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]

The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XI expands its wardrobe (July 3, 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...

Darkfall: New Dawn launches its public InDev server

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One of the two Darkfall reboots has sort of won the race to release, as New Dawn announced this past week that it has...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s newsletter, SOTA’s $9M funding (July 2, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained released its latest newsletter (at just under 8000 words, if you were curious - it's tradition...
Ride or... just ride, actually.

Betawatch: Riders of Icarus moves into head start (July 1, 2016)

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Riders of Icarus has not launched yet; it's in head start. Yes, head start before open beta, rather than before, like, launch or something....

ARK championships rage on this weekend

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This is the weekend that Americans will get out their grills, shoot off some fireworks, and celebrate their independence from the tyranny of dinosaurs....

The newest ECO patch adds food, buildings, and power

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ECO's alpha 4 update is now live, and boy is it a major patch for the upcoming sandbox. Several major systems have been added...
Opposition.

WoW Factor: The hope I have for Legion

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Every week, in Final Fantasy XI, the three main player nations are competing in a form of passive PvP known as conquest. The nation...

Star Citizen’s 100th Around the Verse highlights the female avatar

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The 100th episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse landed last night, kicked off by some incredible in-game dogfighting footage from a fan. The...

The Stream Team: Digging into Riders of Icarus’ cash shop

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The beta doors of Riders of Icarus won't swing open for everyone until next week, but MassivelyOP's MJ is heading in to the headstart....

Shroud of the Avatar releases final pre-wipe patch

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It's almost the end of an era for Shroud of the Avatar, as the game is facing down its final wipe prior to next...

Albion Online prepares for its final beta test phase

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The end of the world is just the beginning, at least according to several movie poster taglines that we've read. And as the sun...

Revelation Online’s fly-through video is breathtaking

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Revelation Online has a gorgeous new fly-through video out this morning. Clocking in at over five minutes long, the trailer is (almost) one long...

Crowfall’s resource harvesting design plus a timeline of Monday’s stream

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Crowfall's art team has a new video out this week discussing the design of harvesting. The video covers the distinctive design of nodes (which...

Riders of Icarus kicks off head start, has loads of content in the works for open beta and beyond

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Today marks the start of Riders of Icarus' head start, provided that you were one of the players who bought into it. For the rest...

NBA champion Rick Fox partners with Daybreak’s H1Z1 for e-sport initiative

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Multitime NBA champion Rick Fox has his sights set on H1Z1 as the next big e-sports field, so much so that he has partnered up...

European MMO hybrid Crush Online launches closed beta tomorrow

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Crush Online has been mentioned on Massively OP only briefly, but this week it might be worth a closer look as tomorrow it launches...

Grab an Asta, ELOA, Rappelz, Mu Online, Flyff, or C9 gift code in Webzen’s summer giveaway

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Webzen is back with another huge giveaway on MOP, this one in celebration of summer across its multiple MMOs. The company has granted us...
This is all going well. Good decisions are being made.

What the Titanforged gear will mean for World of Warcraft: Legion

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World of Warcraft players recently got an eyeful of information about Titanforged items and how the game's item levels will work through Legion (and...

Out of Reach is the robust survival sandbox you’ve been overlooking

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Has the market reached the point of survival sandbox saturation yet? Several games are hoping that there's still raging demand out there, including Out...

The Stream Team: Wrangling Riders of Icarus’ new mounts

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Are you curious about those new mounts Riders of Icarus just introduced? The open beta doesn't start until next week, but MassivelyOP's MJ has...

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