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]

Dune Awakening publishes the first of its planned monthly newsletters

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If there's one complaint that could be leveraged against Dune: Awakening, it's that Funcom isn't exactly generous with information about the survival sandbox MMO,...

Victorian sandbox Nightingale banks on a big summer patch to turn its fortunes around

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While admitting "shortcomings" to Nightingale's initial launch, six months into early access Inflexion Games' devs say that they're "proud" of the title and yet...

PvPvE extraction RPG Dungeonborne adds a new Rogue skill, new skeletal weapons, and balance changes

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With about three weeks of early access under its belt, the PvPvE extraction RPG Dungeonborne has elected to start making some larger updates to...

Betawatch: Fellowship offers previews, Ultima Online New Legacy testing rolls on

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Whenever I hear the title Fellowship, I think about that video about how cats are praised for fellowship, which reminds me of the fact...

The Stream Team: Peeking in on the early access multiplayer life RPG Spellfarers

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Cozy huts. Witchy things. Farming. The game Spellfarers seems to tick a lot of boxes for MOP's Chris. Also, it's free-to-play. So all told,...

Brighter Shores posts a candy rope timeline of its development, asks players to not try to eat it

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Brighter Shores lead developer Andrew Gower is teasing us. Not with the game's mechanics itself - that happened last week - but with the...

Not So Massively: Stormgate was not ready for early access

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As the first of StarCraft II's spiritual successors to make it to a public launch, Stormgate will be releasing free to play for all...

Project Gorgon buffs Necromancers, preps mount cosmetics, and fixes AOE issues

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Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon dropped a fresh content-and-QOL patch this week in what devs characterized as a "nice well-rounded update" with a little bit...

Star Citizen takes a look at the space stations, asteroid bases, and FFA PvP of alpha 4.0’s Pyro system

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Star Citizen's weekly video series is now starting to look past alpha 3.24 and towards alpha 4.0, especially the addition of the game's second...

Solarpunk’s July progress report showcases additions to its building system

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Solarpunk is a survival crafting sandbox, so obviously building is going to be a major part of its core gameplay loop, but that feature...

Throne & Liberty testers murdered almost 30M NPCs during its open beta

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If you wanted to kill someone in PvP during Throne & Liberty's open beta test, you were using a dagger. The most common builds...

Dark and Darker Mobile begins its global beta test

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Do you have PvPvE dungeons on your phone? Well you do now, assuming you're among the people who were excited to begin Dark and...

Hands-on with Arc Games’ Fellowship, a new game trying to distill the MMORPG dungeon experience

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For many folks, one of the more entertaining aspects of playing an MMORPG is running through its dungeons (though of course that varies from...

Ashes of Creation previews its Bard class, announces Alpha Two’s release in October

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It's time to get violently musical in Ashes of Creation, or at least it will be when Alpha Two goes live because the Bard...

Raph Koster on designing and defining Stars Reach: ‘The Tragedy of the Commons is a lie’

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Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with a new dev blog on Stars Reach, and it's not about game design pillars this time; it's...

Crowdfunded multiplayer RTS Stormgate enters headstart today ahead of its August free-to-play launch

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If you're an MMORTS junkie as MOP's Tyler is, you've probably been watching Stormgate's development with great interest over the last few years. In...

Cozy multiplayer life sim Spellfarers conjures up an early access launch

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Grab your trusty spell books, phone a friend for support, and take a trip on your favorite flying broom (or high-speed internet line) right...

The Stream Team: Hopping in to a friend’s Palworld universe

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MOP's Chris is entering Palworld again, only this time he's not going to be starting from scratch or going through his own playthrough; he'll...

Dungeons and Dragons Online tests new level cap, quests, and feats for Magic of Myth Drannor

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Before anyone knows it, August 14th will be upon us, which means Dungeons and Dragons Online players will be able to get in to...

Palia’s latest update rewards gamers for building – and touring! – player houses

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As teased, Singularity 6 - now owned by Daybreak, which continues to boggle the mind - released Palia's Summer Serenade patch last night, with...