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Wild West Online’s first closed alpha has officially begun
"Open-world action-based, online multiplayer" game - somewhere between a survival sandbox and an MMO - Wild West Online officially hits closed alpha today, or...
En Masse is bringing Closers Online to the west this fall
We are glad to say that the rumors were 100% correct: En Masse Entertainment is indeed bringing Closers Online (which it is now simply...
Retro shooter Keystone rebrands as The Amazing Eternals ahead of founder beta
Remember back in 2015 when a gamer sneaked into Digital Extremes' headquarters and wandered around for a day, tricking the unassuming Canadian devs into...
Signups begin for Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics’ Xbox One and PS4 alpha
Hi-Rez has just announced that its SMITE-spinoff online card battler Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics is launching on both Xbox One and PlayStation...
LawBreakers muses on the competitive shooter market ahead of launch tomorrow
Be honest: Would you even know what LawBreakers is if it weren't for the fact that CliffyB is attached to it? Nexon and Boss...
Video games on Kickstarter continue to struggle thanks to fading consumer confidence
Earlier this week, we got SuperData's mid-year report on the booming video game industry, the enormous multinational congloms rolling around in piles of cash-shop...
Valnir Rok brings Viking survival to Gamescom
If you like the refined mead flavor of Vikings and Norse mythology, then you're the ideal audience for Valnir Rok. This survival sandbox is...
Valiance Online kicks off its investor alpha today
If you've been eagerly awaiting the day when Valiance Online would open for testers, the day has come. The investor alpha is starting today...
OrbusVR starts up open alpha on July 28
If you've been longing for the chance to play an MMO in VR but haven't yet been in the closed alpha for OrbusVR, the...
The MOP Up: SamuTale’s massive new world (July 23, 2017)
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...
Wild West Online extends preorder program, posts alpha server list
Let's get the bad news out of the way first: Wild West Online had to delay getting its promised gameplay video out. The team...
The MOP Up: Warframe’s Chains of Harrow (July 2, 2017)
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...
Warframe developer confirms retro hybrid shooter Keystone
Warframe has been positively kicking ass this past year, doing what MMOs seldom do: continue breaking its own concurrency records four years in. So...
Squad-based Sick City plans closed alpha for June
Roccat may be best-known for its gaming peripherals, including headsets, keyboards, and mice. But now the German company is making the game that could be...
Players purchase and revive defunct MMO Crowns of Power
An abandoned fantasy MMORPG might be getting a second lease on life thanks to its players, although the road ahead looks to be challenging.
Back...
OrbusVR’s alpha begins tomorrow, includes instanced player housing prototype
Indie VR sandbox OrbusVR is whooshing along toward the start of its closed alpha tomorrow, available to Kickstarter backers (it raised $34,000 in its...
Multiplayer space sim Starfighter Inc. has 12 days to finish raising $150K
We've been covering Starfighter Inc. for the last few weeks in Make My MMO, but apparently a lot of you folks who say you...
Kickstarter celebrates 10,000 funded games projects
Kickstarter announced last week that donors have officially backed 10,000 funded games projects.
That's almost 2.5 million people pledging $613 million; more than half of...
Kickstarted survival sandbox Planet Nomads hits early access on April 18
Planet Nomads is one of those gorgeous sci-fi multiplayer survival sandboxes that's been kicking around on our Make My MMO list for so long...
Age of Sail MMO Caribbean Conquest has returned to Kickstarter
Not quite a year ago, we did a brief piece on Caribbean Conquest, a sailing MMORPG that launched and then canceled a small Kickstarter....
