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]

Everbloom is a cozy co-op farming sim where players grow popcorn and raise chocolate milk cows

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Where does chocolate milk come from? Well if you're living in the world of whimsy that is the upcoming co-op farming sim Everbloom, it...

EverCraft Online dresses up for Halloween for its next weekend alpha October 18

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For the past little while we've kept an eye on EverCraft Online, a boxy voxel-based MMORPG that seeks to bring the genre back to...

NetEase officially announces mobile FPS Destiny Rising, with closed alpha starting November 1

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Last month insider reports from Bungie confirmed the existence of Destiny: Rising, a NetEase-developed mobile prequel of the multiplayer looter shooter where players control...

Not So Massively: Songs of Silence is a stylish blend of multiplayer 4X and auto-battler

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Considering I don't even do that it often, you'd be surprised how often I find interesting games just by scrolling through Steam's home page....

Viking colony survivalbox ASKA adds town militias and seasonal crops with the Farmers and Fighters update

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Are you a farmer or a fighter? Well luckily in the Viking-themed multiplayer colony management survivalbox ASKA you can be both, especially considering the...

Brighter Shores shares load testing and new screenshots as it marches towards early access

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If you're hearing the loud clanging of hammers and the rattling torquing of wrenches, that's just Brighter Shores doing a bit of tuning up...

Dune Awakening answers questions about PvP, console release plans, and a melee combat revamp

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Dune: Awakening has put forth another monthly newsletter - its second one since the initiative started in August even if this one leaped over...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen maps out its path to early access, now targeting the winter holiday season

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is once more calling attention to its early access release for December of this year - a fact that...

Dieselpunk PvPvE vehicular battler Sand offers up a PvP demo and seven minutes of raw gameplay footage

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Back in May we shared our first look at Sand, an in-development PvPvE sandbox primarily centered around Tramplers - massive robotic structures that act...
This is what I always wanted.

Betawatch: Brighter Shores is really launching in November after one last beta

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You should get your whites whiter and your shores brighter when Brighter Shores goes into testing in late October ahead of a full release...

Legacy: Steel and Sorcery is an multiplayer co-op ARPG made by ex-WoW devs

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If you, like us, make a hobby of following the various projects that former World of Warcraft devs are creating, then you might be...

Pax Dei outlines adjustments to its landscape, enemies, and PvE progression in its next patch

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Earlier this week Pax Dei confirmed that its next major update will be changing the game's world in a rather literal sense with an...

Star Wars The Old Republic readies public testing of its next lair boss and dynamic events system soon

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Star Wars: The Old Republic game director Eric Musco has some fresh details about the game's incoming Game Update 7.6: Galactic Threads patch -...

New World’s latest Aeternum trailer splices cutscenes into gameplay to sell the experience

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Does anyone remember back in 2021 when Amazon's media saturation for the launch of New World was insane? I sure do! I can't say...

Albion Online is offering big gold raffles for players who test Horizons this morning

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If you're curious about Albion Online's upcoming Horizons update and want to take a peek ahead of time, today is your day, as Sandbox...

ArcheAge Chronicles video highlights its acrobatic combat and vast persistent online world

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A couple of weeks ago XLGames and Kakao Games showed off a rebranded and revised ArcheAge 2, with the name of ArcheAge Chronicles and...

Medieval MMO Anvil Empires introduces cargo ships to cross the ocean blue

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When medieval sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires greatly expanded its in-development world map into several landmasses this past August, it created a new problem for...

Colony sandbox MMO SEED is in ‘pre-release,’ plans October 24 test run

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The abrupt and bizarre death of colony sandbox and "society simulator" SEED in 2022 was only topped by its abrupt resurrection and return of...

EVE Online reveals Revenant expansion, EVE Frontier wraps up fourth test, EVE Vanguard plans ‘biggest update yet’

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Who's ready for a big announcement from EVE Online? CCP Games revealed EVE's next expansion, Revenant, this afternoon. It's set to launch November 12th. "It...

Landing Party is a new mobile alternate reality RPG from an old-school Turbine founder

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Old salts of MMORPGs are likely familiar with the name of Johnny Monsarrat. He effectively had a hand in creating the genre with Asheron's...