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]

New Dawn heads to Kickstarter for financial support

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Stop us if you've heard this game concept before: You wake up on an island and have to survive the elements, your own hunger,...

Leaderboard: Did you participate in Crowfall’s equity crowdfunding raise?

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Finishing up today is Crowfall's Indiegogo-based equity crowdfunding campaign, one of the first games and MMORPGs to take advantage of new 2016 laws that...

Revelation Online has a buffet of PvP activities for CBT3

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When Revelation Online goes into its third closed beta test on January 19th, it will keep things spicy with a special focus on the...

Funcom stresses the importance of lore and mystery in Conan Exiles

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Conan lore is probably the most contentious thing about the franchise, and Funcom today has clarified the focus of that lore in Conan Exiles when...
Too soon? No.

TUG works on producing a ‘minimally viable product’

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Emerging from months of relative silence, Nerd Kingdom penned a short Kickstarter update about what's happening with the social sandbox world of TUG. It...

The Daily Grind: Will you give The Repopulation another chance?

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The after-hours Friday revelation that The Repopulation is relaunching early this year took a lot of our readers by surprise. The much-wanted sandbox MMORPG had...

The MOP Up: Black Desert loyalty rewards (January 15, 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...

Cops-and-robbers sandbox Identity on griefing, prison, customization, and more

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Identity is an open-world, cops-and-robbers sandbox, and it isn't asking you for money. That's because it was already Kickstarted to the tune of almost...

Make My MMO: The Repopulation’s new owner, Shards Online’s alpha (January 14, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Above & Beyond announced that Hero Engine company Idea Fabrik has acquired all rights to its indie sci-fi sandbox...

Camelot Unchained glues together beta build elements

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"Despite the East Coast winter plague, we’ve continued to make steady progress gluing together several of our core elements for Beta 1," Camelot Unchained's...

The Stream Team: Stepping back into a Shards alpha with Brinkmann

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It's that time again! It's time to dive back into another Shards Online alpha. Massively OP's MJ looks forward to these events so can...
How could this have failed? Oh, right, in every fashion.

Pathfinder Online in talks with anonymous ‘game agency’ for further development

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Saying that 2016 was a year of "exciting promises" and "disappointing letdowns" for Pathfinder Online, Goblinworks Acting CEO Lisa Stevens said that she's trying a...

The Stream Team: Pegomastax, ARK’s pesky pickpocket

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ARK has certainly gotten creative with its dinos. One of the recent additions is a crafty little thief that will literally pickpocket you, then...

The Repopulation will relaunch in Q1 2017, now owned by Idea Fabrik

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"Great News! The Repopulation is coming back!" -- or so said a hastily deleted tweet from Idea Fabrik last night, which you might have...
Let's make this happen.

Betawatch: Project Gorgon gears up with high-level content (January 13, 2017)

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Is it fair to call Project Gorgon a spiritual successor to Asheron's Call? I'm going to go with yes, which means that this year...
And this is why that's not a blobby mess!

Conan Exiles details custom servers, mods, and rulesets

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Funcom announced today that it's teamed up with web hosting service Pingperfect both to host Conan Exiles' official servers for Funcom and to offer...

Line of Defense solidifies engine switch, B2P business model

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Derek Smart's Line of Defense is expecting a new public build later this month, this one focused on the next phase of defense mechanics...

Chronicles of Elyria adds City of Heroes animator to the team

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Soulbound Studios has a new year's resolution for Chronicles of Elyria: "kick so much ass." "The next few months will see us preparing a playable...

Here’s how Star Citizen’s alien languages are being constructed from nothing

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"Don't waste your time learning Klingon, it ain't no use," Luna sang way back in 1996, but clearly, they had never met Britton Watkins,...
All right!

Nintendo Switch reveals include paid online service, Dragon Quest X MMO

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If you somehow missed the Twitter explosion last night, the full Nintendo Switch reveal happened, unloading a ton of details about the company's $300...

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