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]

This exclusive ArcheAge Revelation art Q&A covers dwarves, mythology, and beer

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Last week, Trion revealed that the western version of ArcheAge will soon get the 3.0 Revelation update first announced for Korea last summer. The massive update...

How Sea of Thieves is hand-crafting a believable world

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Don't call it a "living world" -- that's taken -- but Sea of Thieves has its own design vision for what it's calling a...

The Exiled has a huge revamp in store for its final alpha next month

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The Exiled (the MMO-MOBA hybrid formerly known as Das Tal) is fast approaching its final alpha test, now expected to run for most of...

You can pre-download Revelation Online for tomorrow’s closed beta

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Tomorrow is a day that Revelation Online fans have been panting for: the start of the game's first closed beta test in the west....
Civilization Online

Civilization (Online) is coming to an end

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Remember all the grumbling when XLGames revealed Civilization Online at a big presser in New York and then told us it was launching in...
Star Citizen

Star Citizen backer flips pixel ships to buy an actual car

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Vice posted a cute piece over the weekend by Star Citizen player who explains how he used the old "one red paperclip" trick plus basic...
Suit up.

Crowfall breaks $3 million in crowdfunding

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Crowfall has a lot to cheer about this morning: ArtCraft Entertainment just announced that it has "amassed more than $3 million in crowdfunding to bring...
Hit me.

Gigantic makes a big deal out of its upcoming closed beta weekend

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Gigantic is keeping up the pressure with its testing cycle, as it has its second closed beta weekend starting on Thursday, November 3rd. While we...

Sea of Thieves team talks alpha tests and game audio

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The pirates at Rare have taken to the lower galley to sit around and record another hour-long podcast covering all sorts of topics for...

AQ3D level-locks epic dungeons, compensates for Halloween bug

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Newly betaing AdventureQuest 3D has decided to place level-locks on some of its dungeon content, a new post on the official site declares this...

Smed’s Hero’s Song enters alpha 3 for backers

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Hero's Song's alpha 3 kicked off yesterday as promised during its Indiegogo campaign, opening up to early backers. "We've automatically upgraded everyone who did not...

Sandbox Project Gorgon launches Indiegogo for additional funding

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Elder Game's Eric Heimburg and Sandra Powers have today posted a new Indiegogo campaign for the in-development alpha indie sandbox MMORPG Project Gorgon with...
Sneak and stab.

Revelation Online’s Chinese version adds the stealthy Assassin

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Those of us here in the US have to wait a little bit longer for Revelation Online to start in on beta testing, but...

Take a peek at multiplayer space survival sandbox Hellion

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First announced for Steam Greenlight back in April and debuted at this past Gamescom, Zero Gravity Games' "sandbox action multiplayer space survival game" Hellion...

Camelot Unchained wants to ‘find the fun’ in all aspects of its design

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School is in session, and the Camelot Unchained team is here to teach you a few things about MMORPG design. In the game's most...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon cuts the grind, makes weapon and racial improvements

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Is Rise of Agon the Darkfall you've been dreaming of? If you were turned off by excessive grind and the pace of leveling of the...

ARK: Survival Evolved abandons most of its planned Halloween update

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ARK: Survival Evolved's Fear Evolved 2 Halloween event arrived over the weekend, but it wasn't entirely to plan. Early in October, Studio Wildcard teased...

Bless Online releases English trailer, promising 2017 launch

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Bless Source has got its mitts on a new English language Bless Online trailer promising the game's "coming 2017 with a completely overhauled action combat...

City of Titans puts on costumes for Halloween

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Just in time for the most costume-friendly holiday of the year, Missing Worlds Media has a new video and post to show off some...

The MOP Up: FFXI revs up appreciation campaigns (October 30, 2016)

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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...

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