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]

Check out 12 minutes of Funcom’s Moons of Madness, set in the Secret World universe

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Back in March, Funcom announced one of its (many!) next big things, Moons of Madness, a Rock Pocket Games-developed title due out for Halloween...

Grab a Bless Unleashed CBT4 key and test the game on Xbox One this weekend

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Neowiz is plotting yet another big test for Bless Unleashed, the Bless Online spiritual successor destined for Xbox One only later this year. As...

Star Citizen’s monthly report covers AI updates for 3.6, the 890 Jump, and epic sunsets

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A new month, a new report from RSI and Star Citizen! As one would expect, it's nearly all hands on deck as the game...

That new Lord of the Rings MMORPG is still happening, now with Amazon’s New World team on board

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Hey remember last September when Athlon Games - owned by Leyou Technologies, which also owns Warframe studio Digital Extremes - announced that it was...

Star Citizen Live goes all in on piloting, outfitting, and landing internet spaceships in a Q&A

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At it's very core, Star Citizen is all about the spaceships. It's the closest to being like Top Gear for fake vehicles. It's practically...

Sci-fi sandbox MMO Starbase deep-dives space combat in new video

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You were probably busy on the Fourth of July, and so was Starbase: Finnish developer Frozenbyte posted another video for everyone to gawk over,...
Industry plunk.

Dual Universe is on-track for Alpha 2 on July 11

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The latest video for Dual Universe should be good news for anyone eagerly anticipating the game's second alpha test because it confirms that the...

Bless Unleashed says it fixed 99% of crash bugs ahead of this weekend’s closed beta

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Console fans, furbish up your controllers: Bless Unleashed is readying a new round of beta testing for you this weekend. "Our next Closed Beta...
Commence the jiggling.

Blue Protocol’s new trailer shows a vibrant world of adventure

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Could Japan be making the next great MMO? It's hard not to feel a spark of hope flare up when watching the debut trailer...
We all live a yellow... er, spaceship.

Make My MMO: Ship of Heroes’ auction hall looks good, RAW’s Kickstarter progresses

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ship of Heroes dropped a new video showing off both its night effects and the current functionality of its...
One last round.

Betawatch: World of Warcraft Classic wraps up its beta testing early

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We hope you feel that your testing experiences in World of Warcraft: Classic have sufficiently reminded you of what the classic game felt like,...

Ship of Heroes celebrates Independence Day with a new auction hall video

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You folks wanna know how hard the Ship of Heroes people are working? They put out a new video on the Fourth of July....
Very mature.

WoW Classic’s closed beta will end with an in-game event in July 12

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World of Warcraft Classic beta testers, do you think, after your 17000+ bug reports, that the game is ready to finish up its fixes...
Pagan-tastic, I guess.

Pagan Online has big plans for its early access development this summer

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OARPG fans have been keeping a keen eye on Pagan Online since its official announcement last year. Developed by Mad Head Games and Wargaming,...

Atlas launches single-player mode beta amid promises that multiplayer is the team’s ‘priority’

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Well here's something unexpected from a game that missed its own launch date back in December: Atlas is actually ahead of schedule on its...

Astellia invites you to enter the Colosseum in its latest trailer and heads for its next closed beta

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Often in action combat MMOs, the story or world built around it is secondary -- arguably tertiary -- to the feeling of getting in...

The June community journal from Chronicles of Elyria talks a lot about its Discord server

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It would seem that the Chronicles of Elyria folks are mighty proud of their Discord server if the community journal for June is any...

Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers has officially been brought

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One of the summer's major releases for MMO players officially arrives today as Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers formally launches out of headstart and into the...

Star Citizen brings patch 3.6 to wave 1 backers, introduces new universal launcher

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The next stage of Star Citizen's alpha test, update 3.6, is live and running on the game's Public Test Universe for wave 1 backers,...

Nexon’s special day reveals MapleStory, TalesWeaver, and Baram mobile games

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Last week, Nexon held the second of its 2019 Media Days to make a series of announcement about new and upcoming games. Of particular...

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