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]

Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff introduces weapon enhancing and treasure hunting in latest updates

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The cubic and cutesy multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff has been evolving a fair bit over the course of its early access...

Ghost MMO devs discuss building an MMO, wrestling tech, and procedural generation in latest podcast

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Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and the devs at Fantastic Pixel Castle continue to assemble on Street's podcast to discuss the creation of the Ghost MMO...
yay sure

Shroud of the Avatar devs form new studio to make AI-generated roguelike battle royale Project Rise

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If you thought that the waters surrounding some of Shroud of the Avatar's bigwigs weren't muddy before now, things are potentially about to get...

The Quinfall begins taking names for its second closed beta test, reaffirms it will have no NDA

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The Quinfall has been courting controversy ever since it was first announced, with grandiose claims that caused gamers to be immediately suspicious, statements about...
TRAIN

Book of Travels’ Q&A covers death and mounts – but not when it’s leaving early access

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Book of Travels has had a long and winding path through its early access through its just over two-year journey, so it would stand...

Tencent’s Tarisland begins its next round of player testing… in China

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The next phase of Tarisland's testing has begun overseas as Tencent announced on Discord that the Chinese test is now underway. As part of this...

Star Citizen provides a close look at character creator updates arriving in alpha 3.23

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Character creation in Star Citizen right now is, frankly, awful - a relic of the game's early beginnings that involve a weird secondary molding...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Evil v Evil, Blood Strike, Solium Infernum

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Welcome back to another roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games that you've (probably) never heard of and we need to at least...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained and Star Citizen eye 1.0 launches

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It's been a fairly dramatic couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs! Top of the pile is surely the fact that Kickstarted MMORPG Camelot Unchained...

Palworld previews a new raid boss coming with its next update

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Palworld already has boss monsters you can fight in the field as well as boss fights in certain towers, but the survival sandbox's next...
Yay, I guess? Who cares.

Betawatch: MultiVersus rises from its grave

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Everyone was a little suspicious when MultiVersus shut down and promised it would be back again some day, since we were all pretty sure...

TitanQuest 2 teases handcrafted gameworld and its unique twist on Sparta

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You know, until this press release dropped in my inbox, I had completely forgotten that Titan Quest 2 was in development, which is great...

Multiplayer hide-and-seek game Midnight Ghost Hunt makes its full release March 21

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Back in 2022 we threw a spotlight on Midnight Ghost Hunt, a multiplayer 4v4 game of hide-and-seek in the same vein as Prop Hunt...

Enshrouded’s 2024 roadmap promises dungeons, farming, functioning chairs, biomes, and water

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When it comes to adding updates to a survival sandbox (or any MMO/multiplayer game), it's generally a good idea to cast a wide net....

The Stream Team: Making a quick jaunt into Final Stand Ragnarok

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MOP's Chris is off to face Ragnarok. More specifically, he's off to face Final Stand Ragnarok to take his first-ever look at this early...

Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts confirms development is moving to a full 1.0 release

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Last week, one of the developers of Star Citizen made what looked like a passing few references to "SC 1.0" that seemed to suggest...

Nightingale expounds on its roadmap and why the offline mode is a medium-term project

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Nightingale has spent the better part of the week focused on clean-up after a bug ate player homes last weekend, but now it's releasing...

Vindictus’ sequel, Defying Fate, has kicked off its pre-alpha test phase

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The storied Vindictus franchise enters into a new era this week as its action RPG sequel, Vindictus: Defying Fate, started pre-alpha testing. Nexon announced that...

Camelot Unchained prequel Final Stand Ragnarok launches into early access – again – today

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As we noted earlier this week, the Camelot Unchained spinoff game Final Stand Ragnarok is launching today into its most formal early access yet....

Palia has racked up 3 million players since hitting open beta last summer

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It's not every day that we get cold hard numbers from a games studio, but Singularity 6 is providing a very large one today:...

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