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Lost Ark gets a new website, opens second CBT signups
Korean-born MMORPG Lost Ark has just gotten a huge website revamp that hints at a development ramp-up. If you run the site through Google...
Moonlight Blade charges toward a final closed beta in September
It's the final countdown to the final closed beta for Moonlight Blade! Right now, Nexon is laying the groundwork for the game's final beta...
Lost Ark sails into closed beta 2 this Friday
Countdowns could mean many things. Missile launches. Christmas. New Year's Day. Or in the case of Lost Ark, the start of its second closed...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained is rapidly approaching beta (August 18, 2017)
The wait for the Camelot Unchained beta has been long and arduous in the way that only "just sit around and wait" can possibly...
Worlds Adrift introducing anti-cheat measures sooner than anticipated
It's best to read the latest letter from the Worlds Adrift development team with a slightly exasperated tone of voice. After all, the developers...
Osiris: New Dawn explains its closed beta plan
Why would an early access game suddenly decide to hold a limited closed beta test? That's the question of the week for Osiris: New...
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...
The MOP Up: Portal Knights splits up the party (August 13, 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...
Betawatch: The Exiled limits lives in hopes of extending its life (August 11, 2017)
If you've been following The Exiled for a bit, you know the game has been struggling to reach a large enough audience to sustain...
Lost Ark’s Korean beta features boats, storms, and treasure hunting
When Lost Ark was first announced back in 2014 as basically the next generation of Diablo-clone in an MMO, I remember being straight-up grabby-hands...
Lineage Eternal delayed again, Guild Wars 2 mobile game teased
Steparu is reporting on a Korean-language piece today that suggests Lineage Eternal is once again in do-over mode. According to the report, NCsoft has gutted...
Wild West Online denies that its alpha has been delayed
Hey, cowboys and cowgirls. When did you think alpha was going to begin for Wild West Online? You're wrong, apparently. 612 Games broke its recent...
Betawatch: Delays always win (August 4, 2017)
We realize that some of our readers are a bit younger, so we'd like to introduce you to a universal truism of life: Delays...
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...
Survivalbox roundup: Hellion’s new servers, Life is Feudal beta stories, and Astroneer plunders planets for profit
It's time for a good dose of survivalbox news! Let's start with Hellion, which deployed new official servers in several regions across the world...
Derek Smart’s Line of Defense brings on secondary team for console version
Derek Smart's MMO Line of Defense has a progress update this week covering the state of the game's build. A new patch is on...
Black Desert team on the male Ranger, mobile version, and SEA server
Catching up with the Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss at ChinaJoy 2017, MMO Culture wrung out of the team a short but informative interview...
Betawatch: Escape from Tarkov invites you to come in for closed testing (July 28, 2017)
Escape from Tarkov is heading into closed beta testing this weekend, complete with a trailer, so now's your chance to jump in if you bought...
Durango: Wild Lands begins closed beta on mobile
If you happen to live in Southeast Asia, you might have an opportunity to play dino wrangler this weekend that the rest of the...
Betawatch: Dark and Light shines a light on early access (July 21, 2017)
For everything, there is a season, turn turn turn. We've bid farewell to Albion Online this week, as it has launched properly and thus...