beta testing
WoW Classic’s Wrath of the Lich King beta is coming later this summer
While Blizzard's announcement that Wrath Classic is coming to World of Warcraft came as a surprise to absolutely no one, perhaps not everyone...
Pet-gathering open world MMO Chimeraland announces NA release plans, starts Canadian closed beta
Over the course of the past year we've been covering the progress of Chimeraland, an open world cross-platform MMO coming to PC, iOS, and...
The Stream Team: Checking out the Ship of Heroes housing beta
As housing is one of Massively OP's MJ's favorite things in MMOs, she's always eager to find fun new housing systems to check out....
LOTRO Legendarium: Remembering 15 amazing years of Lord of the Rings Online
Server performance issues aside, Lord of the Rings Online's 15th anniversary has been a smashing success. It's been far greater an event than I...
Betawatch: Dysterra enters another beta testing phase
It's time to test Dysterra, don't you know? If you have been eagerly looking forward to a chance to get in on the game's testing,...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon preps Steam closed beta, ‘retires’ official forums
Five years after Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched, the PvP MMORPG is getting ready to go into closed beta once more. This time, however,...
Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing
We've got housing on the brain lately, thanks to Ship of Heroes' housing beta, Final Fantasy XIV's botched housing lottos, Warframe's new housing, and...
Ship of Heroes’ player housing beta begins today
As promised, City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPG Ship of Heroes is throwing open its superhero doors for a fresh round of open beta beginning...
Overwatch 2 designers talk about the game’s first beta test including support buffs and the lack of a ranked queue
The Blizzard team behind Overwatch 2 is doing its best to communicate with players about the state of the game's testing and what changes...
Legends of Aria talks up its next testing phases and attempts to rationalize why it ‘needs’ the blockchain
Legends of Aria is continuing to beat the drum of its revamp and restructuring into a blockchain and NFT-filled MMORPG. A new dev blog...
Bring an umbrella to Fractured’s beta – the weather system patch is live
Live in Fractured Online's always-on closed beta as of today is the promised weather system, which Dynamight Studios says will integrate with the existing...
Massively on the Go: Nintendo Switch Sports’ post-launch is going smoothly – but to where?
Nintendo Switch Sports is out in the wild now, and while early reviews were limited to offline play, obviously our coverage requires a game...
Grab a key for tomorrow’s Dysterra beta on Steam, courtesy of Kakao
Kakao and Reality MagiQ are preparing for another big beta round for Dysterra, its survival MMO that mixes "solid first person shooting with sophisticated...
Ship of Heroes shows off player-made houses ahead of this weekend’s housing beta test
This coming weekend will see a beta test focused on player housing in the developing superheroic MMO Ship of Heroes, and while there was...
The Stream Team: Checking up on the open beta of Space Punks
Last time he was in the OARPG Space Punks, MOP's Chris was... not very impressed. However, that was last August, and the game has...
The Game Archaeologist: Six cancelled MMOs that I wish had launched
In my lengthy tenure writing The Game Archaeologist -- which dates back to May 2010, if you can believe it -- I've covered MMOs...
Betawatch 2: 2 Beta 2 Overwatch
It's time to beta test Overwatch 2! Well, it's time for some people to beta test it. It might not include you; it's a closed beta,...
Massively on the Go: The top 10 Pokemon Go Mega Pokemon worth investing in
As dataminers discovered back in April, Pokemon GO's Mega Evolution system has gotten its third reworking, plus the release of regional Kangaskhan's Mega, released globally...
You can set yourself on fire to get around Fractured’s new temperature mechanics
MMOs with diurnal cycles - day and night phases - are a dime a dozen. But MMOs where those phases actually matter to gameplay?...
Halo Infinite’s Season 2 roadmap angers some fans despite explanation of work-life balance
The next season of Halo Infinite has been promising long-standing fans of the series a lot of features, but the timing of those features...
