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]

Camelot Unchained isn’t launching this year, delays until at least 2020

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(This piece has been updated at the end with stream notes.) Throughout its long (long) development history, Camelot Unchained has been almost mechanical about its...
Pack it in.

Legends of Aria details the process of moving house to the new merged Ethereal Moon server

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Ready to pack it in and move servers in Legends of Aria? The new Ethereal Moon server beckons all players, but for players with houses...

Chronicles of Elyria has raised $7.7 million from gamers to date

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Do you remember when Chronicles of Elyria raised $1.36 million on Kickstarter back in 2016 to make its highly ambitious (and so far, unfinished)...

Ship of Heroes says its character creator is a ‘huge step up from games like City of Heroes and SWTOR’

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We're just about to see the launch of a character creator tool for our second superhero MMO of the month, as Ship of Heroes'...

RuneScape Mobile is now in early access on Android for all subscribers

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Oh, you thought that mobile phone games were free from the early access flu? You sweet summer child, Jagex would like a word. RuneScape...

Dual Universe alpha 2.1 will let players create space stations thanks to Space Core Units

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While one of the bigger hooks for Dual Universe has always been about building stuff, making a space station has been a little more...

Lord of the Rings Online posts Minas Morgul patch notes

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With its Minas Morgul expansion scheduled for next week, Lord of the Rings Online is all but ready for players to re-invade Mordor and...
No elf.

Blizzard’s just kicked off Warcraft III: Reforged’s multiplayer beta

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Remember last BlizzCon when Blizzard announced it was working a revitalized version of the 2002 Warcraft III RTS? Warcraft III: Reforged is the name,...

Why Fight lets players enter an open battlefield to duke it out for rewards in short game sessions

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We'd like to introduce you to Why Fight by the three-person team of Build on Barren Studios (yes, those are actual titles thought up...

Legends of Aria is going semi-free-to-play with sweeping New Dawn update

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If you've been feeling a bit confused by all of Legends of Aria's recent changes, my friends, you are not alone. Back in August,...

Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Frontiers says goodbye to me with a hearty kick to the butt

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It seems that the final week of Torchlight Frontiers wanted to see me out with some bruises on my butt. I don’t know whether...

Star Citizen is kicking off a free-fly for alpha 3.7 right now

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If you've been eyeing Star Citizen's alpha 3.7 incremental patches wondering whether there's enough there there to take a peek, then good news for...

Camelot Unchained reviews its pathfinding code and makes happy accidents with armor

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Bob Ross, in his infinite wisdom, would sometimes make "happy accidents" while painting where he took a mistaken attempt and made it something new...

Lost Ark open beta kicks off in Russia and there’s already ways for English-speaking players to hop in

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We wholly expect Lost Ark to make its way to our shores soon enough, but that certainly hasn't stopped many from getting ahead of...

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...

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