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]

The Stream Team: Tripping the Rifts with the Dauntless Riftstalker

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A new monster has made its way to Dauntless. Part bat, part cat, part teleportation device, and part Halloween on four legs -- it's...

Fractured ‘sprints’ toward pre-alpha test, shows off day/night cycle

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For those suffering with MMO wanderlust this fall and looking for new territory to explore, Fractured might have a rather unique prospect available soon....
Skeleton bows.

Old School RuneScape has officially launched on mobile today

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Is RuneScape a mainstream PC MMORPG? Even as big as it is, I might not have applied that moniker before, but Jagex has done...

Legends of Aria custom server Legends of Ultima aims to bring the classic sandbox into the modern era

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The big selling point of Citadel Studios's in-development MMO Legends of Aria is that it allows its players to run entirely moddable custom servers,...

EverQuest II previews Chaos Descending’s Planes of Knowledge and Fire

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There's less than a month remaining before the launch of EverQuest II's next expansion, Chaos Descending, and the folks at Daybreak Games have pulled...
SWG

Star Wars Galaxies’ original emulator teases Jump to Lightspeed space content

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One of the reasons I favor the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator is that it's a late enough build of the game that it...

New World leaks make it sound more and more like a real MMO sandbox, not a survival game

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The weird thing - or clever thing - about Amazon Game Studios' New World alpha is that seemingly everyone is in it, so nobody...
Put this in a thing to store it.

Lost Ark is still on track for a November 7 South Korean open beta; here’s the epic trailer

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If it seems like we've had our eye on Lost Ark forever, that's because it's been at least half of that. It was first...

Anthem’s PGW stream and Q&A covers the Storm, pets, and soloable world events

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Paris Games Week hasn't brought much news for MMOs, but it did include a hefty video from BioWare's Anthem. It's not the best quality,...
luls

Check out the Fallout 76 live-action trailer from the sportsball game as Pete Hines talks MTX

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If you're not into fall football, you likely missed Bethsoft's big reveal: a live-action Fallout 76 trailer shown during the Saints vs. Vikings game....

EVE Evolved: Hands-on with EVE Online FPS Project Nova

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Cast your mind back to 2011 and you'll probably remember the insane hype that was building for DUST 514, CCP Games' ambitious console MMOFPS...

The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s free update offerings

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When Elder Scrolls Online's Update 20 arrives, it will bring with it a free base patch that promises to spice up the alliance war...

City of Titans shows off fan-made characters from New York Comic Con

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This year, City of Titans creator Missing Worlds Media took its would-be City of Heroes successor super-hero MMO to New York Comic Con, where...
The next few months, then.

Betawatch: Fallout 76 enters beta testing

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That's great, it starts with an NDA and no platform crossplay, Bethesda is not afraid. It's the end of the world as we know...

MMOs on the fringe: Warhawk, Spellbreak, Survival Heroes, and Vendetta Online

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Quick: What does a team shooter, a battle royale game, a MOBA, and an MMO have in common? Answer: They're all in this weird...

Worlds Adrift’s new tutorial video helps you get into the game

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Now that Worlds Adrift has set a course for PvE, the field has opened up for more people to enjoy this sky-faring sandbox. Considering...

Here’s how Elite Dangerous’ revamped states system function in Beyond – Chapter Four

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Frontier is continuing its info-dump of all the goodies coming in Elite Dangerous' Beyond - Chapter Four, which is currently in beta in prep...

Star Citizen’s latest Around the Verse video delves into designing CitizenCon’s demo mission

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Another week is behind us, which means it's time for another installment of Star Citizen's Around the Verse video series. This week, Chris Roberts...

You can now buy ships right from a showroom floor in Star Citizen’s alpha

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Heads-up to Star Citizen testers and watchers: A new patch to the 3.3 alpha rolled out yesterday, most notably adding functionality to Teach's Ship...

Rumor: Black Desert’s Xbox One open beta begins November 8

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Betcha forgot all about the fact that Black Desert was still slated for a console port! Welp, it's still happening, and in fact, it's...

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