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]

Project Gorgon buffs Necromancers, preps mount cosmetics, and fixes AOE issues

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Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon dropped a fresh content-and-QOL patch this week in what devs characterized as a "nice well-rounded update" with a little bit...

Star Citizen takes a look at the space stations, asteroid bases, and FFA PvP of alpha 4.0’s Pyro system

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Star Citizen's weekly video series is now starting to look past alpha 3.24 and towards alpha 4.0, especially the addition of the game's second...

Solarpunk’s July progress report showcases additions to its building system

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Solarpunk is a survival crafting sandbox, so obviously building is going to be a major part of its core gameplay loop, but that feature...

Throne & Liberty testers murdered almost 30M NPCs during its open beta

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If you wanted to kill someone in PvP during Throne & Liberty's open beta test, you were using a dagger. The most common builds...

Dark and Darker Mobile begins its global beta test

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Do you have PvPvE dungeons on your phone? Well you do now, assuming you're among the people who were excited to begin Dark and...

Hands-on with Arc Games’ Fellowship, a new game trying to distill the MMORPG dungeon experience

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For many folks, one of the more entertaining aspects of playing an MMORPG is running through its dungeons (though of course that varies from...

Ashes of Creation previews its Bard class, announces Alpha Two’s release in October

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It's time to get violently musical in Ashes of Creation, or at least it will be when Alpha Two goes live because the Bard...

Raph Koster on designing and defining Stars Reach: ‘The Tragedy of the Commons is a lie’

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Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with a new dev blog on Stars Reach, and it's not about game design pillars this time; it's...

Crowdfunded multiplayer RTS Stormgate enters headstart today ahead of its August free-to-play launch

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If you're an MMORTS junkie as MOP's Tyler is, you've probably been watching Stormgate's development with great interest over the last few years. In...

Cozy multiplayer life sim Spellfarers conjures up an early access launch

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Grab your trusty spell books, phone a friend for support, and take a trip on your favorite flying broom (or high-speed internet line) right...

The Stream Team: Hopping in to a friend’s Palworld universe

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MOP's Chris is entering Palworld again, only this time he's not going to be starting from scratch or going through his own playthrough; he'll...

Dungeons and Dragons Online tests new level cap, quests, and feats for Magic of Myth Drannor

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Before anyone knows it, August 14th will be upon us, which means Dungeons and Dragons Online players will be able to get in to...

Palia’s latest update rewards gamers for building – and touring! – player houses

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As teased, Singularity 6 - now owned by Daybreak, which continues to boggle the mind - released Palia's Summer Serenade patch last night, with...

Chrono Odyssey shares combat impressions from a recent small-scale test

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It's been some time since we've heard a peep out of Chrono Odyssey, the splashy UE5-powered MMORPG from developer Npixel and publisher Kakao Games,...

Star Citizen begins its Ship Showdown community event and demonstrates building a POI

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The time has once again come for fans of Star Citizen to stump for their favorite internet spaceships and ultimately see which one is...

Corepunk is dispatching preorder keys today ahead of next week’s alpha

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If you've been waiting patiently for the delivery of your Corepunk pre-order keys, today is your day. Well, technically, it was supposed to be...

Survivalbox Enshrouded’s Back to the Shroud update offers three new difficulty presets – including a relaxed easymode

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Enshrouded blew up the sandbox world at the top of the year, roping in a million players and then following it up with dungeons,...

Indie studio Moon Rover Games receives $3.5M in funding from NCsoft for co-op shooter Project Aldous

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It's been over a year since we were first introduced to Moon Rover Games, an indie studio made up of former Ubisoft and EA...

Palworld studio enters partnership to accelerate ‘multifaceted global development’ and expansion

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Admittedly, this bit of Palworld news is entering into supposition territory, but considering the language of the announcement, it could mean big things for...

StarCraft II-inspired multiplayer RTS Immortal Gates of Pyre plans Steam playtest this weekend

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After a lengthy period of silence, the team behind indie RTS Immortal: Gates of Pyre has announced a playtest on Steam for August 2nd...