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]

Fortnite devs apologize for unintended base demolition

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When money is put down on the counter and the word "launch" is used, it doesn't matter if you say your game is in...

Camelot Unchained will invite beta 1 backers to big bot battle testing next week

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In the future, alpha testers (and everyone else) will all be fully replaced by robots, no doubt. But right now, Camelot Unchained is putting...

The Stream Team: Starting fresh on a procedurally generated ARK

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Massively OP's MJ has switched her ARK server map to a new procedurally generated one, and now she's trying to start a new life...

Wild West Online denies that its alpha has been delayed

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Hey, cowboys and cowgirls. When did you think alpha was going to begin for Wild West Online? You're wrong, apparently. 612 Games broke its recent...

The Stream Team: City life in Conan Exiles

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Before the Conan Exiles' new biome launches in two weeks, Massively OP's MJ wants to make sure she has explored everywhere. And the one...
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Betawatch: Delays always win (August 4, 2017)

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We realize that some of our readers are a bit younger, so we'd like to introduce you to a universal truism of life: Delays...

Project Gorgon flips the switch to a 64-bit client

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If you hear a high-pitched hum coming from somewhere in the heartland of America, pay it no attention. It's just Project Gorgon drawing immense...

Citadel: Forged With Fire asks players to vote on over 20 ideas for future content

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With a week of early access under its belt, Citadel: Forged With Fire and its team are starting to figure out what works, what...

Sea of Thieves devs go on a riddle quest

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Why do we get the feeling that a majority of Sea of Thieves' group gameplay will be devoted to players barking at each other...

Star Citizen’s Around the Verse format gets a shake-up ahead of the 3.0 alpha

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Cloud Imperium's Chris Roberts has taken the opening segment of this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse episode to personally address the reasons behind...

Shroud of the Avatar: Equity crowdfunding passes $500K, studio plans monthly telethons

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Shroud of the Avatar's equity crowdfunding venture has gone rather well: Portalarium declared last night that it has "exceeded SeedInvest target and  now...

Survivalbox roundup: Hellion’s new servers, Life is Feudal beta stories, and Astroneer plunders planets for profit

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It's time for a good dose of survivalbox news! Let's start with Hellion, which deployed new official servers in several regions across the world...

AdventureQuest 3D cracks open its deadly bank, teases seven incoming classes

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Leave it to AdventureQuest 3D to turn one of the safest and most innocuous places in MMOs into a deadly struggle to the death....

Enter to win a Neverwinter Ash Lion mount for PC from PWE and Massively OP

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To celebrate the arrival of Tomb of Annihilation for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 50 Ash Lion mount keys to give away to our...
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Crowfall adds a targeting reticle to object interaction

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Interacting with objects is a pretty core part of playing Crowfall. Some of these interactions are rather straightforward, like interacting with an arrow when...

Derek Smart’s Line of Defense brings on secondary team for console version

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Derek Smart's MMO Line of Defense has a progress update this week covering the state of the game's build. A new patch is on...
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GTAO profits are soaring, but we still don’t know whether Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC

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It's still not a sure thing that Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC. During its recent earnings call, Rockstar parent company Take Two heaped...

Conan Exiles announces The Frozen North expansion coming August 16

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Just because they aren't known for wearing shirts doesn't mean that barbarians mind a little cold now and then. Rugged and bloodthirsty player fighters will...

Dean Hall’s Stationeers don’t want no scrubs

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DayZ's Dean Hall says his new sci-fi survivalbox Stationeers is launching early access in September, and he isn't sugarcoating the game's difficulty. You might remember...

Mobile MMOs: Pokemon Go’s curfew, Logres’ launch, and spinoffs for Aion and TERA

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By chance, we had a bunch of easily combinable mobile MMO news stories waiting to be written this morning, so let's get to them...

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