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]

Titan Siege starts beta testing tomorrow

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For some PvP players, there is nothing quite like the struggle of a truly epic siege. Appealing to players who like a good army...

Star Citizen’s breathtaking procedurally generated planet system trailer

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OK, Citizens. Put down your joysticks and listen up. Star Citizen's holiday hype trailer "From Pupil to Planet" has arrived and demands your eyeballs...

Tree of Savior offers server choice to Oceania players

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Tree of Savior players in Singapore and Malaysia have a serious, deadly, world-shattering choice to make. OK, it's not that dire, although it is a...

Hi-Rez announces $100K Paladins tourney

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Paladins isn't officially launched yet, but Hi-Rez is already planning its competitive scene -- and its first tournament. On the official forums yesterday, Hi-Rez...

Worlds Adrift demos alpha progress

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We might not have flying cars here in the year 2015, but we do have a game that's trying its hardest to create flying...
FEEL THE NOISE

WoW multibox reporter banned for ‘breaking TOS’ [Updated]

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Here's an interesting tidbit: Did you know that killing one player in a PvP area in World of Warcraft can get you banned? Not...
All this and more dinosaurs besides.

ARK: Survival Evolved launches in preview status on Xbox One today

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Ready to get your dinosaur survival antics on while playing from the comfort of your couch? ARK: Survival Evolved is making the console jump...
Going nowhere.

Black Desert’s first English closed beta starts today

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The advent of Black Desert's first English-language closed beta test does not mean that the wait for the game is nearly over, since the...

Crowfall goes into depth about designing advancement systems

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There's a new goofy (yet informative) video series happening over at Crowfall called Systems Chat. In it, the devs take time to explain how...
I ruined just... all the things.

World of Warcraft’s Legion testing is taking a holiday break, too

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We hope you weren't planning on playing any of the World of Warcraft: Legion alpha during your own holiday break (assuming you have one)....

It’s a Wipe! mimics online guild management

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How well do you fancy yourself a guild leader? If you've ever had a hankering to try it out without all of the drama...

Shroud of the Avatar player band records musical performance

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Do you enjoy blundering around in your online worlds, encased in darkness with no torch? Good news for you: The latest Shroud of the Avatar...
The hungriest of domes.

Crowfall aims siege warfare at February

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If you're enjoying the current round of testing for Crowfall, we have both good news and bad news for you. The bad news is...

The MOP Up: GTA Online makes every bullet count (December 13, 2015)

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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 gets comfortable with food

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What does H1Z1 and The Sims have in common? Other than being gruesome torture boxes for innocent video game characters, both games are focused...

Star Citizen launches 2.0 alpha for all Citizens

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Cloud Imperium has just launched Star Citizen's 2.0 alpha version to the public. "Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 is here! Today, we are proud to make...
And this time, we mean it.

Betawatch: Albion Online celebrates the season and its backers (December 11, 2015)

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Who loves Albion Online? The game is clearly doing something right enough to celebrate 60,000 founders backing the game in its current beta test;...

Albion Online celebrates 60,000 founders

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Albion Online studio Sandbox Interactive has a lot to be pleased about today: It's reached a new milestone in the form of 60,000 total founders. Two...

Rokh offers a persistent multiplayer survival sandbox set on Mars

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If H1Z1's zombies and ARK: Survival Evolved's dinos aren't your kind of survival sandbox, how about one set on the planet Mars? Darewise Entertainment and...
The gang's all there.

SkySaga commemorates a year of alpha testing and teases holiday events

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Let's get this out of the way before having any sort of serious discussion about SkySaga: The developers have tweeted a picture of a...