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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Last Oasis marks rising player counts and new gameplay additions during its Season 6 testing

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Readers may remember that the all-but-abandoned survival sandbox MMO Last Oasis was roused back from its slumber by developer Donkey Crew at the latter...
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Steel Hunters is live now in early access with a ‘Mostly Negative’ review score on Steam

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Here's the good news for people interested in Steel Hunters in early access: The game is free-to-play, even now, so if you just want...

Astroneer studio announces Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, coming in 2026

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Astroneer fans, a whole new galaxy is about to open up to you, as System Era Softworks has officially announced the next game in...

Fractured Online’s new studio is now ‘eight people strong’ as devs talk background update efforts

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Yes, having eight developers working on the slowly rebuilding Fractured Online is not a lot, but considering this game had three unpaid workers at...

Star Citizen’s $10M pledge haul in March caps off a first quarter YoY funding increase for 2025

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Yet again, the unfinished alpha spaceship sandbox Star Citizen continues to break crowdfunding records despite its long years in early development: CIG's sci-fi magnum...

Choose My Adventure: A sense of confusion and curiosity mark the return to Nightingale

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It's pretty frequently noted by this point that when I return to a game, I tend to do so with a little bit of...

Bamco’s Elden Ring Nightreign multiplayer survival game is launching May 30

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At the top of the year, we got a first look at Elden Ring Nightreign, a multiplayer co-op "survival adventure" spin-off of the Elden...

Multiplayer survivalbox Echoes of Elysium launches its airship creation tool for free on Steam

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As promised, Echoes of Elysium - the Snail Games-pubbed multiplayer survival box from Loric Games - officially launched its airship builder tool last night...

Dune Awakening discusses head start, guild size, soloing, and the consequences of death

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Did you not have two hours to yourself to sit and watch Dune: Awakening's recent livestream? Don't worry because Funcom has elected to cut...
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Palworld’s April Fools dating sim is… real?

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Remember last year when Palworld teased everyone with the prospect of a dating sim based on Palworld? It was a great gag. A+ joke. Also...

Clash of Adventurers is a free-to-play sandbox MMORPG in pre-alpha development with all the trimmings

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There's something to be said about splashy introductions being tossed aside for succinct and forthright descriptions, and that most certainly is the first impression...

Soulframe talks about pre-alpha updates while being distracted by live animals

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What do chinchillas, bunnies, chickens, and Soulframe have to do with each other? They were all brought together for the game's latest dev stream...

‘Less AI more game content’: Defiance’s new operators prep a new video and Saturday stress test

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Last week, Fawkes Games put out a trailer for Defiance hyping up its return. When we ran it, you may have noticed the trailer...

RuneScape Dragonwilds is Jagex’s new co-op survival game, coming to early access this spring

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Jagex has officially announced another game in the RuneScape franchise: RuneScape Dragonwilds. Before you get too excited, it's not a new MMORPG; it's an...

City of Titans’ Q1 update heralds progress on Unreal 5.5 upgrade, landscapes, and NPCs

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Just ahead of the new year, Kickstarted superhero MMORPG City of Titans resurfaced from a year of tragedy and mourning to post a development...

Magic to Master has arrived to Steam early access with a meager player headcount and scathing user reviews

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We'd forgive our readers if they collectively agreed to purge Magic to Master from their memory, but we have a duty to report that,...
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Blue Protocol’s mobile remake, Star Resonance, continues testing in China

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Massively OP's biggest disappointment of 2024, the premature cancelation of Blue Protocol, isn't about to be reversed by the development of a mobile remake...

Kakao’s PC/mobile MMO Odin Valhalla Rising shares a new trailer ahead of April 3 pre-registration

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Over the past five years and change, we've been keeping tabs on Odin: Valhalla Rising, a UE4-powered MMORPG from developer Lionheart Studio and publisher...
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Star Wars The Old Republic begins public testing of character facial updates, targets boss fight test for April

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Are you ready to try on a new look in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Unfortunately this isn't to suggest that there are some...

Ashes of Creation provides a look at its first version of naval gameplay in latest video

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The latest Alpha Two build for Ashes of Creation wasn't only about bringing the stab-happy Rogue class; it's also offering up the very first...