiance Online on alpha, Steam, and the character generator of your dreams

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Expect "big changes" in the way Silverhelm Studios handles superhero MMORPG Valiance Online's development going forward, the indie group tells future players and testers in...

Overwatch’s Genji and Hanamura map leap into Heroes of the Storm

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A fourth Overwatch toon is coming to Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard revealed today: The assassin Genji will join Lucio, Tracer, and Zarya in...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Morrowind closed beta test has begun

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Get your "It's happening!!!" gifs ready: ZeniMax announced this morning that the invites for The Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind beta are riding out on...

Star Citizen’s 3.0 to ‘simulate a first-person universe with almost no limits’

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As Star Citizen players are still grappling with the recently revealed development schedule, Chris Roberts has swooped in to provide some context and explanation...

‘Single-player MMO’ Tanzia coming to early access this month

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Cast your mind back to February, during which we introduced you to a single-player RPG called Tanzia that was structured eerily similar to an...

The MOP Up: Overwatch gives smurfing a pass (April 16, 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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