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]

Book of Travels’ first dev blog covers multiplayer endeavours

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Despite (or perhaps, because of) being a small, quiet title, Book of Travels is one of our most anticipated MMOs for 2020. As they...
To sink beneath.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands continues its march of encrypted alpha builds

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In the abstract sense, it's really not unheard of that we as of yet don't know more about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It's not all that...

Diablo IV team dishes on inventory revamp, PC vs. console UI layout, and cannibals

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Blizzard's just dropped a "quarterly update" for Diablo 4, the first of apparently more planned blog posts from the team, this one focused on...

Temtem eyes a trading hall, console port, hardcore mode, and cosmetics cash shop by summer 2021

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Yesterday, Crema dropped a big roadmap for Pokemon-esque MMO-lite Temtem. Deeming it the "short-term" plan, the studio elaborated on competitive matchmaking, spectator mode, chat...

New World may consider bringing back gankbox elements, talks up its uniqueness

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Amazon Game Studios did an interview with IGN this week about New World that's part puzzler, part eyebrow-raiser, part declaration of war. First, remember how...

Preloading is live for Bless Unleashed’s headstart launch this afternoon

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Neowiz is about to try again-again with the Bless franchise, as Bless Unleashed rolls into headstart today. Well, it starts today if you shelled...

Project Gorgon details the upcoming Fairy advanced race and brainstorms about player housing

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Some exciting changes are on the way to Project Gorgon in the near and long term. Soon, players will be able to try out...

Temtem’s roadmap reveals chat, guild, matchmaking updates – and player housing in 2020

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Last week, amid announcing 500,000 sales of Temtem, Crema teased that it'd be dropping a full roadmap for the game's development through early access....

EVE Echoes has been ‘hindered’ by the coronavirus but will launch in ‘late 2020’

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With CCP Games seemingly trying to sneak game cancelations under the radar, you might be wondering what's going on with EVE Echoes. The EVE...

Space colony sim MMO SEED offers a look at how its AI operates

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Alessia Nigretti, one of the AI engineers of the in-development space colonization MMO SEED, seems pretty happy about her job and eager to share...

Mad World interviews its writing team and further fleshes out its universe

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With a game title like Mad World, you probably expect a lot of things to have gone wrong. Part of getting that sensation is...
Ah... huh.

Bless Unleashed details head start events for founder’s pack purchasers

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If you're invested in the launch of Bless Unleashed to the point that you bought a founder's pack for the game, then you're not...
Stay

Fight or Kite: New World’s switcheroo is the best thing that could have happened for PvPers

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About a month ago, Amazon’s large age of conquest MMO, New World, announced a huge shift in focus from a free-for-all, full-loot PvP game...

Torchlight III discusses adjustments being made to combat, skill progression, and harvesting

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With Torchlight III firmly in its current phase of alpha, the folks at Echtra Games are keen to address some of the major points...

Make My MMO: Temtem’s 500K sales, Kickstarter’s union, Elite’s lore debate

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Temtem studio Crema announced that it has officially sold over 500,000 copies of the game across the globe -...

Ship of Heroes grants a look a new Martial Arts melee powerset in a video

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It takes a special kind of superhero to go into a fight against the forces superheroes face with nothing but your fists and feet,...

Betawatch: Crowfall hands out rewards, guides people in necromancy, and covers race disciplines

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Darn it, Crowfall, could you be bothered to have a unifying theme this week? Look, it's good that you're giving out monthly rewards to backers,...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen takes a tour of the Faerthale region in a livestream

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That Faerthale gameplay look we were promised has arrived. The new area is the focus of the latest livestream from Pantheon: Rise of the...

Star Citizen explores microTech’s moons and Anvil Carrack as the Crytek lawsuit reaches a settlement

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Another week, another Inside Star Citizen. This time, we're continuing the three-part look at development work on microTech's moons and given a room-by-room tour...
Commence the jiggling.

Blue Protocol is going to be free-to-play on launch

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Those of you eagerly following news about the upcoming cel-shaded Blue Protocol may be happy to know that the game now has a planned business...