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]

MU Legends offers up an eight-minute trailer

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Are you looking forward to checking out MU Legend? You might have a long wait: Although the prequel to MU Online is planned to...

Crowfall Q&A talks about Eternal Kingdoms and next playable archetypes

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The Crowfall community has no end of questions for the ArtCraft team, and ArtCraft has no end of time to answer them. Actually, today...
Ha, launch, like a spaceship. Cute.

Ascent: The Space Game formally launches from early access today

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Players of Ascent: The Space Game have no doubt grown accustomed to the game being in early access, along with approximately every other title....

Run-and-gun permadeath platformer StarBreak launches in May

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What would it have been like if you could have played the side-scrolling platformers from the 1980s and 1990s with tons of other people?...

Worlds Adrift walks down the fashion runway

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Cosmetics are serious business, people. And lest you think we're joking, we really are not: Players obviously care deeply about how their characters look...

The Stream Team: Another round of Atlas Reactor alpha

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It's been a while since MassivelyOP's MJ dived into Atlas Reactor, the match-based sci-fi PvP game. With the open alpha closing soon, this is...
It's not happening, people.

Bless Online strives to balance its PvE and PvP communities

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This past weekend the Bless Online dev team sat down with the community in Seoul to talk about the state and future of the...

Derek Smart is pulling Line of Defense from Steam over review-bombing

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In response to a question about Line of Defense's status on Steam, developer Derek Smart (yes, that Derek Smart) has told players that he...
Because of course she's curvy.

Livelock reveals its final character, Catalyst

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Livelock has revealed its final character out of its lineup of robots, and she's not going into battle alone. Not just in the sense...
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Project Gorgon introduces player vendor stalls

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There are plenty of ways to sell items to other players in Project Gorgon already, but there are some situations not covered by the...

The Black Death starts Steam early access next week

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What imaginative little boy or girl doesn't occasionally escape into the fantasy of being a grubby peasant during one of the worst pandemics in...
Where is something I can hit with a pointy bit of metal?

Gloria Victis patch balances weapons and adds armor penetration

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The combat in Gloria Victis is a big part of the game, so it makes sense that the developers are taking their time to...

The MOP Up: Demons invade Skyforge (April 10, 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...

H1Z1: King of the Kill adjustments highlight beta process

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A new H1Z1: King of the Kill producer's letter is a prime example of how the testing period of development often goes. Like mechanics...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s studio report (April 9, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen published a massive studio report, complete with a brand-new video on EVA transitions for first-person combat. Meanwhile, Sacrament...

The Stream Team: Making a maze with mobs in Landmark

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While MassivelyOP's MJ had some concerns and issues with Landmark's big spring patch (her first moments in game were buggy), there is one aspect...

Camelot Unchained makes ‘slow and steady progress’ toward beta

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The pieces are falling into place for Camelot Unchained's first beta, although it's not quite here yet. Mark Jacobs jumped onto the stage on...
Car game.

Betawatch: Everything is going into beta (April 8, 2016)

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Do you feel a cold, hollow pit in your heart that could only be filled with Auto Assault and its legacy of motorized vehicles...

Hear the first music track from No Man’s Sky

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Wonder what you'll be hearing while you're exploring the near-infinite universe of No Man's Sky? Work has completed on the soundtrack for the upcoming...

Star Citizen’s Around the Verse teases procedurally generated planets

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse video sees Cloud Imperium's Sandi Gardiner and Ben Lesnick discussing the game's 2.4 patch, explaining the plan...