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]

Riot Games defends Valorant’s Vanguard security driver, offers a $100k bounty to exploit it

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Last week, Riot Games unveiled that their in-development competitive FPS Valorant runs an anti-cheat process in the background of player systems, which caused no...

Make My MMO: Project Gorgon is working on an epic animal husbandry system

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, MOP reader Dalton tipped us off to some fun stuff brewing in the near future for Project Gorgon. "Animal...
That arena is sure shadowy.

Betawatch: Shadow Arena’s final beta test is happening now

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It's the final countdown! Wait... no, I'm sorry, it's not a countdown at all. It's the actual final beta test for Shadow Arena and...

First Impressions: Fractured’s alpha playtest begins to put the pieces together

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As we reported at the end of last week, MMORPG sandbox Fractured opened up its alpha test to all backers. With this test phase,...

Camelot Unchained talks about a new island scenario and other updates in a livestream

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Camelot Unchained held a mid-April livestream to share some of its latest progress with backers and fans. Specifically, Mark Jacobs, who broadcast live from...

Take a fresh tour of Population Zero’s planet Kepler and biomes

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Leaving planet Earth right now doesn't seem like such a bad idea, although life on Kepler might be even tougher. This is the location...

Torchlight III expands localization and talks up the player housing fort feature

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Good news for Spanish-speaking players of Torchlight III who would prefer to play in that language, as the game's most recent update has added...

City of Titans shows off some recent images of Alexandria City

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The folks at City of Titans have stayed busy (and stayed safe), with continuing work on fleshing out the Alexandria City location. In a...
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Magic: Legends details the mechanics of Artifacts

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In the traditional card game of Magic: The Gathering, Artifacts are special sorts of permanents that offer a variety of different effects for gameplay...

Realm of the Mad God’s remastered Unity edition, Exalt, is now in open beta

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Realm of the Mad God is one of those MMOs that are hard to quantify, being part retro-pixel shooter and part permadeath MMO in...

Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff just fully funded on Kickstarter for $79,000

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Swords 'n Magic and Stuff just fully funded on Kickstarter, ensuring that I'm going to be looking up the exact spelling of this "casual,...

MMOs you’ve never heard of: Red Stone, Euotopia, Ogre Island, Stendhal, and Astonia

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of — or have totally forgotten about until now! If you're...

Legends of Runeterra previews the Noxus region and confirms an April 30 launch date

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Riot Games' digital CCG Legends of Runeterra is about to step out of open beta and into fully-launched product, confirming its launch on PC...

Elite Dangerous is seriously reducing the cost of fleet carriers following beta feedback

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Elite Dangerous' fleet carriers beta has been up barely a week, but already Frontier is walking back some of the changes. Last week, players venturing...

World of Warcraft previews Shadowlands’ Torghast while WoW Classic goes into Phase 4

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Will Blizzard ever crack the code of engaging and replayable World of Warcraft endgame content that doesn't go stale for a long time? It's...

Early access sandbox survival MMO SamuTale revamps its world with new resources, visuals, and items

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In what's being touted as its largest update yet, the colorful sandbox MMO SamuTale has done a wholesale revamp of its game world. This...

Book of Travels previews its paper- and card-inspired user interface

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One of the selling points of Book of Travels that originally caught my eye way back before its successful Kickstarter last year was its...

Over a thousand people rolled toons in Ship of Heroes’ impromptu beta

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Ship of Heroes had been making the best of the COVID-19 stay-home mandates with an impromptu beta test. Now that the test is done,...

Riot developer confirms Valorant has an anti-cheat process running in the background

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Many folks feel extremely strongly about multiplayer games that have anti-cheat processes that run when the game boots up, so we feel it fair...
The fanboy mines are harder to work all the time.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands datamining continues with NPC races and gear sets

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The words of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have remained with us for years: "Nothing better shows my taste than what I wear below my...

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