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]

Ascent Infinite Realm teases player housing and floating islands

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Last month, Ascent Infinite Realm -- the in-development steampunky MMORPG from Bluehole and Kakao Games -- broke its long Twitter silence to share some...

Crowfall prepares to commence its first campaign

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November is here, and with it comes the beginning of the path to Crowfall's first real campaign, in which players will finally be able...

The MOP Up: TERA opens SEA server and delivers Deathwrack to consoles

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It was a pretty big week for action combat MMO TERA, starting with the delivery of the four-dungeon Deathwrack update to Xbox One and...

The Repopulation hires new composer, continues cleanup and revamp of starter map

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Idea Fabrik is still plugging away at The Repopulation, according to its end-of-October dev blog. "The last two tests we did gave us some...

Torchlight Frontiers’ Forts will be players’ homes amidst the wilderness

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The world of Echtra Games's upcoming action-RPG title Torchlight Frontiers is vast and untamed, but players will be able to carve out a piece...
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Betawatch: Ashes of Creation tests battle royale, Occupy White Walls hands out beta keys

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So... all right. Ashes of Creation has a secondary side battle royale mode that's going to be entitled Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse and is...

BlizzCon 2018: Diablo fans go into full-fledged meltdown mode over Immortal

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It's hard to imagine a more perfect storm of nerdrage than the one that Blizzard concocted at BlizzCon this Friday. Sorely neglected Diablo fans...

BlizzCon 2018: Diablo Immortal is a ‘mobile massively multiplayer online action–role-playing game’

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Hey, Diablo III. Happy Switch launch day. Happy Diablo Immortal day! (So much for that animated series rumor?) As announced during the BlizzCon opening ceremony,...

Star Citizen on underground bunker design, looking ahead to alpha 3.4, and closing in on $200M

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse continues the post-CitizenCon catch-up, this time featuring the underground bunker on Hurston, including the layout, design, and...

Camelot Unchained’s October newsletter delves into the development of the game’s magic system

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October is now behind us, and that means it's time for City State Entertainment's monthly Camelot Unchained newsletter, in which the devs recap the...
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Ascent: Infinite Realm teases players about the PvP arena

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We've all been waiting for more information about Ascent: Infinite Realm, and the most recent teases about the game confirm something very important. You...
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Fallout 76’s Atom shop is in the game’s beta (but not usable just yet)

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As you walk through the wasteland in the Fallout 76, be on the lookout for Atoms. Yes, with a capital letter, that's the game's...

Ashes of Creation announces Apocalypse, its free-to-play battle royale test mode

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Over the last couple of months, Intrepid Studios has been talking up Ashes of Creation's alpha one, which was set to include a battle...

City of Heroes SEGS emulator patches in early content

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Perhaps the best shot of getting City of Heroes back as we once knew it lies in the hands of the outlaw developers over...

That Fallout 76 speedhack ‘won’t be out until the game launches,’ Bethsoft says

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For a while now, it's been pretty common practice among PC gamers to edit a game's .ini file in order to make tweaks to...
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Crowfall shows off the art of designing sound for creatures

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Sound design is important when you're working on an MMO. You want, say, the giant spiders players are fighting to sound right... but that...

Fallout 76 holotape series Tales from the West Virginia Hills highlights some creepy wasteland creatures

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Just in time for Halloween, Bethesda has released a series of new stories from the Fallout 76 universe highlighting some of the creepy-crawly critters...
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How Legends of Aria is avoiding the ‘gankbox’ MMO problem

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Player freedom in sandbox games is always a tricky balancing act, and developers often have to walk a very fine line to prevent their...

Ship of Heroes demos deadly Halloween trick-or-treating and spooky new models

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Just because a game's still being built doesn't mean it can't work on seasonal events, Ship of Heroes proves once again today. Heroic Games...

Fallout 76’s PC beta window got off to a rough start

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If you were aiming to tool around in last night's Fallout 76 PC beta episode, you probably found yourself a bit disappointed. Some folks...

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