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]

The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming enters the RTS arena of Immortal Gates of Pyre

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Tonight's episode of Backseat Streaming is once again host to another game that will be entirely new to MOP's MJ and Chris: Immortal: Gates...

No, Pax Dei isn’t going to delete all your houses while you’re on summer vacation

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Remember last week when Mainframe Industries teased a plot clean-up for Pax Dei that would hopefully clear out some of the abandoned plots in...

SMITE 2 introduces a new character as part of its upcoming 24/7 closed alpha beginning August 27

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SMITE 2 has been running closed alpha tests a few times already, but those were happening only during weekends. That's about to change in...

EverQuest II GU 126 Immeasurable Menagerie hits open beta August 13

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EverQuest II's GU 126 update is hitting the beta test server next week, and while at first I wondered whether it was named after...

PvPvE extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil hits closed beta in September following NA closed alpha this week

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We've been keeping a couple of eyeballs on PvPvE extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil as it's moved through alpha playtesting over the last year...

Corepunk engages alpha four today with new biomes, trading, and mounts

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And they're off! Corepunk's alpha 4 officially kicked off at 4 p.m. EDT today with an amusingly stoic preface from Artificial Core: "On the...

Dune Awakening promises ‘gameplay flowing like spice’ at its Gamescom 2024 appearance

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It was probably pretty easy to assume that Dune: Awakening was holding back on any major reveals until the next big gaming event, and...

Fight or Kite: Marvel Rivals replaces Overwatch heroes with Marvel flair

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I don’t think we’ll ever be certain, but I am pretty sure I can guess exactly how Marvel Rivals was initially created. Someone walked...

Monsters & Memories is running another open stress test this weekend

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Clear your Saturday, old-school MMOers, because throwback sandbox MMORPG Monsters & Memories is plotting yet another stress test, open to all comers. The event...

Drakantos says it is very much an MMORPG, but not exactly like others you’ve played

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Is Drakantos an MMORPG? A co-op OARPG? The answer to that question is the primary subject of Wingeon Game Studios' June dev blog, which...

Pax Dei’s next major update will feature prettier crafting materials and crafted goods

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If you had to run down a personal list of things that survivalbox MMORPG Pax Dei needed to work on, what would that list...

Palworld’s latest creature spotlight video focuses on the moon-wielding Selyne

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Generally, if a creature is capable of manipulating something that looks like a crescent moon, it's probably capable of messing you up real good....

Rumor: Riot Games is working on a Valorant-themed MMOFPS

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For several years now, Riot Games has made noise -- and more -- about its desire to enter the MMO scene. And while the...

Dune Awakening publishes the first of its planned monthly newsletters

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If there's one complaint that could be leveraged against Dune: Awakening, it's that Funcom isn't exactly generous with information about the survival sandbox MMO,...

Victorian sandbox Nightingale banks on a big summer patch to turn its fortunes around

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While admitting "shortcomings" to Nightingale's initial launch, six months into early access Inflexion Games' devs say that they're "proud" of the title and yet...

PvPvE extraction RPG Dungeonborne adds a new Rogue skill, new skeletal weapons, and balance changes

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With about three weeks of early access under its belt, the PvPvE extraction RPG Dungeonborne has elected to start making some larger updates to...

Betawatch: Fellowship offers previews, Ultima Online New Legacy testing rolls on

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Whenever I hear the title Fellowship, I think about that video about how cats are praised for fellowship, which reminds me of the fact...

The Stream Team: Peeking in on the early access multiplayer life RPG Spellfarers

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Cozy huts. Witchy things. Farming. The game Spellfarers seems to tick a lot of boxes for MOP's Chris. Also, it's free-to-play. So all told,...

Brighter Shores posts a candy rope timeline of its development, asks players to not try to eat it

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Brighter Shores lead developer Andrew Gower is teasing us. Not with the game's mechanics itself - that happened last week - but with the...

Not So Massively: Stormgate was not ready for early access

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As the first of StarCraft II's spiritual successors to make it to a public launch, Stormgate will be releasing free to play for all...