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]

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...

Last Oasis discusses a new walker, meteor strike events, and solutions for zerging

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It looks like there's some new things to play with coming to survival sandbox Last Oasis. A new dev blog posted on the game's...

Take a peek at the Shadowlands customization options for World of Warcraft’s races

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One of the most vital parts of playing any MMORPG is getting your look exactly right, but we can all pretty much agree that...

Make My MMO: Following Chronicles of Elyria reports, state attorney general addresses crowdfunding scams

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Chronicles of Elyria stirred fresh drama, as Soulbound Studios appeared to backtrack on its announcement that it had folded...
One last round.

Betawatch: WoW’s Shadowlands hits alpha, Virtuverse moves to public testing

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Yes, after all the waiting, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands was announced to be going into alpha testing and then finally did so. If you...

The Repopulation works through an annoying crash issue and begins filling out whitebox areas

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The April update from The Repopulation notes some pretty important progress. The latest build has addressed a persistent 02 crash issue with the help...

Torchlight III’s latest update raises the max level and wipes all characters

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So you're probably wondering why there's a goblin-headed Thanos in the header image for this Torchlight III story. For one, the image was too...

Check out the winners of Dual Universe’s player-generated content contest

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Back at the end of March, we covered Dual Universe's space station building contest, whereby alpha participants had six months to put together the...

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