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]

Upcoming MMORPG Corepunk highlights its world and races in new artwork

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Back in December, we got a peek at a new Unity MMORPG from Dutch studio Artificial Core called Corepunk. Even newly announced, it got...
DEATH OR LIFE, PICK ONE

Phantasy Star Online 2 prepares players for closed beta with English voice acting and retained progress

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Fans with an Xbox One are going to be playtesting the localized version of Phantasy Star Online 2 on February 7th. Players on the PC...

Torchlight III zeroes in on the Sharpshooter, warns of a wipe

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How have you been coping with Torchlight Frontiers' transition away from an MMO and toward the limited multiplayer Torchlight III? I'm going to start...

Project Gorgon looks to add a playable fairy race in its next major update

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You can be a number of things in Project Gorgon, including but not limited to a fighter, a crafter, a spider, and a cow....

Dual Universe takes a close look at organizations, rights management, and ownership

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Carving out a piece of the interstellar dream is likely going to be the driving motivator for most players of Dual Universe, whether it's...
Bye.

The Repopulation improves island performance in its latest update

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It's fine if you add new things to your sandbox, but none of that will particularly matter if your game runs like butt. Ensuring...

MMO sim Identity breaks silence to cite funding problems and ask for community help

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Considering that we haven't heard a peep from the indie life simulator Identity for a half-year now, we were starting to assume the project...

Last Oasis discusses FFA PvP balance and invites clans to a beta test

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So we all understand that Last Oasis is an FFA PvP sandbox, a fact that its devs are loudly and happily crowing about. That...
Yeah, it's never happening.

Phantasy Star Online 2’s North American Xbox One beta begins February 7

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Get out your "it's happening" gifs or maybe just your "thank goodness, some good news today" signs: Sega formally put a date on Phantasy...

Shroud of the Avatar shows off its reborn Upper Tears region

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It would seem that the undead of the Upper Tears area in Shroud of the Avatar have gotten fed up of being XP-earning fodder...

Torchlight Frontiers launches this summer as Torchlight III – and it’s not an MMO now

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So here's one nobody quite got right in the 2020 predictions: Torchlight Frontiers is changing its name to Torchlight III, with a summer launch...

Fractured plans another alpha test for late February

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It's been a while since we last checked in with Fractured, so let's see what this indie MMO project is up to these days!...

Star Citizen’s roadmap moves and removes various weapons, vehicles, and features

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Star Citizen is in active development, so things are going to change and shift around. That said, the most recent roadmap update has had...
ships asplode

Make My MMO: Temtem’s early access, Dual Universe’s metaverse

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Dual Universe's Jean-Christoph Baillie chatted up GamesIndustry.biz about the development of the game, suggesting a game that's essentially a...
Critters.

Betawatch: Temtem moves into early access with just a bit of shakiness

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Oh, Temtem, things looked fine when you were waiting to go into early access. You even had a cute trailer! And then you got...
We built a very good house or something.

Bless Unleashed shares open PvP changes and casts a spotlight on the PvP-minded Court of Ravens Union

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Around mid-December, the devs of Bless Unleashed explained that the game's open PvP was due for some changes and outlined a few of them....

Korean MMORPG Summoners War: Chronicle launches globally in 2020

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We're positive you won't remember this because we sure didn't, but at G-Star way back in 2017, Com2uS trotted a bunch of its new...

Inside Star Citizen discusses miroTech’s moons and shows off the Cutlass Red space ambulance

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The first Inside Star Citizen of 2020 is here, and it's a compact little bundle of new information for players of the developing sandbox....

Saga of Lucimia announces tentative launch date of Q4 2021

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Over the course of 2019, Saga of Lucimia went relatively quiet on the publicity front. It closed its pre-order store for stage two of...

Grimdark MMO Mad World resurfaces with new updates and explanations for alpha delays

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You folks remember Mad World, right? The isometric, grimdark Jandisoft MMO that's missed several testing and Steam deadlines now? Back in November, the team...

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