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]

Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s alpha 2, Dual Universe’s player hosting

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It's been an interesting summer for crowdfunded MMOs. Ashes of Creation has hit August running, first with a preview of the Bard class, then...

Dungeonborne adds a 3v3 PvP mode, new class skill, and a new gear tier in latest update

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The updates keep on a-comin' for the free-to-play PvPvE extraction RPG Dungeonborne, which has a new patch out this week that introduces some new...

Ashes of Creation’s year-long NDA-free Alpha Two starts October 25

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In the Ashes of Creation community, the phrase "Alpha Two" almost has a hallowed significance to it due to how long it's been in...
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Betawatch: Throne & Liberty’s latest delay, New World’s crossplay beta

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Players who were super hype about Throne & Liberty releasing very soon are going to need to wait a little longer, as the game...

Pax Dei on surviving the sandbox as a solo player: ‘Playing solo does not mean playing alone’

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So here's the tricky thing about MMORPGs: Their greatest strength lies in their massively multiplayer nature, and yet sometimes we just don't want to...

Amazon and NCsoft delay Throne and Liberty to October 1 for more progression retooling

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Hope you didn't have your heart set on a September 17th launch for Throne and Liberty because Amazon and NCsoft just delayed it again....

Ship of Heroes’ beta now has 30 costume auras for player customization

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Like a lot of folks, I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with particle effects. On my superhero toons, I love them; they're...

Star Citizen kicks off a week-long free fly event and previews Pyro’s non-combat gameplay

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Star Citizen is celebrating its ships once again and using that love of internet spacecraft to pitch the game to new money players. The...

Nightingale previews Realms Rebuilt’s story progression and revamped main campaign

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Last week, Tencent's Inflexion Games took the wraps off a major inbound update for Nightingale dubbed Realms Rebuilt. The update, which is essentially the...

Greek myth-themed survivalbox Dawn of Defiance begins its early access

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That's right, we've got another multiplayer survival sandbox on our hands, only this one is wearing a mythological Greek costume: It's Dawn of Defiance,...

New World’s Aeternum open beta for PC and console is slated for September 13-16

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We're finally getting some movement on New World that involves PC players: Amazon has just formally announced its Aeternum open beta, which smooshes together...

Stars Reach begins testing this weekend as Raph Koster talks playstyle and the anti-endgame

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Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is continuing his weekly dev blogs about Stars Reach's intended audience this week - though he does say this one...

Snail Games reveals For The Stars, a sprawling new multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox

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Snail Games has just unveiled a brand-new AAA MMO, not that it's calling it an MMO: For The Stars is being billed by Snail...
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Mecha Break counts more than 50,000 concurrent players (and more in China) during open beta

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Flying around in a giant mech blowing up other players in giant mechs? Who wants to do that? According to the Mecha Break stats...
Sure, fine, whatever, this'll do.

Stormgate is out in free-to-play early access now

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If you've got a hankering for some RTS gameplay, you want it to be free-to-play and still have a lot of development to go,...

Pax Dei schedules plot cleanup for August 21 – with new criteria for which plots it’s deleting

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Mainframe Industries has been talking up a big plot clean-up for Pax Dei for the last couple of weeks - and now we have...

Beta testing for EverQuest II’s Immeasurable Menagerie has officially begun

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We dare you to not read the next game update for EverQuest II in a snooty British accent. It can't be done. And if...

Extraction shooter Arena Breakout Infinite begins its free-to-play early access

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Another extraction shooter has made it to the shallows of early access: MoreFun Studios' Arena Breakout: Infinite, a free-to-play shooter that promises an immersive...
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SMITE 2 takes a deep look at the game’s new matchmaking system accompanying its 24/7 alpha on August 27

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When you have your game on at all times, you want players to be able to queue up and find a match pronto. Games...

Dofus kicks off a beta test for its five-years-in-the-making Unity version

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It's been five years in the making, but quirky MMO Dofus is on the cusp of switching over game engines from Flash to Unity....