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Check out nearly two hours of early gameplay from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
The footage you are going to see below is not the beta test for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. It's not the alpha. It's...
Betawatch: EverQuest Next is gone, Landmark is launching (March 11, 2016)
We cannot wave farewell to EverQuest Next in this column because it's never actually been in testing. We will be able to wave farewell...
Shards Online gets ready for a big hype push in April
Next month Shards Online will stir from its deep development slumber and lurch out into the sunlight, either to terrorize neighboring villages or to...
Sea of Thieves starts a fan contest to play the game before anyone else
If you've managed to forget what happened at E3 last year, recall that Rare announced that it was making a shared-world pirate game titled...
Crowfall shows off the Ranger in action
The Ranger of Crowfall has been making the rounds lately as the resident orange-haired green-clad lady shooting arrows at targets. That part is... yeah,...
WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha
The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...
Star Citizen intermission patch shores up cracks in the alpha
You know how the song goes: 99 bugs in the code, take one down, squash it into oblivion, 117 bugs in the code! Well,...
New and tweaked class specs arrive in WoW’s latest Legion build
The testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion is almost finished adding new specs for players to try out as the latest Legion test...
Gloria Victis’ rep system lets players become nobles and outlaws
Indie sandbox Gloria Victis' alpha is humming along, this week with a redesigned rep system, rebalanced combat dynamics, and the overhauled settlement of Mereley,...
Darkfall: New Dawn shows first in-game footage
Darkfall: New Dawn, the fan-made and authorized reboot of the PvP MMO, has popped up with another progress report along with its first video...
EVE Valkyrie shifts from testing to launch this month
Do you all remember betas? They used to be something games went through, back in the days before early access, alphas, pre-alphas, and pre-pre-alphas....
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts on hobbies, patch sizes, and bacon farming
Don't lie: You know you want to know what Chris Roberts likes to do in his spare time when he isn't manning the Star...
The Culling launches into early access even earlier than promised
Did you see the announcement that The Culling would be launching into early access on March 8th and weep bitter tears because you couldn't...
The MOP Up: Blade & Soul brings in the Warlock (March 6, 2016)
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...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained hits the beta crunch (March 4, 2016)
The Camelot Unchained team is in the midst of a hard crunch period to get the game ready for full beta testing. The good...
Star Citizen pushes Alpha 2.2 to live
It's time to strap yourself in and put on your big captain boots, for Star Citizen's Alpha 2.2 is here, and it's bringing a...
The Panther and Weasel rumble into Heroes & Generals
If you're playing as the Germans in Heroes & Generals, it's probably been with the hope that you'd get to take some of that...
Ride a bear to work in Wild Terra
According to car commercials, your mode of transportation says a lot about you. So why be like the other chumps that drive an SUV...
World of Warcraft updates its expansion alpha and opens up PvP testing
One of the big elements being introduced to World of Warcraft when Legion goes live is an entirely revamped PvP system, rebuilt from the...
Das Tal readies an alpha pre-test for later this month
When is a test not a test? When it's a pre-test, of course! Oh, just ignore the silly terminology to accept the fact that...