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]

The Occupy White Walls Deep State update turns interrogation rooms into art

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Do you have a deep love for interrogation rooms as an aesthetic? That's... kind of boring and weird? But then again it can also...

Make My MMO: Book of Travels has already doubled its Kickstarter ask

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we've got a new addition to the Make My MMO list: Book of Travels, the "tiny multiplayer online"...
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Betawatch: Star Citizen patches up to 3.7.1

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Yo dawg, we heard you like Star Citizen patches, so we applied a patch to another patch so your Star Citizen patch has another Star Citizen...

Citadel: Forged with Fire offers a rough plan for post-launch updates and goes free-to-play this weekend

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Curious about Citadel: Forged with Fire but not willing to pull the trigger on a pre-order or purchase? This weekend is your chance to...

Inside Star Citizen shows off its procedurally generated space stations and food courts

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In order to populate the universe of Star Citizen with various rest stops and space stations, the devs are going to have to put...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen details racial passives with new video newsletter

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Hey, kids! How do you like to take your newsletters? Do you like them in neatly organized and well-written text format, or do you...
Rebuild. Rise.

City of Titans’ character creator, Titan Create, is now available for backers

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If you'd been wondering what that countdown on City of Titans' Twitter last week was, well you probably just overlooked the announcement earlier this...

Interview: Population Zero explains its combat, training, raiding, and more

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Population Zero, the survival MMO from Enplex Games, is currently in the midst of closed beta test weekends, with its third CBT live now...

Voidspace promises a survival MMO where players control the narrative, created items, and even inventions

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In the vast majority of survival sandbox titles, creating items means you have to follow a pre-determined path or tree in order to unlock...

Star Citizen brings the interdiction-fixing alpha 3.7.1 online and shares the schedule for CitizenCon

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With the newest update to Star Citizen, the game has hopefully fixed its little space rock vs. face problem (spoiler: space rock wins). Alpha...

EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile EVE Echoes enters beta in December

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EVE Online mobile MMO EVE Echoes is swooping past its summer alpha into a winter beta, according to an announcement from CCP Games and NetEase...

‘Unique social roleplaying experience’ Book of Travels begins Kickstarter

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If you've often promised that you would support online RPGs that broke from tropish traditions and took risks, well, it's time to put your...
I still love you, robot.

Torchlight Frontiers is adding customizable robot heads according to roadmap update

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Here's the thing: If you're playing Torchlight Frontiers' alpha, you're playing a robot. There's no reason not to play a robot. And according to...

Bless Unleashed devs say they’ve ‘drastically reworked the entire crafting system’

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As Neowiz and Bandai Namco march onward toward the open beta of Bless Unleashed in November, the teams have once again penned a dev...
Oh, is that all.

Project C explains the studio’s philosophy behind the in-game economy and its business model

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MMOs offering a currency pegged to real money that can also be converted back into real money aren't particularly common, but Project C is...

Make your own online game with Playcraft’s incredible toybox, launching today

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Sure, you talk big about making games if you only knew how to code, but would you actually make good on that boast if...

Space colony MMO SEED announces ‘Pioneers’ alpha coming in 2020

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With SpatialOS titles bailing out of the genre left and right, it falls to games like Seed - now being marketed as SEED -...

Miniature Desert Oasis: Hands-on with the upcoming Black Desert Mobile

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Five years ago, if you'd asked me about any mobile game, I wouldn't have even considered it a real game. I'd have considered it...
There are some who call me... big.

Kingdom Under Fire 2 prepares for its Western release with several class videos

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When you hear the classes for the MMO Kingdom Under Fire 2, you probably can guess which one does what; there are only so...
Batty.

Project Gorgon adds Halloween quest, adjusts the Giant Bat skill in latest update

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There's nothing quite like reading the patch notes for Project Gorgon because what other game lets you not only become a giant bat but also seriously...

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