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]

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World of Warcraft: Classic will have an RP-PVP server

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There's not really such a thing in modern World of Warcraft as an RP-PvP server, since the current expansion basically did away with PvP...

Broke Protocol outlines work done to its backend and lays out rules for player-created content

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The devs of the online city RPG Broke Protocol are very much hard at work on the game's arrival to its 1.0 update, and...

A stunning reveal! Witness footage of the Dragon Ball Z MMORPG from closed beta!

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The last time I played a multiplayer-minded game based on the Dragon Ball Z franchise was Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, which was... OK. It...
Move it move it.

Black Desert: PC’s fishing event and Archer tweaks, Xbox One’s Kamasylvia, and PS4’s beta events

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With Black Desert's current rapid pace of development - and sprawling console reach - we'll forgive this week's PC patch for being a little...

EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile edition EVE Echoes hits alpha later this month

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EVE Online is taking another step closer to mobile with EVE Echoes: Infinite Galaxy Mobile (yes, we know that's confusing!), which CCP and NetEase...

World of Warcraft Classic will let you reserve your name on August 12

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From the time of this story's publishing, you have precisely six days to come up with your most clever and pun-loaded moniker. That's when...

Legends of Aria hits Steam early access today with the PvP patch, a sale, and a free month of sub for loyalists

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Legends of Aria's big day has arrived - or will when the gates open today around 3 p.m. EDT. A few weeks ago, Citadel Studios...

EVE-inspired MMORTS Starborne celebrates its third alpha server launch

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Have you ever heard of Starborne? It's a large-scale MMORTS where players seek to control territory in a massive map over individual eight week-long...

Camelot Unchained floods the beta’s countryside with giants

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Be scared. Be very scared. The team at City State Entertainment is going nuts playing with Camelot Unchained's sliders, and the end result of...

The Repopulation checks in with an update on vehicles and mounts

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It's been a couple of months since we heard much from The Repopulation, but delays ensured that the most recent dev blog combines July and...

Crowfall’s July ACE Q&A dissects the Fortunes of War update

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The end of July saw Crowfall's latest ACE Q&A session, which was held back on account of J. Todd Coleman's work travel. Both he...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s latest roundtable discussion is all about programming

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Nothing about programming is sexy, as far as my plebeian mind can ascertain. Its lines of digital eldritch language that weave together the threads...

Starbase’s latest videos demo ship sabotage and small-scale ship battles

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Robot-centric sandbox-building MMO Starbase just isn't gonna let up with the barrage of videos, and you know what? We're OK with that. Finnish developer...
Be here now.

Make My MMO: City of Titans devs release lore novel, Ship of Heroes talks character creation beta

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Kickstarted City of Heroes spiritual successor City of Titans released a novel penned by Jack Snyder from Missing Worlds...

Ship of Heroes will open some of Apotheosis City in its upcoming character creation beta

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Earlier this week, we reported on the upcoming August beta for the Character Creation Tool (CCT) in Ship of Heroes, alluding to the fact...

Inside Star Citizen talks New Babbage, item misfires, and the law and lore of the Stanton system

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The weekly video digest from Star Citizen is out there once more, and this week's episode has some pretty interesting topics. We get a...
Very mature.

WoW Classic’s next global stress test is dated for August 8 and 9

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Ever since WoW Classic's closed beta ended a tad early back in July, would-be Vanilla players have been anxious to get back in there....
Nothing really changes.

Red Dead Online teases new roles as watchdog group questions Rockstar’s tax history

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Red Dead Online has been a bit of a non-entity this year, contrary to our hopes anyway. The MMO-ish version of Red Dead Redemption...

Camelot Unchained’s 57th newsletter discusses how features are kept in and cut from MMOs

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Camelot Unchained's 57th newsletter dropped this week, providing a run-down of what City State Entertainment has been up to the last month for those...

Cyberespionage MMO Spycursion plans a hackable media system with blackmailable journalists

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Earlier this spring, I was disappointed by the failed Kickstarter for Spycursion. Defun Games had put up an MMO intended to support a "living...

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