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]

Pax Dei elaborates on alpha two’s focus on combat and PvP with updates to several related systems

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Pax Dei developer Mainframe Industries is looking to keep the conversation going about its April 23rd second alpha test, which leads us to its...
Cool, I guess.

Betawatch: Chrono Odyssey gets a publisher but no dates

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Good news, Chrono Odyssey fans! Or... well, speculative fans. There's not a game yet to be a fan of; there's just a promise that...

RIFT holds a server load test as part of new data center migration, manually reruns the Mech Parade event

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This week marks another bit of odd activity in RIFT, which appears to be associated with earlier server merging and server transfers: Gamigo is...

The Stream Team: Roaming further into an astrolabe forest in Nightingale

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MOP's Chris was last seen taking his first exploratory sojourns into an astrolabe forest in Nightingale for Choose My Adventure, and today he'll be...

Star Citizen outlines the features and functions of alpha 3.23’s new persistent hangars

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As a space trucker myself, I can tell you having the ability to have my own hangar definitely appeals to me, so the newest...

NCsoft’s Throne & Liberty has been out in Korea for 100+ days, with still no news on the global launch

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Yesterday's Battle Crush announcement from NCsoft reminded me that we still don't have any fresh news on the state of Throne and Liberty's western...

EVE Vanguard’s latest playtest adds a mining laser, resource gathering, and suppression contracts

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Playtesting for the EVE Vanguard module within EVE Online is continuing once more this weekend, and it's bringing several new feature updates for those...

Fractured’s latest early access patch boosts orb generation and nerfs Assassins

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Now this is a long shot, so bear with me, but does anyone out there like buffs? Oh, everyone? Actually everyone likes buffs? Well...

Pax Dei announces a week-long NDA-free second alpha test starting April 23

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Pax Dei has been teasing the features of its wilderness over the past few weeks, but soon a lucky number of fans will get...

Pantheon calls first season an ‘overwhelming success,’ talks up new dungeon for S2

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Whatever your feelings might be about the Season 1 test build of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen from a visual standpoint, Visionary Realms is...

ArcheAge 2 has been delayed (again), now to some point in or after 2025

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Our eyes must have glazed over the Q4 2023 investor report from Kakao when it dropped a few weeks ago, but it contained some...

Gaijin’s ocean adventure MMO Age of Water sets sail for early access on April 18

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Gaijin's seafaring MMO Age of Water has an official early access launch date: April 18th. We've had our eye on the game since its...

Fight or Kite: Is Epic’s MOBA Paragon just too easy to remake but impossible to succeed?

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This past week we got some news regarding Predecessor, a new MOBA game on the way. At first blush, it looks like many other...

Eternal Tombs, the MMO with live GMs, preps for its closed beta in April

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In less than two weeks, Eternal Tombs will be hosting its first publicly accessible playtest -- and Triune Studios wants to set proper expectations...

Chrono Odyssey debuts a splashy new in-engine trailer and confirms Kakao Games as publisher

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It's been a long time since we've heard any major announcements out of Chrono Odyssey, the developing open world fantasy MMORPG from Npixel that...

NCsoft’s PC/mobile MOBA Battle Crush enters its second global beta – here’s how to get in

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NCsoft's next big thing has launched its second global beta! No, it's not Throne & Liberty; it's Battle Crush, a MOBA that is clearly...

Riot has ‘decided to reset the direction’ of the Riot MMORPG as team goes ‘dark’ under new boss

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It's hard to take the Riot MMO too seriously when we're still stuck using Runeterra pics and calling it the Riot MMO for want...

Nightingale’s latest video tackles disconnect bugs, QOL tweaks, and compensation for missing houses

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Inflexion Games' Maribel Diaz is back with another community video for Nightingale, kicking it off by addressing ongoing disconnect bugs. "It came down to a...

Palia is expanding its flowers, trees, and plants system with its next patch

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As we lumber on toward Palia's Steam early access beta launch next week, Singularity 6 has a few more surprises in store, and no,...

Tarisland’s new Twelve Monarchs raid is ‘now live,’ whatever that means

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Tarisland's marketing team clearly is operating in a parallel dimension where this fantasy MMORPG already released because it's inviting fans to "jump in now"...

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