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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Betawatch: Age of Water and Bellwright enter early access

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For some reason we keep letting games enter early access, and this week saw two more hit that stage of release, with both Age...

The Stream Team: Heading into Nightingale’s multiplayer Watch hub

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MOP's Chris has come pretty far in his climb through Nightingale. After lots of crafting and hunting and trying to find one tree beast,...

MMO shooter Line of Defense confirms a switch to UE5, lets former early access buyers set up private servers

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It's been almost another four years since Derek Smart last talked about his efforts to resurrect the MMO shooter Line of Defense, but this...

Star Citizen brings new race tracks and a first look at engineering to alpha 3.23’s Arena Commander

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While many of the reveals shared by Star Citizen for alpha 3.23 have been focused on the persistent universe portion of the game, the...

Dune Awakening teases its movable, taxable, base-buildy but cozy player housing

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Fans of Funcom's Conan Exiles will eagerly point to the game's building as one of its strongest features, so it's no surprise that the...

V Rising details gameplay waiting in the Ruins of Mortium, Valheim continues its Ashlands test

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This is either a tale of two games that start with the letter V, two games that are working on new zones, or two...

Kickstarted MMORPG-turned-TCG Genfanad gives up, will sunset April 30

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ArcheAge isn't the only MMORPG announcing a sunset this week: Kickstarter success Genfanad is apparently closing its doors too. Genfanad is a browser-based nostalgia-driven indie...

Seafaring survival MMO Age of Water hits Steam early access, addresses premium perks

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After a week-long false start, publisher Gaijin Entertainment and developer Three Whales Studio have brought Age of Water into the roiling and (arguably) crowded...

Pax Dei testing wrestles with stability and bugs, Abyss testing adds refinements and dragon attacks

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It's been a busy time for the developing sandbox MMORPGs of Pax Dei and Abyss, as both games entered into their respective alphas this...
Hopefully this leads to better things.

The Wagadu Chronicles has released its Dungeons & Dragons 5E-compatible tabletop rulebook

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You may or may not feel that The Wagadu Chronicles as it currently exists in its playable state is delivering on its premise. We're...

Albion Online has kicked off early headstart for its new European server – no more wipes

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There was a bit of a hiccup in getting it off the ground this morning, but it's here now: Albion Online's Albion Europe server...

Multiplayer survival shooter Vigor announces plans for a Steam early access launch in May

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Do you remember Vigor? It's a multiplayer shooter from Bohemia Interactive set in a post-war 1991 Norway where players have to scrounge, survive, and......

Palia’s spring-themed update adds new friendship quests, decor, seeds, and ammo pouches today

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Palia's first beta update since its confusing Steam launch and the layoff of more than a third of its team is here today, complete...

Bellwright brings its brutal medieval world of multiplayer survival to Steam early access

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Will the second verse be different different from the first for developer Donkey Crew -- and more importantly for those who buy in to...
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Nightingale’s 0.2 update goes live this afternoon with new weapons and crafting QOL

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It's patch day for Nightingale: Tencent-owned Inflexion's early access multiplayer survivalbox is rolling into Update 0.2 at noon EDT today following maintenance. While full patch...

Palworld CEO addresses Tencent-backed ‘clone game’ Auroria and similar Chinese mobile titles

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Pocket Pair CEO Takuro Mizobe is seeing what having the shoe on the other foot feels like, as he has apparently taken notice of...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen talks pre-alpha Season 3’s new region and future testing content plans

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With Season 2 of pre-alpha for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen winding forward to its final weeks, the devs at Visionary Realms are now...

Valheim brings the Ashlands update to its public test server, confirms the game’s nearly full release

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After three years in early access and over a year since the update was first announced, the Viking costumed survival sandbox Valheim is finally...

Dune Awakening explains why ‘spice is power’ for this upcoming survival MMO

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Even those most tangentially aware of the Dune franchise are aware that everyone in that setting is pretty crazy about spice. This resource fuels...

Star Citizen says alpha 3.23’s personal hangars would have made the game ‘literally unplayable’

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This past weekend, we reported on the news that Star Citizen had to delay the addition of personal hangars and other related gameplay elements...

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