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]

Let him sleep.

Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: An interview with Naoki Yoshida

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Let Naoki Yoshida sleep, people. The man was visibly exhausted when I interviewed him on May 21st, not at all helped by the fact...
Angry.rar

Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: The fairy-tale fight of Dohn Mheg

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You all know by now that it's tradition for me to run my dungeon in these Final Fantasy XIV preview events as a new...
Gotta run to gun.

Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: The ranged DPS

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Huh. This is a really weird contrast in this batch. Obviously, there are only two ranged DPS to cover, but in Stormblood that didn't matter...
Unembraced.

Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: The new jobs

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The two new jobs debuting in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers had a lot to live up to. For one thing, both of them were...

New MMO Starbase pretty much sounds like EverQuest Next in space plus robots

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Finnish developer Frozenbyte just dropped a brand-new MMO on the Steam store: It's called Starbase, and it's set to launch into early access "later...

World of Warcraft: Classic dragon griefing, Argus redux, and BFA end boss

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Fun fact: Did you know that Blizzard had originally been considering Argus -- the late Legion content update -- as its own full-fledged expansion?...

Ship of Heroes’ latest video demos leveling, buffing, combat, and fire powerset animations

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Over the holiday weekend, Heroic Games dropped a fresh video for Ship of Heroes hopefuls, this one covering fundamental mechanics: leveling, buffing, and character...

Wild West Online rebrands as New Frontier, now with steampunk and alien monsters

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You know what they say: When a horse is beaten to death, that's just a good opportunity to reanimate it as a steampunk monstrosity. The...
Bear with us!

Latest Legends of Aria experimental server patch introduces Colossal mini-bosses

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A new patch has hit the Legends of Aria experimental server, bringing with it a brand-new type of PvE encounter in the form of...
Crafty.

Make My MMO: Playcraft’s Kickstarter ends May 28

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, we're turning our eyes back to Playcraft, the MMO in which you build other MMOs. Its Kickstarter ends on...
All right, here we go.

Betawatch: Torchlight Frontiers kicks its leveling up a notch

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The train for Torchlight Frontiers rolls on, and not just because it literally has a class about summoning a train. The latest patch for the...

Red Dead Online adds some new free roam missions, new clothing, and content for PS4 players

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The world of Red Dead Online has expanded once again, at least as it relates to content. An update to the multiplayer title earlier...

Crowfall’s three-week Maeve campaign has begun as ArtCraft releases new War Stories video

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The Trial of Maeve has begin for Crowfall following last weekend's Kierlan campaign. Maeve, however, runs much longer: through June 12th, with no reset...

Ashes of Creation explores economy-centric nodes at the heart of its player city system

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Ashes of Creation is speaking my language this week in its lengthy dev blog on the game's economic node. Nodes, you'll recall, are the...

The Stream Team: Little Shop of Oddities in AdventureQuest 3D

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Is it odd? Weird? Totally off-the-wall? Then chances are Massively OP's MJ will like it! And AQ3D has just opened a shop that basically...

Star Citizen begins early testing for alpha 3.5.1, answers Tumbril Ranger questions, and shows off plants

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Hi friends! Would you like to hear more about Star Citizen stuff? Of course you would! And if you don't, make sure to tell...

The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two

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Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...
Doom approaches.

WoW Classic schedules a two-hour make-up stress test next Wednesday

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It's the hottest ticket in town, and it's straight from 2004. The World of Warcraft Classic beta test is drawing all sorts of attention...

MMORPG Astellia launches preorders, plans June closed beta, and rejects gender-locking

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Upcoming MMORPG Astellia pumped out a ton of information with the launch of its new website and preorders for the game last night. Game...

Webzen is porting mobile MMO MU Origin 2 westward next week

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You'd be forgiven for being confused about the MU franchise, given just how many titles Webzen has pumped out using that IP. There's MU...

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