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]

MU Legend posts CBT2 teaser trailer, Valentine’s Day promo

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MU Legend, the latest entry in Webzen's MU series, has a brand-new teaser video out this week to promote its second global closed beta...

Watch devs play through the first 45 minutes of Hellion

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The Steam early access launch for space survival sandbox Hellion is right around the corner on February 24th, but you won't have to wait...
Leave your clothing on.

Revelation Online starts open beta on March 6

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Are you unwilling to pay for beta access but also desperately curious about playing Revelation Online? You won't have to wait much longer. The...

Shroud of the Avatar’s Kobolds are high-tech marvels

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Kobolds don't have the best reputation in most RPGs, usually taking the role of a low-level, non-threatening mob that you vaguely feel sorry for when...

The Stream Team: Would you love a Paladins Maeve? Watch and win!

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Would you love to play Paladins' Maeve? Well this week is all about love, and Massively OP's MJ has some codes for this brand-new...
Dinosnores.

ARK: Survival Evolved’s Jeremy Stieglitz on Scorched Earth and console launch

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ARK: Survival Evolved Co-Founder Jeremy Stieglitz has posted to Reddit an unreleased interview he did for Eurogamer, which apparently won't be published there. In it,...
TUG

What in the world happened to TUG?

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TUG, better known as The Untitled Game, burst onto the scene in May of 2013 with a Kickstarter, which didn't elicit the same groans...

The MOP Up: Free tanks for all! (February 12, 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...

Em8er steps gingerly across its fire and ice tiles

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Virtual landsapes are made up of thousands of tiles that are shaped and forged into landmarks and obstacles. The first steps to making Em8er's...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained, Mekria, TUG, and more (February 11, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowfunding was... well, it was a big week for gaming in general, and Kickstarted games rose to the challenge! In fact,...

Shards Online plans wipe, drops NDA ahead of impending Steam launch

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Shards Online's latest newsletter is homing in on the game's Steam launch. The game hit always-on alpha back in January, but now it's eyeing...

Valiance Online devs take the alpha client out for a test drive

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Early access is for chumps. If you really want to be in on the ground floor, you need to land yourself a spot on...

The Stream Team: ARK’s night is dark and full of dinos (to eat)

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Are you afraid of things that go bump in the night? You should be in ARK -- especially if that bump also bites! Unless,...
And this time, we mean it.

Betawatch: Albion Online prepares for Sir Galahad the Patchly (February 10, 2017)

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The extended beta for Albion Online gives the developers time to add more to the game. For example, when the Galahad patch goes live,...

The Stream Team: Conan Exiles’ killer crocs and ferocious fowl

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Considering anything in Conan Exiles to be harmless can be a fatal mistake, as Massively OP's MJ recently learned. What she thought was a...

Project Gorgon adds support for player-run challenges

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While Project Gorgon is not going to implement a permadeath mode any time soon, the team has put in some tools to allow players...

Cloud Pirates hits early access and adds convoy mode

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Hear ye, hear ye! Pirates are terrorizing the skies with the aid and comfort of ruthless players! So-called "early access" has ushered in an...

Star Citizen’s Around the Verse on the ship pipeline and ‘dead body tech’

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse episode heralds the game's 2.6.1 update, which has gone live for the hand-picked special test crew of...
Nast

Conan Exiles is bringing official servers back online, releases dev kit for modders

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Conan Exile's struggle to stay on top of the high demand for the survival sandbox and its troubles with shards continues, as Funcom announced...

The Stream Team: Checking out SMITE Tactics’ Chinese pantheon plus giveaway

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Massively OP's MJ got to peek into SMITE Tactics a bit during Hi-Rez Expo 2017, but she didn't really have time to dive in...

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