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]

Past something, sure.

Past Fate starts its open alpha on February 24 following Kickstarter cancelation

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At long last, Past Fate is entering its open alpha testing on February 24th. "How is this possible?" you ask, before clarifying that the...
Agony and sorrow.

Crowfall takes a closer look at character race disciplines

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Racial passives in MMOs are a bit of a dying system, but Crowfall is bringing them back with racial disciplines, which were the subject...

Interview: Pearl Abyss on Shadow Arena’s Black Desert origins, esports, audience, and more

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Along with battle royale fans and Black Desert players, we've been keeping an eye on Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena, the one-time battle royale mode...

New World details its semi-instanced player housing system

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Amazon knows the best way to make me set aside my worries about New World: a dev blog on player housing. Will it work?...
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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has an encrypted alpha build out now

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Blizzard would probably like it if people stopped talking about how the latest World of Warcraft patch is not very good, or how Warcraft III: Reforged...

The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about the launch of Amazon’s New World?

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Not quite a year ago, when Amazon took New World out of alpha and back to the drawing board, I posed almost this exact...

Hegemony promises its economy is ‘truly equal in playing field’

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Worried that coming in late to the crafting and economic game of Hegemony will put you at a disadvantage to those who have been...
Isn't it necromantic?

Crowfall offers a two-hour tutorial on digging up graves and practical necromancy

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If you've ever longed for the option to look on your crafting interface and see the option to assemble a higher quality arm for...

Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago

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In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...

Leaderboard: Are you still interested in Amazon’s New World, knowing it won’t be reverting to a FFA PvP MMO?

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There's been a big ol' ruckus about New World across Reddit the last day or two, ever since the closed alpha resumed. You know...

Grab a key for Shadow Arena’s February 27 closed beta, courtesy of Pearl Abyss and MOP

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If you were a big fan of Black Desert's Shadow Arena when it joined the MMO and then was removed last year, then you're...

Eden Falling clarifies its funding situation after investor rep disputes press release

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On Sunday, we covered the news that multiplayer RPG Eden Falling had resurfaced with new development updates and and a major investment into developer...
Mild

Wild Terra 2: New Lands will hit closed alpha this week for high-end backers

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Last fall, Juvty Worlds announced that it had run into the "ceiling of technology" with Wild Terra and was pointing its four-person dev team...

The Repopulation’s latest update once again focuses on optimization and error fixing

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I've often written here about how not every patch or update needs to bring some big ticket feature and that, sometimes, it's just better...

Crowfall will start handing out monthly appreciation rewards to its backers

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How do you thank those who have been monetarily supporting your in-development throne war MMO? By dishing out monthly freebies, that's how! Crowfall is...

Temtem opens a new weekly endgame location and makes Luma critters more rare

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The world of Temtem has opened a new location in its latest patch that should be pretty enticing to those who are at the...

Saga of Lucimia may be moving toward a hybrid business model

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While the topic of lockboxes, cash shops, and business models isn't anything new -- which is an understatement -- Saga of Lucimia's team is...

Broke Protocol’s latest update brings garages, a James Bond weapon, and cross-compatible mobile play

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v1.03 of the online city RPG Broke Protocol is online and it's called Garages. Which seems pretty self explanatory when you look over the...

Make My MMO: Fractured’s latest stress test brought it to 70K registered players

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured ended its second stress test with a bang this week, and unlike the first test,...

New World shows off the factions and enemies of the world of Aeternum

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We already had an idea that New World is a dangerous place and that we were getting a video diary about the factions as...

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