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]

Star Citizen shows off new character creation choices and successfully crams dozens of players into a tram

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As one might expect, Star Citizen is heads-down focusing on the arrival of CitizenCon (and stealing developers' weekends to do it), which basically means...

Project Friendship, Spry Fox’s new cozy MMO, just opened tester signups

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Way back in 2021, we first caught wind that indie developer Spry Fox was hiring for a new "non-violent" MMO, essentially a cozy game....

Here’s how New World’s PvP scene is improving with Aeternum next week

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If New World's PvP layout was any kind of draw for or bar to your enjoyment of the game, you're going to want to...

Pax Dei previews a journal feature ahead of a map geography revamp

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Are you having trouble keeping track of things in Pax Dei? Then you need a journal, and soon developer Mainframe Industries will be handing...

Kickstarted survival sandbox Fractured Veil is sunsetting this week, having never left early access

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I'm sorry to report today that survivalbox Fractured Veil is throwing in the towel. "Today we’ve made the tough decision to stop development on Fracture...

Game dev accuses Fntastic of asset flipping to create its upcoming co-op platformer Escape Factory

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At the end of September, we reported on the return of The Day Before developer Fntastic to game dev and Kickstarter with its debut...

Stars Reach’s skill tree system seeks to let players ‘gain experience by being useful’

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The dev blogs from Stars Reach that highlight game features continue to roll forth, and the latest one touches on a topic that is...
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Greg Street’s Fantastic Pixel Castle recaps Project Ghost’s classical and random zone testing

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It probably will not stun you that the team at Fantastic Pixel Castle is rather pleased about how its third prototype milestone for Ghost...
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Betawatch: Star Citizen crunching like it’s 2010

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Remember last week how I mentioned that I couldn't muster much in the way of anger toward Throne & Liberty having its whole paid...

Multiplayer co-op folk legend RPG Ravenswatch has launched

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Looking for a more bite-sized Diablo experience with a bit of imagination slathered on top? There's a newly launched  player in town called Ravenswatch...

Nightingale devs host a Realms Rebuilt postmortem and outline future update plans

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Now that Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt update has been out in the wild for a few weeks, Inflexion Games is taking a moment to process...

New World’s latest Aeternum trailer is a primer for the MMORPG’s gameplay arc

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The avalanche of New World videos ahead of the launch of Aeternum later this month just keeps on rumbling down the hill, as this...

New World plans a three-week fresh-start crossplay event when Aeternum launches

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Amazon is pulling out all the stops on its New World Aeternum launch on October 15th. Last night, the studio partially detailed its plans...

Star Citizen devs are being forced into mandatory unpaid overtime in order to make CitizenCon happen

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While Star Citizen is making sure it keeps excitement up for CitizenCon 2024, behind the scenes the devs at CIG are being crunched to...
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Elephants were the real hero of The Quinfall’s third closed beta

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What happened in the third beta for The Quinfall? A lot of people on war elephants and a lot of people fighting in fields,...

Temtem Swarm shares trivia from its recent beta test, confirms a Steam Next Fest demo October 14

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Were you among those who were kicking the tires of the co-op bullet hell Temtem: Swarm, or did you happen to miss out on...
These are where the spirits come from.

Nightingale fixes issues include with pots, boss AI, and NPC dialogue

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So apparently pots and garden plots in Nightingale were accidentally being possessed by a thousand angry vengeful plant spirits. That's the official explanation in...

New World’s Aeternum launch trailer shows the MMORPG character journey – backward

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We may be two weeks out from launch, but MMORPG New World has dropped its Aeternum launch trailer this afternoon anyhow. And the framing...

EverQuest’s 31st expansion, The Outer Brood, launches in December

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With EverQuest II's end-of-the-year expansion already in testing and ready for preorders, you had to figure that Classic EverQuest wouldn't be far behind, and...

Blizzard begins the countdown for Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred

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I sure hope you're ready for a huge influx of Diablo IV info because Blizzard absolutely dumped a ton of previews and details for...