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]

Firefly Online aims to misbehave in beta soon

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Firefly Online's certainly been running quiet over the past year or so, in part due to the rework required from landing the show's actors...
More exciting than the video.

The Divergence Steam drama timeline: What we know

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Update February 2nd: The DMCA complaint has been dropped and the store page is back online. In the wake of Divergence Online's disappearance from the...

The Division extends beta test, plots open beta, grapples with rampant cheating

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The good news? The Division is extending its weekend beta test for an additional day, allowing players to keep on exploring its fallen New...

Take a tour of a pair of Bless Online dungeons

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For some, the meat of any MMO is in its dungeons, and it is here that Steparu has turned his attention in his journey...

The MOP Up: Dungeons & Drama Online (January 31, 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...

Choose My Adventure: Brewing disaster in Shroud of the Avatar

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Hello, friends, and welcome to the final (belated) installment of Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar edition. Last week, I asked y'all to...

Why isometric sandbox Wild Terra is switching to 3-D models

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Hardcore sandbox Wild Terra's latest dev diary digs into the guts of how it came to the decision to switch the sprite-based character animation...
What is the world.

Otherland is temporarily borked on Steam

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If you're trying to play Otherland through Steam today, you might be noticing the store page is offline. Drago Entertainment dev Lucjan told concerned fans...

The Repopulation switches engines, announces survival spin-off ‘Fragmented’

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The Repopulation has finally issued its promised announcement to the community following the long HeroEngine drama that drove it offline last month: Above &...

PSA: Star Citizen’s free-fly weekend and Squadron 42 split

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We've got a double Star Citizen PSA for you this weekend. First, Star Citizen is open this weekend for yet another "free-fly" event; anyone can...
Pre-burned.

Make My MMO: Smedley’s Hero’s Song ditches Kickstarter (January 30, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, John Smedley put an end to the Kickstarter for his OARPG Hero's Song, telling backers that Pixelmage Games had made "mistakes"...

Conan Exiles includes purges, human sacrifice, and nudity

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While the upcoming Conan Exiles will take place in the same fictional universe as Age of Conan and be made by the same studio,...
In the grim darkness of the future there's only oh really who cares any more.

Betawatch: Eternal Crusade’s entry into early access (January 29th, 2016)

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In the grim darkness of the future, there is no more launch or beta or alpha testing, just early access for eternity. Fortunately, Eternal...

Camelot Unchained’s new website is live

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The Camelot Unchained team was back to work to work this week, confirming that City State's brand-new (and much more mobile-friendly) website is up and...
Here in mycar I feel safest of all.

Crossout enters its next phase of testing complete with factions

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If you've ever played a game focused around vehicle combat and thought "hey, this would be better with Mad Max-style customized war vehicles," you...

Get Fractured Space for free on Steam this weekend

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If you desire something a little different than the standard fantasy fare in your next MOBA, you can give Fractured Space a spin for...

H1Z1 lets its zombies dress themselves

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Zombies aren't known to be on the cutting edge of fashion -- more like the rotting fringe, if you ask us. Still, they want...

ARK adds a trio of new creatures and SWAT gear

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Prehistoric animals continue to stomp, run, and scamper into ARK: Survival Evolved. The survival title will be adding three new creatures over the next couple of...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: Why Legion’s alpha/beta label is a hair worth splitting

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The Legion alpha is back, and it is still an alpha. And I want to to stress, not for the first time, that I...
More than you know.

Waitlisted for The Division’s beta? ‘Check back tomorrow,’ says Ubisoft

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Were you assuming that handing over a stack of cash would secure your spot in The Division's beta this weekend? Well, that much is...

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