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 raked in higher profits over the month of June and the second quarter

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One might suspect that the month of May would have been a big one for Star Citizen's piggy bank owing to the Invictus event...

Chinese Star Citizen fan attempts to sound an alarm over a resolved Bar Citizen ticket price fiasco

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Followers of Star Citizen are likely very familiar with the Bar Citizen community meet-ups that run every year. These free player-run events allow fans...

BitCraft adds $20 supporter pack guaranteeing access to all future playtesting

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We're just a week away from BitCraft's second alpha, and developer Clockwork Labs has updated the account hub in preparation for the event. Specifically,...
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Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch

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File this one under "did not see this coming in a million years but also not sad about it whatsoever": Daybreak has acquired Palia...

Starbase begins public testing of warp travel, universe map feature, and a station builder

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Back in April, we noted a sudden return from radio silence for the sci-fi building sandbox Starbase, which at the time talked up several...

UK employment tribunal says Star Citizen studio discriminated against autistic employee

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While we recognize that this monetary ruling is barely a bug bite to the wrist of Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, we'll take...

Corepunk’s third alpha test arrives this week with a fully voiced pilot episode

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A third round of alpha testing for the genre blended Corepunk kicks off this week, starting on Monday July 1st and running through Sunday,...

Bellwright continues quality-of-life updates for structures, outpost deliveries, villagers, and quests

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"We've had one, yes. What about second June Update?" That's the question posed by Bellwright studio Donkey Crew ahead of what is indeed its...

Kickstarted MMO Fractured Online to fully launch on July 24th

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While an official launch date is cause for celebration under normal circumstances, it seems doubly so for the rough road that MMO sandbox Fractured...
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Betawatch: Bree said if I don’t talk about Stars Reach my cats are gonna get it

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No, really, I am not kidding. Bree has been freaking out nonstop since she found out literally anything about Stars Reach. It is all...

Survivalbox Osiris New Dawn, now back on Steam, is testing a new planet and space station realism

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Osiris New Dawn has been one of the more puzzling development stories we've covered over the last few years, owing almost entirely to the...

Soulframe discusses new weapons, enemies, and zone activities coming in its next testing round

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Digital Extremes' Soulframe is moving forward with what it calls its "prelude" releases, which are basically test builds for players to try out. In...

Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2

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It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...

Guild Wars 2’s land spears beta is officially underway – even for F2P accounts

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As promised, Guild Wars 2 is offering MMORPG players who maybe aren't about to be preoccupied with something else all weekend a taste of...

MOBA-like battle royale Battle Crush begins its free-to-play early access to scathing Steam reviews

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What do you get when you take shrunken mythological heroes as well as a couple of random mascots and pit them against one another...

Mortal Online 2 begins testing of a new mastery system on PTR

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What do you do when you've climbed the top of the clade leveling mountain in Mortal Online 2? You find a new peak to...

Dungeons and Dragons Online begins public testing of its Magic of Myth Drannor expansion

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Does the setting of Myth Drannor fill you with intense levels of glee? Then you're the kind of Dungeons and Dragons Online player who...
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Once Human claims to have taken the ‘Triple Crown’ on Steam with wishlist numbers and demo players

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Can you win at being on Steam? If you ask NetEase, the answer is not only "yes," but it's also followed up with, "and...

First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox

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Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...

SGF 2024: Hands-on with The First Descendant, plus a chat with the Nexon devs

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You thought our Summer Game Fest coverage was over, didn't you? Well, in all fairness, Nexon not only brought The First Descendant to SGF but provided...