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]

Corepunk coming to early access on November 26th, still requires ‘significant polishing in all directions’

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen isn't the only MMO that surprised us this week with an early access release announcement. After years of troubled...

Echoes of Elysium’s ‘airship survival loop is nearly complete as a playable experience’

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Loric Games' multiplayer airship survivalbox Echoes of Elysium continues development - and continues teasing that development - in its latest dev blog, which this...
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Team-based PvP FPS Concord preps beta test for this weekend

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Last month the team vs. team FPS world was introduced to a new arrival in the form of Concord, a 5v5 shooter from developer...

Bellwright’s latest patch brings FSR support and another lengthy list of fixes and adjustments

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The co-op survivalbox of Bellwright has once again elected to use its latest patch release to crush some more of the game's bugs and...

Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds Kodan are basically cute environmentalist bears

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Before today, I might've said that nobody loves talking about bears as much as our writers, who keep penning articles about cool MMO bears,...

Raph Koster lays out the (first) four pillars of design for his sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach

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I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is that Raph Koster's Stars Reach is probably a good long while away...

Wayfinder preps a huge quality-of-life patch as it journeys toward 1.0

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How many launches is Airship Syndicate's Wayfinder going to get in its lifetime? We had the early access release last year, the Echoes re-launch...

Crowdfunded MMORPG Pantheon Rise of the Fallen is launching early access in December

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Who had this one on the ol' 2024 bingo card? Pantheon is gunning for an ambitious early access launch in December - yes, that...

Fractured will release next patch ahead of July 24 new server and full game launch

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The deal has been altered; pray Dynamight Studios doesn't alter it further. Only this time the alteration will be a welcome one to fans...

Star Citizen readies a returning community helping event, preps cargo updates and new event for alpha 3.24

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Star Citizen is always looking toward a future of things to do and that throughline continues in the game's usual weekly update post, which...

New World has delayed its Aeternum console closed beta two weeks to July 25

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When Amazon first announced the Aeternum reboot and console port for New World, it noted that it would be rolling out beta testing all...

NetEase’s post-apoc survival MMO Once Human is live – and already tearing up Steam

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NetEase has been extremely busy the last few years, cranking out games and picking up studios to make more for what it apparently thinks...

The Quinfall previews maritime activities and trading ahead of today’s second closed beta

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You've signed up. You've been selected. You thought it was happening on June 22nd but that was delayed. Now the time is here, as...

Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Project Ghost is still years out, but plans public playtest for ‘fairly soon’

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Fantastic Pixel Castle announced that Project Ghost recently crossed its second prototype milestone, with the first happening back in April, and the studio is...

EVE Online outlines plans to continue its nullsec focus and release Vanguard to Steam early access

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EVE Online fans have gotten their first taste of what the rest of this year is looking like for their favorite gankbox, as CCP...

Wayfinder promises it’s working on releasing the Echoes update to PlayStation fans

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Airship Syndicate stated its intention to bring Wayfinder's game-changing Echoes update to PlayStation this summer. With the calendar sliding into mid-July, those fans might...

Corepunk wraps up its 50,000 player alpha 3 test: ‘Better than the last one’

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The third major alpha for Corepunk is officially history, as Artificial Core wrapped up the test and thanked players for their help in identifying...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 43 hits the PC public test server with new housing additions

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It was foretold in the Elder Scrolls that a test server update would arrive, bringing a way for people to peer into others' in-game...
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City of Heroes Homecoming begins public testing of new raid and Marine-themed support set

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The totally legal and licensed City of Heroes Homecoming (isn't that fun to say?!) has rolled out Issue 28: Page 1, dubbed Legacy, to...

Vehicle-building survivalbox TerraTech Worlds updates planet settings and automation

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It's been roughly four months since the vehicular-focused survival sandbox TerraTech Worlds entered into early access, which is more than enough time for us...