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]

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Lynked: Banner of the Spark delays some of its planned winter update features to 2025

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Sometimes you bite off a little more than you can chew. For the vast majority of people, doing so doesn't really have many negative...

Palworld’s Feybreak update brings a new island, materials, Pals, and the first part of a Terraria crossover

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Palworld fans are getting their early Christmas present as promised today, as the critter catching survival sandbox has unleashed its massive Feybreak update, which...

Greg Street talks about Project Ghost’s central city and its interplay with classes and missions

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Fantastic Pixel Castle's Greg Street decided this past weekend to waft out a random Twitter thread about his developing MMO project Ghost, and once...

Pax Dei confirms arrival of an in-game prayer system in January, along with GeForce Now and EGS releases

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How do you get miraculous help in Pax Dei? Well, you buy it with in-game gold, apparently. You also have to wait until January...

Make My MMO: Pantheon’s early access, Ship of Heroes’ launch window, Star Citizen’s alpha 4.0

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Welcome back to Make My MMO - technically our last edition before the turn of the year, though next week we're doing a full...

Ashes of Creation previews new dungeon, new races, and player housing added in Alpha Two phase two

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It's a sequel to a sequel to an alpha! OK, not really, but Ashes of Creation is indeed moving forward to phase two of...
Sure.

Betawatch: SWTOR’s Mac test, Stars Reach’s preview, Steel Hunter’s beta weekend

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Some weeks, everyone is going whole-hog on beta developments. And some weeks you have two back-to-back holidays coming up so everyone decides "eh, let's...

Dune Awakening shares closed beta stats and answers questions about PvP death and Landsraad benefits

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The final Dune: Awakening newsletter for this year is online, and as one might expect, it's mostly a retrospective of the year that was...

The Stream Team: Cozy winter vibin’ in the Holiday Homestead of Palia

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It's cold. It's winter. It's almost time for the holidays proper. That's got MOP's Chris feeling some kind of way for this afternoon's stream,...

There’s still no ETA for the return of Corepunk’s servers, but there are test shards up now

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We probably don't need to reiterate what dreadfully bad luck it is to have your early access MMORPG offline the whole week before Christmas,...

Star Citizen alpha 4.0 releases as a ‘preview’ version that runs parallel to the ongoing alpha 3.24.3

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CIG promised over and over that Star Citizen would get its alpha 4.0 release before the end of this year, and technically speaking, it...

Ghost promises it’s an MMO and not a lobby title, discusses wider gameplay and design plans

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With the Ghost MMO project wrapping up its development in 2024, it's time once again for the devs at Fantastic Pixel Castle to come...

Once Human 2025 roadmap promises Visional Wheel system, new scenarios, and mobile launch

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NetEase-owned Starry Studio looks to have some big plans for the survival MMO Once Human in 2025. That's the message being offered from the...
Yay?

Ashes of Creation starts up the second phase of Alpha Two this weekend

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So how glorious are you feeling these days? We know that Ashes of Creation loves to call its community glorious, and this glorious Friday...

Monsters & Memories announces plans for an eight-hour stress test December 21

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Are you busy this Saturday, December 21st, by any chance? Would you like to help Monsters & Memories try to set its servers on...

Digital Extremes delays Soulframe’s eighth prelude test phase into 2025

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Remember earlier this month when Digital Extremes was busily adding thousands of news testers to Soulframe's "preludes" test phases, with an eye toward a...

Pax Dei plans another ‘cleaning session’ to wash away inactive build plots tomorrow morning

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If you've been away from Pax Dei for a while but were keen on coming back at some time later, then this alert is...
Here's your new job.

Nightingale’s winter update adds player-hosted servers, resource automation, and a new winter event

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Technically, the newest update to Nightingale offers resource automation, but it's not really automated in the traditional sense. It's just telling estate residents to...

Corepunk’s servers have been offline for nearly three days as a result of database and infrastructure issues

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This week has been a rough one for those who were hoping to play Corepunk, as an attempt by Artificial Core to put out...

Co-op skyship survivalbox Echoes of Elysium will be published by Snail Games

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Remember Echoes of Elysium, the multiplayer survivalbox coming from Loric Games? It's one of multiple co-op skyship-themed sandboxes we've been watching for the last few...