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]

Interview: Population Zero explains its combat, training, raiding, and more

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Population Zero, the survival MMO from Enplex Games, is currently in the midst of closed beta test weekends, with its third CBT live now...

Voidspace promises a survival MMO where players control the narrative, created items, and even inventions

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In the vast majority of survival sandbox titles, creating items means you have to follow a pre-determined path or tree in order to unlock...

Star Citizen brings the interdiction-fixing alpha 3.7.1 online and shares the schedule for CitizenCon

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With the newest update to Star Citizen, the game has hopefully fixed its little space rock vs. face problem (spoiler: space rock wins). Alpha...

EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile EVE Echoes enters beta in December

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EVE Online mobile MMO EVE Echoes is swooping past its summer alpha into a winter beta, according to an announcement from CCP Games and NetEase...

‘Unique social roleplaying experience’ Book of Travels begins Kickstarter

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If you've often promised that you would support online RPGs that broke from tropish traditions and took risks, well, it's time to put your...
I still love you, robot.

Torchlight Frontiers is adding customizable robot heads according to roadmap update

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Here's the thing: If you're playing Torchlight Frontiers' alpha, you're playing a robot. There's no reason not to play a robot. And according to...

Bless Unleashed devs say they’ve ‘drastically reworked the entire crafting system’

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As Neowiz and Bandai Namco march onward toward the open beta of Bless Unleashed in November, the teams have once again penned a dev...
Oh, is that all.

Project C explains the studio’s philosophy behind the in-game economy and its business model

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MMOs offering a currency pegged to real money that can also be converted back into real money aren't particularly common, but Project C is...

Make your own online game with Playcraft’s incredible toybox, launching today

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Sure, you talk big about making games if you only knew how to code, but would you actually make good on that boast if...

Space colony MMO SEED announces ‘Pioneers’ alpha coming in 2020

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With SpatialOS titles bailing out of the genre left and right, it falls to games like Seed - now being marketed as SEED -...

Miniature Desert Oasis: Hands-on with the upcoming Black Desert Mobile

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Five years ago, if you'd asked me about any mobile game, I wouldn't have even considered it a real game. I'd have considered it...
There are some who call me... big.

Kingdom Under Fire 2 prepares for its Western release with several class videos

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When you hear the classes for the MMO Kingdom Under Fire 2, you probably can guess which one does what; there are only so...
Batty.

Project Gorgon adds Halloween quest, adjusts the Giant Bat skill in latest update

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There's nothing quite like reading the patch notes for Project Gorgon because what other game lets you not only become a giant bat but also seriously...

MMO sandbox Boundless patches in new build items, teases Halloween

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Fresh off its first birthday, Square-Enix backed voxel interplanetary survival-crafting MMO Boundless is already pushing on with more updates. Builders and hoarders are going...

Choose My Adventure: The poisonous hell of the Hyvid Frontier in Torchlight Frontiers

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The Goblin Frontier of Torchlight Frontiers isn’t exactly boring per se so much as just… blasé, I guess is the word I want to...

Hellion launches out of early access unfinished and ends development

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If you point your brain back at 2017, you'll recall that an ambitious survival sandbox called Hellion braved the Steam early access waters. Zero...

Camelot Unchained nears the finish line for NPC pathfinding and shows off a new texture editor

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If you look over our Camelot Unchained tag, you'll probably see a number of variants to the same story of City State Entertainment's work...

Star Citizen Q&A livestream touches on mining, caves, quality-of-life tweaks, and more

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It's Q&A time for Star Citizen's developers in the most recent Star Citizen Live livestream that took place. As one would expect, this Q&A...

Starbase shows off its robotic body with a video all about player endoskeletons

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Sure, Starbase is about building spaceships and space stations of various sizes, types, and complexities, but none of that actually happens without the endoskeleton...

Crowfall’s ACE Q&A talks War of the Gods as the game readies up Decapathon 2

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October's ACE Q&A for Crowfall is up and online, and to perhaps nobody's surprise, it's all about the upcoming War of the Gods milestone....

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