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]

Trials of Ascension: Exile gets bought by a player who vows to continue development

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If you were worried that your dreams of playing as a spider were in danger due to the rocky foundation that Trials of Ascension:...

Camelot Unchained makes progress on the Minstrel, Dark Fool, and Skald

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Camelot Unchained is very much focused on its new musically-minded support classes as the past few weekly updates have been a testament. This week's...

Ashes of Creation explains how Apocalypse battle royale has brought about improvements to the MMO

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This past Friday saw a developer livestream from the Ashes of Creation team with the aim of providing a bit more context on just...

Preview: Dual Universe demos alpha 2’s player economy, solar system, and space stations

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You know that feeling when you follow a game's development and it just keeps getting better and better? I don't mean the promises of...

Legends of Aria is adding new dynamic spawns, new classes, and more PvP risk vs. reward

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About this time last week, Legends of Aria was detailing some incoming features of its upcoming Point Release 8 like new Martial abilities and...

City of Titans defines alpha and beta, teases a patcher, and shows off unisex outfits

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There's been a little bit of a news burst coming out of the City of Titans camp. The devs have taken a moment to...

Ember Sword is an upcoming MMORPG with a blockchain-based monetization scheme

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By Ember Sword's reckoning, the MMORPG genre is in decline thanks to insidious monetization practices like lootboxes and pay-to-win items. So what do you...

Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation Apocalypse is review-bombed, again, as Fig throws shade on Kickstarter

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If Ashes of Creation Apocalypse thought it could avoid a review-bomb with a new Steam portal as Apocalypse hit early access this week, it...

Eternal Magic has been accused of ripping off Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, and SMITE

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It's no secret that Eternal Magic, the now-in-beta PvP MMO from Chinese developer Duoyi, got off to a bad start with the community earlier...
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Betawatch: Ashes of Creation un-cancels the Apocalypse, Magic the Gathering Arena leaves beta

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What? Yes, we know that Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse was never cancelled, but it was a perfect chance to make a Pacific Rim reference. Besides,...

Mobile MMORPG Warhammer: Odyssey walks you through some of its locales in a video

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Why would you want to stroll through a world where a Chaos Moon is causing misery, strife, and death? Why, to show off your...

Starbase shows off how devices make doors, factories, rails, and other objects work in a video

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There are a lot of moving parts to make constructs in Starbase work, and the brains that make these things happen are devices, little...

Inside Star Citizen talks about the mission sharing, weapon attachments, and ship rental features of alpha 3.7

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While much of Star Citizen's alpha 3.7 update has been about caves and first-person mining, there's much more coming with the next update, and...
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Astellia Online formally launches tomorrow night – here’s what to expect

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Astellia Online's big day is almost here: After a week of staggered headstart access for pre-order players, Barunson's MMORPG will officially launch Saturday the...

Crowfall details the War of the Gods milestone and what it means for an alpha release

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A major milestone is on the horizon for Crowfall in the form of War of the Gods. This collective name for several updates is...

Black Desert Mobile opens pre-registration on iOS and Android as downloads swell to 10M

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Pearl Abyss has been teasing Black Desert Mobile's global launch for the better part of 2019, promising at E3 that it'll hit global devices...

Atlas plans one more massive wipe plus weekend update ahead of Xbox One launch

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Yesterday, Xbox One fans got some good news out of in-development pirate MMO Atlas: It's launching on the platform's early access equivalent on October...

Last Oasis delays early access again, this time to next year

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There's something of a surfeit of survival sandbox MMOs out there, so making sure a game stands out certainly feels more important than ever....

Cyberpunk MMO Zenith just raised more than a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter

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For the last many weeks, we've been covering the Kickstarter drive of Zenith, a cyberpunk MMO courting both PC and VR players. As of...
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Eternal Magic moves into open beta today – here’s the new trailer

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Good news, fans of optimization: Eternal Magic is moving into open beta today, and one of the elements that it's boasting is that it...

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