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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Sea of Thieves talks about its technical alpha

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Sea of Thieves is revving up both its testing and communication after some downtime during the holidays. As such, the team is back for...

Daybreak: ‘We have not given up’ on H1Z1’s console launch

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Daybreak has posted up an H1Z1: King of the Kill Q&A last night that sheds some light on the state of the game, in one...
Die, die, die!

Crowfall details the mechanics of death, resurrection, and swapping characters

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You will die while playing Crowfall. That's pretty much inevitable. But you will also never die in Crowfall, because you are not your character;...
Not the only way you get around.

Revelation Online details the many ways to travel the world

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There's a bit of a problem with Revelation Online when it comes to transportation. You get wings, you see, and that begs the question...
OW MY SPINE

Revelation Online introduces future players to Akuta

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Look, over there! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the main character an anime that you'd stop watching two episodes in! It's Akuta,...

Project Genom on early access dev progress and the ‘Google tax’

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Sci-fi MMO Project Genom's latest dev post says studio NeuronHaze is "totally wrapped up" in development and apologizes for its lack of a timeline,...
Bye, no one will weep.

Jesper Kyd scores MU Legend — and you can listen to some of it now

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Webzen has brought on board a heavy-hitter to compose the soundtrack for its upcoming MU Legend. The studio announced that it tapped Jesper Kyd to...
Fall like leaves! ...in... fall.

Ashes of Creation details the progress of seasons

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The environment in Ashes of Creation is meant to change around you. The most basic level of this, as detailed in the most recent...

Dogma: Eternal Night adds starting apartment, functional UI and chat

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Vampire MMO themepark Dogma: Eternal Night has an update for alpha testers. "Until recently, players could only play around in the character editor," says...

Snail Games tries its hand at a zombie MMO with Moonlights

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Slow or fast, zombies never stop coming at you, and zombie games are much the same. Snail Games is making an attempt to join...

Shroud of the Avatar: New outfits, new zones, and charity aid

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter begins with a bang, at least if you're a fan of costumes. Portalarium is showing off both clockwork...
What the me.

Hellion delays Early Access launch until February

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PvP-based survival sandbox Hellion has been taking aim at a January Early Access launch for quite some time now, but it looks as if...

Project Gorgon patches in high-level content

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Project Gorgon has Orcs on the mind this week. No, playable Orcs aren't in the game yet, but their homeland is, as Gorgon patched...

Star Citizen aims for a mid-February patch

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If you are not satisfied with being aware of a game at its broadest, highest-level perspective during development, you might be keen instead to...
ahhhhh tentacles ahhhhh

These are the gods overseeing your fate in Conan Exiles

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With just one week to go before its early access launch, Conan Exiles wants you to get spiritual. Specifically, Funcom's released a dev blog...

The MOP Up: No Man’s Sky gets shielded (January 22, 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...

Legends of Gaia dares you to figure out what it is

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Part of the job of writing for Massively OP is encountering new games and trying to get a handle on what they are so...

Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s new shop, Crowfall’s investor tally (January 21, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon opened up a brand-new web store. "Currently, we are listing four crowdfunding packages from our prior...

A peek at Camelot Unchained’s trees, forests, and C.U.B.E.

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"Today's update might be a little lighter on the tech side," Mark Jacobs tells Camelot Unchained backers in his latest update, "but we have...

The Stream Team: Watch and win Revelation Online beta access

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Does Massively OP's MJ like to give things away? Yes she does! And today she gets to give away a bunch more beta codes...

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