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]

Worlds Adrift discovers a bird-obsessed culture

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With airships and an Indiana Jones attitude, a large part of Worlds Adrift's gameplay will be on exploration of the unknown. After all, the...

Sea of Thieves trailer dares you to ‘be more pirate’

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All other studios, it's time to pack it in: Sea of Thieves has won the Trailer Olympics, at least for 2017. In Rare's newest video,...

PvE Zombie MMO Dead Maze has landed on Steam in closed beta

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I think we've officially passed the zombie craze in online games, or at least it feels that way to me as new zombie games...

Forsaken Legends is not dead, but it is downsizing from an MMORPG

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It has been a very long time since we have heard anything out of the indie team behind Forsaken Legends, an ambitious procedural sandbox...
Oh dear.

Star Wars Battlefront 2: The AMA, Wall Street, and the Belgian gambling commission

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In case you ever wanted to sniff the distinct scent of internet dumpster fire, you probably should've gone to the Star Wars Battlefront II...
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Crowfall delays soft launch until 2018

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A lot of things have changed for Crowfall over the past year, several of them being pretty darn significant. Decoupling races and classes alone...

The Stream Team: Robbing banks and raiding campsites in Wild West Online’s early access launch

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In her first run through Wild West Online's Technical Alpha 1, Massively OP's MJ mined herself some gold and successfully made it back to...

Conan Exiles update scrubs out dupe bugs as servers are wiped

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By Crom, Conan Exiles is under attack by dupe bugs! Funcom hurried to push Update 31 live yesterday to deal with the issue and...

Shroud of the Avatar entices players to complete survey with in-game rewards

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Portalarium and Travian Games are looking for useful feedback for Shroud of the Avatar -- and they are not shy in their approach to...

Pantheon devs meet up at TwitchCon and make a convert

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It took a convention to bring together a development team. Visionary Realms shared in its November newsletter that many of Pantheon's team members -- some...
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Yeehaw, Wild West Online’s early access alpha has begun

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The Wild West Online early access alpha has officially begun, at least if you shelled out for the higher tiers of founder pack. According...

Harry Potter ARG won’t drag down Pokemon Go’s development, Niantic says

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Now that we're all waving around sticks and shouting garbled Latin in preparation for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, it is entirely possible that players...

World of Warcraft Classic CMs talk class balance while the forums melt down

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It's a really weird and interesting time to be a World of Warcraft fan. While the announcement of WoW Classic has revitalized discussion about...

Crowfall opens up dozens of race and class combos

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It's a good time to be a Crowfall pre-alpha tester. The select elite are being treated to a new build today that adds in all...

Hyper Universe triggers a free testing weekend, brings in Bruce Lee’s stunt double

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Players seeking a different twist on the familiar MOBA format might want to take a look at Hyper Universe. This slightly crazy game pulls...

Wild Terra compensates players for server issues, adds tutorial and dailies

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Emerging from a rough stretch of server issues, Wild Terra has apologized to its testers and offered to make it up to them with...
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Citadel: Forged with Fire shows off its upcoming boss dungeons

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The next big expansion for Citadel: Forged with Fire is adding... dungeons. With bosses in them. Boss dungeons, if you will. Perhaps it's not...

Dark and Light wipes chaos servers to add house competition

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If you are not acquainted with Dark and Light's chaos servers, let us refresh your memory. These shards have a heavy PvP focus with...

Project TL replaces Lineage Eternal’s website

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So... it looks like NCsoft is really sticking with the "Project TL" name, huh? The game developer replaced the old Lineage Eternal site with...

Blink and you might have missed Project Gorgon’s brand-new user interface

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After weeks if not months of the studio talking about it, Project Gorgon's brand-new user interface finally arrived. And then it promptly left again. In...

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