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 sets its sights on crowdfunding stretch goals

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After smashing expectations by completely funding its $750,000 Kickstarter campaign in the first 12 hours, Ashes of Creation wants to keep this crowdfunding momentum going...

The Elder Scrolls Online honors 15 years of Morrowind with a new trailer

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Fifteen years ago this week, I was sitting down to play Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for the first time, I'm guessing like many of...
Llook out, Llary! It's the llandlllord!

Rumor: Guild Wars 2 leak reveals expansion masteries, locations

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New images suggesting sweeping changes coming in Guild Wars 2's next expansion have been released into the wilds of Reddit. As usual, we’ll be tucking...

The Daily Grind: Are you Kickstarting Ashes of Creation?

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Well, congrats, Ashes of Creation. You did it: You made your $750,000 Kickstarter goal in less than 24 hours, which means we're going to...

Tale of Toast’s cute aesthetics hide old-school challenge

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Don't judge a book by its cover, they say, and certainly don't go making assumptions about the difficulty levels of MMORPGs by how gritty...

How Shroud of the Avatar’s night sky impacts gameplay

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Other than for providing an atmospheric backdrop to night questing, starry skyboxes in MMOs don't really mean or do much. This is not the...

Massively OP Interview: Ashes of Creation on a new way to MMO

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Today, Ashes of Creation takes a big plunge into an all-or-nothing Kickstarter campaign. Over the past few months, the MMO seemed to come out...

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...