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]

AdventureQuest 3D’s Guardian will protect you in your darkest hour

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After recently taking a tour of the upcoming AdventureQuest 3D, it's safe to say that this multi-platform MMO has piqued our interest. There's something...

The Stream Team: Happy first birthday ARK!

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It was exactly one year ago today that ARK: Survival Evolved entered the scene, allowing MassivelyOP's MJ to start getting eaten by dinos. One...

Kritika Online heads into open beta next week

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Kritika Online is one of those MMOs that seem to take the "action" label very, very seriously, as it's always portrayed to be in...

ARK: Survival Evolved celebrates a year of early access

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Bring out your party hats and kazoos because ARK: Survival Evolved is celebrating its first birthday as an early access title this week with...

Chronicles of Elyria releases world interaction tech preview video

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Following its announcement yesterday that Chronicles of Elyria will make use of the SpatialOS platform for handling the massively multiplayer scope of the game,...
Predictive!

Crowfall explores the joys of server latency and ability use

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Does half a second sound like a long time to you? Of course it doesn't. A second doesn't sound like a long time to...

Master X Master introduces WildStar’s Mondo Zax

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One of the hooks of NCsoft's upcoming Master X Master MOBA is that it pulls its heroes from all of NCsoft's games -- and...
Ribbit.

Albion Online details the creation of frogs

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If you see a frog hopping around in your MMO of choice, you probably don't think about it too much. Either it's just a...
is land

Worlds Adrift shows off the features of its island creator

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There's a bunch of cool stuff you can do with the Worlds Adrift island creator. For example, you can create floating sky-islands. That's cool....

Atlas Reactor opens beta access to all this weekend

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Are you planning on purchasing the buy-to-play Atlas Reactor? If you haven't made up your mind yet, Trion Worlds is hoping that a weekend...
Snipe!

Grab a Riders of Icarus closed beta key from Nexon and MOP

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Riders of Icarus is gearing up for its third and final round of closed beta beginning tomorrow, complete with account rewards for participation. Nexon's granted us...

Camelot Unchained discusses CUBE, abilities, and beta one plans

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Camelot Unchained's 22nd newsletter has arrived, and I feel it's tradition at this point to confirm that it clocks in just under 9000 words....

Chronicles of Elyria announces SpatialOS platform integration

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Soulbound Studios has just announced that Chronicles of Elyria will team up with a tech startup called Improbable to make use of its SpatialOS...
Boys and girls in cars, dogs and cats on lawns - from up here I can see them all.

Valiance Online preps for alpha patch, Steam move

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Valiance Online is packing up and prepping for a move... to Steam. The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG was Greenlit on the platform back...
I don't understand what's going on here.

A TERA/Devilian mobile crossover game exists

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All right. So what do you get when you combine TERA with Devilian? No, not the concepts of those games, the actual games. What...

Shroud of the Avatar creates a network of player helpers

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Last week, Shroud of the Avatar rolled out Release 30 for the game's community, which means that this MMO is now within striking distance...

Getting perspective on Chronicles of Elyria’s planned PvP and PvE featureset

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Anyone on the MassivelyOP team will probably tell you that I won't shut up about Chronicles of Elyria. There's so much to like about...

Crowfall has completely revamped its archetype power icons

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If you ever whined about the "shouting lady face" minstrel icons in Lord of the Rings Online, then you are precisely the UI junkie...
Ah, because you're awesome. That's your selling point.

Chronicles of Elyria developers discuss rope bridge development

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There's no question at this point about whether or not Chronicles of Elyria will be funded. There is, however, some question of whether or...

Rebuild civilization after its collapse in Edengrad

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What would you do if you woke up in post-apocalyptic settings? If your answer is, "Rebuild as fast as possible so that civilization can...

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