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]

Enshrouded adds musical instruments and a new sub-biome in today’s Melodies of the Mire patch

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The games industry is contractually obligated to provide us with at least one smash-hit survivalbox game every year - sorry, I don't make the...

Survival sandbox Valheim expands its early access to Mac gamers next week

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Before you ask, no, Valheim has still not emerged from early access. But it did just roll out its massive Ashlands expansion back in...

Temtem Swarm debuts a new gameplay trailer and previews one of its boss monsters

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Temtem: Swarm, the second spinoff game from the originally Kickstarted "MMO-lite" game Temtem, has come back as a major blip on our radar as...

Legends of Aria’s crypto version, Britaria, goes bust over ‘financial constraints’

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When Citadel Studios announced back in April that it was planning to relaunch the Kickstarted MMORPG Legends of Aria (fka Shards Online) as a...

Drakantos shows off Thomas the Bard Cat, a deadly new delve, and new pets and monsters

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When is a Bard class not just a Bard class? When that Bard is a singing, ambulatory cat. Say hello to Thomas, the latest...

Seekers of Skyveil moves towards adding new characters, announces Steam playtest June 6 and 7

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Seekers of Skyveil, the PvPvE extraction MOBA from Elodie Games, is once again on our radar, as the studio's latest development blog is talking...

BitCraft shares a preview of its wide world in a new cinematic video

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If you weren't among the 6,500 players who got to try out the last alpha test of BitCraft, then you understandably might feel like...

Tarisland promises a balloon-popping good time in one of its many minigames

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Tarisland has already cast a spotlight over its "misc PvE gameplay," but the joy of popping a whole bunch of balloons with a well-aimed...

Choose My Adventure: Returning to Star Citizen (and fussing with tech)

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It's been a long while since I got to hop into Star Citizen. Not for a lack of desire, but mostly for a lack...

Fractured Online plans summer launch, new server, and a major PvP ruleset revamp

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Following the relaunch of Fractured Online’s early access and its first mega patch, Dynamight Studios has now released a full roadmap for the sandbox...

Sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei opens preorders for its newly announced June 18 early access

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Is it too soon for Pax Dei to be hitting early access? We're about to find out, as Mainframe Industries announced this morning that...

Monsters & Memories invites you to another stress test tomorrow

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It's a test for the test over at throwback MMO Monsters & Memories. The team at Niche Worlds Cult announced that it's running an...

Concord is a team vs team FPS that promises approachable but deep gameplay

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Evidently game studios smell Overwatch 2's blood in the water because we've got yet another addition to the team vs. team hero shooter sub-genre....

Abyss Online studio Old World Labs seeks to hire more staff to help its flagging MMORPG

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Last week, Abyss Online developer Old World Labs did the opposite of marketing its early access MMO, as it instead warned potential players away...

Tarisland counts 3M pre-registrations, opens lore site prior to global launch

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We're just a couple weeks away from a major global MMO launch in the form of Tarisland, and it's all hands on deck in...

Ashes of Creation shares a preview of its node war PvP system

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The PvP sandbox of Ashes of Creation already has talked about making players fight for things like dungeon spots and caravans, but now it's...

First Impressions: Corepunk’s MOBA-esque closed alpha was fun – with lots of room to grow

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I've got a pretty good poker face, especially when nobody can see my face. So I've been pretty subtle about my excitement for Corepunk...

Tibia dev CipSoft just announced Persist Online, a post-apoc PvPvE MMORPG

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Tibia developer CipSoft has a big announcement lined up for this morning: It's working on a new MMO. In fact, it's calling it a...

Age of Water discusses planned adjustments to weapons, navigation, combat, and economy

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Age of Water (aka Moist Crossout) has quite a way to go before it manages to get into a more suitably playable state, even...

Past Fate adds ‘proper starting tutorials’ and makes a swamp zone ‘much more poisonous’

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The swamps are swampier and the tutorials are more informative according to Past Fate, which continues its seemingly endless march through closed alpha with...