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]

NCsoft promises Lineage Eternal’s closed beta testing next year

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Over the summer, NCsoft was conducting small-scale focus-group testing for Lineage Eternal, another sequel for the bafflingly popular and profitable Lineage MMORPG. In fact, two more such...
This didn't work out all right.

The Repopulation patches delayed due to Hero Engine issues

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Fans of The Repopulation have grown accustomed to an aggressive testing and update schedule, but the testing schedule has suddenly and unexpectedly slowed. A...
Taking care of business

Let the NPCs handle your busy work with Albion Online’s laborers

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There are certain tedious tasks that are just better left up to automation sometimes. Sure, you need a steady flow of incoming wood and...
Catte

Asta kicks off its first beta test in the West

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Will Asta be a success here after its poor fate in its native land? It's too early to say, but you can start making...
That's a nice throne. Mind if I war over it?

Crowfall takes on the fine degrees of separation between bow users

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You are not your weapon in Crowfall. Just because two archetypes use a bow in the game doesn't mean that they play the same....

Dogma: Eternal Night brings MMO vampires to Kickstarter

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Do you need a game that's so dark that if it were any darker it'd be a pure black rectangle on your monitor? Are...

Blizzard secures rights to Overwatch’s name

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Overwatch's tagline is, "The world needs heroes." If we might amend that motto in light of a recent story, it should add "...but no more...

Here’s how to use a factory in the Divergence alpha

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Divergence Online creator Ethan Casner published a new YouTube video yesterday that focuses on the sci-fi sandbox's factory implementation. Much like in the classic...

It’s Kung Fu Master week in Blade & Soul

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Do you know kung fu? The Blade & Soul Kung Fu Master does, clearly, and today NCsoft decided to kick off Kung Fu Master...

The Stream Team: Doling out Das Tal alpha keys

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Back in June, MassivelyOP's MJ explored Das Tal during a playtest with devs. Now you have the chance to jump in and see what...

Otherland devs deny buying positive Steam reviews

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Drago Entertainment has today denied allegations that it paid for positive Otherland reviews on Steam. Website MMOs.com accused the developer of directly paying for fake reviews,...

Das Tal opens persistent testing server

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It's one small step for test servers but one giant leap for Das Tal. The "open-world survival arena" has kicked off a nine-day run of...

The MOP Up: Free Tribes for all (November 1, 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...

Star Citizen finalizes details for Alpha 2.0

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Hark! Can you hear that? It's the siren call of Star Citizen's Alpha 2.0 update, which is so near that you can hear, smell,...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: Updates, reveals, and more (October 31, 2015)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, the usual suspects kept us abreast of their progress with developer blogs, class reveals, status updates, and the like....

Worlds Adrift UI is a mixture of the ‘diegetic’ and the traditional

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The latest Worlds Adrift dev blog talks up the game's user interface, and more specifically a "diegetic UI" that is included in the game...

The Scream Team: Hunting the dead and the DodoRex in ARK: Fear Evolved

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Nothing beats a good Halloween event, and ARK's transformation into ARK: Fear Evolved is one of the best. From fighting roving skeletal dinosaurs to...

The Stream Team: Another date with Devilian

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MassivelyOP’s MJ was pleasantly surprised at how much she was enjoying her first romp in Devilian. And now that the second closed beta weekend...
Beta botch.

Betawatch: Closed beta explosion (October 30, 2015)

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It's a week of games entering closed beta. That is the joke here, if you want to call it a joke. Front and center,...

Camelot Unchained’s Scouts sound pretty badass [Updated]

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Camelot Unchained has revealed its Scout archetypes, and they are the Arisen, the Wisp, and the Specter. Arisen are "the most powerful of the...