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]

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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...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s roadmap, Elite Dangerous’ Commanders, and Starfighter’s successful Kickstarter (April 15, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's been a battle of the space MMOs. Elite: Dangerous rolled out its Commanders 2.3 update, introducing what our own...

Camelot Unchained takes aim at eliminating zone loading screens

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Live it up while you still can, zone loading screens, because Camelot Unchained has its mind to wipe you off the map. In this week's...

The Stream Team: A hippity hoppity Easter in ARK

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If there are unicorns in ARK, why can't there be Easter Bunnies? Even if Studio WildCard doesn't roll out a holiday event this weekend...

A trimmed-down Star Citizen 3.0 alpha is coming this summer

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You can stop fidgeting about what might or might not arrive in Star Citizen this year: Cloud Imperium has released its promised development roadmap...

The Stream Team: Raiding the pirate ship in Conan Exiles

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OK, so maybe the deserts of Conan Exiles don't really have a pirate ship, but there is an area filled filled with what amounts...
Skysagalanders.

Betawatch: SkySaga’s alpha is coming to a happy end (April 14, 2017)

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It's very rare that this job allows us to use the terms "shutdown" and "good" in the same sentence, but the upcoming alpha shutdown...

Hellion wants its systems to be breaking down more

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Hellion has a systems problem, in that its in-game systems are just too darn functional and well-maintained. That would be terrific news if you...

Osiris: New Dawn’s April patch boasts level design, melee, and dungeon improvements

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Survival sandbox Osiris: New Dawn has a new dev post and video out this week discussing just what is coming in its "massive" next...
Are you going to make me pay for all those jokes about being in space?

Shroud of the Avatar shifts its focus to creating a better starting experience

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If you've picked up and played Shroud of the Avatar in early access over the past year or so, you'll undoubtedly have noticed that...

Rend’s mix-and-match class system is deeper than it appears

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Start small, grow wide: This is the class philosophy in the upcoming survival sandbox Rend. While there are only four classes in the game,...
Well, all right, then.

Sea of Thieves’ technical alpha is up to 39k testers, but PC crowd is still waiting to be invited

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As Sea of Thieves sails across the choppy waters of its technical alpha tests, the team makes a point to occasionally descending the rigging...
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This is your life now in Life is Feudal

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The MMO side of "harshly realistic, socially focused, medieval life simulation" Life is Feudal has a fresh trailer this week that's intended to outline...

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