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]

Dogma: Eternal Night will let you order around your own mortal minions

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After a protracted period of self-induced silence, the Dogma: Eternal Night team has slipped out of the shadows to whisper dark tales of its...

Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire’s huge new in-game map and the promise of PvP

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There's a joke on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit that you don't need to read anything about the game -- you just wait for...

Snail releases trailer for PixArk, its Minecraft-ARK Survival Evolved mashup

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What's that squishy sound? Oh yeah, it's the sound of an IP being milked. I'm talking about Snail Games' new Minecraft clone PixArk, which...

The Exiled invites you to test its limited-lives ‘survival mode’ for a free month

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As The Exiled (formerly Das Tal) struggles to attract a large enough audience to sustain the game's development and operation, the team turns to...
Like this, with cast bars.

Snail’s sandbox Dark and Light demos dark and light magic

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Still on the fence about picking up the resurrected Dark and Light? Maybe today's video entry will entice you. It's all about the game's...

The Stream Team: Base building in Fortnite

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When Massively OP's MJ first tried Fortnite, she made it through the tutorial enough to build and defend a little base. Now she wants...
There is a metaphor here somewhere.

Shroud of the Avatar raised almost $700K from investors, $67.5K from donors last night

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Shroud of the Avatar's equity crowdfunding campaign on SeedInvest has come to a close, with 518 investors having raised just shy of $700,000 in...

Lineage Eternal delayed again, Guild Wars 2 mobile game teased

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Steparu is reporting on a Korean-language piece today that suggests Lineage Eternal is once again in do-over mode. According to the report, NCsoft has gutted...

LawBreakers officially launches today; here’s the new ‘Skilled AF’ trailer

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The Nexon-backed, Cliff Bleszinski-led online shooter LawBreakers is finally live today on both PC (Steam) and PlayStation 4. The game is just shy of...

Raze: Dungeon Arena packs in over 60 dungeons onto your mobile device

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Need a quick fix of Diablo-style action on your mobile device? Hong Kong Publisher Wonder Game has a solution for that coming this fall!...

Crowfall tests an itty-bitty teeny-weeny campaign map

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Judge not Crowfall by its pre-alpha size, will you? Let's hope not, because for the sake of testing the team is cramming players together in...
Oh my gosh, did they try.

LawBreakers muses on the competitive shooter market ahead of launch tomorrow

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Be honest: Would you even know what LawBreakers is if it weren't for the fact that CliffyB is attached to it? Nexon and Boss...

The Stream Team: Very Venus adventures in Warframe

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Earth is so last month! Massively OP's MJ has moved on to Venus in her Warframe adventures, and now she needs to complete a...

Indie sandbox MMO Tree of Life officially launches on August 17, won’t include PvE-only servers

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Here comes another MMO emerging from early access! We're talking about Korean sandbox import Tree of Life, which hit beta last year following a...

ARK: Survival Evolved’s August patches introduce otters, new weapons, and new biomes

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So remember back in May when Studio Wildcard intimated it'd be holding off on new ARK: Survival Evolved creatures after that May patch so...
All good!

Guild Wars 2: Loot rumors, RNG grumblings, character boosters, and map spoilers

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Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire detail rumors are swirling as info (and disinfo) is trickling back from the test environment. Here's a few of...

Conan Exiles developers dive deep into The Frozen North expansion

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Never before have we seen players so eager to contract frostbite in the middle of summer as we are with the situation that's going...
Houses aren't that great, don't hoboshame me.

Dark and Light patch serves a demolition notice to some players

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A major update to Dark and Light today might serve as an eviction notice for some players' homes based on where they placed them....

Shroud of the Avatar profiles new zones, hits $600K in SeedInvest round

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter has plenty of business business business, but the highlights are always the developers' diaries on various locations and...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen 3.0 progress report, Albion Online DDOSed after RMT crackdown (August 5, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen posted its monthly studio report along with its updated 3.0 production report as it works on the...

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