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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Blue Protocol travels through time and space to bring you a new anime MMO

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Here's a fun surprise for those who need something those not into Naga and Viera this week: a brand-new MMORPG announcement from Bandai Namco. The...

Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar’s R67, Destiny’s Sword’s successful Kickstarter

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar released its 67th update. In the release instructions, the devs note the update was intended...
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Betawatch: Star Citizen might be opening up full persistence with alpha 3.6

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It feels weird when Star Citizen is selling you something that actually exists, huh? But the title is hard at work selling you tickets...

Steambirds Alliance is a new co-op bullet-hell shooter from the creators of Realm of the Mad God

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The creators of Realm of the Mad God are back with another chaotic co-op bullet hell, but this time they're abandoning the realm of...

Vrooooooom: Ship of Heroes demos its superspeed travel power

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Superspeed: It's probably the first travel power that most superhero MMO players pick up. And now it's in Ship of Heroes, per the game's...

Ashes of Creation’s animators labor at making ‘eye-popping’ movements

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Good animation is one of those MMO elements that is often taken for granted, yet we certainly notice when the movement and combat of...

The ‘season finale’ of Inside Star Citizen talks about AI and Alpha 3.6 features

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The end of the quarter apparently signals the "season finale" of Inside Star Citizen, the regular video series that highlights what's going on in...
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: Three thoughts on the latest WoW Classic stress test

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It's hard to find a whole lot to say about World of Warcraft: Classic at this point. Not in a bad sense, mind you;...
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Fractured’s second alpha begins in July with a focus on new content

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It's been a while since we heard anything out of one of the more tantalizing MMORPG sandboxes on our horizon, the SpatialOS-based Fractured, but...

Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers headstart has officially begun

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When our office has gone quiet because half the staff got up at 5 a.m. to sit at their computers, there's usually only one...

Fallout 76 vows better stability, rewards, and balance adjustments for Nuclear Winter battle royale

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Nuclear Winter: It's not, as one deeply confused Twitter citizen insisted, a desperate game's winter update being rolled out in the summer but rather...

Torchlight Frontiers plans pet overhaul in July 16’s Beast Buddies update

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It will never stop feeling weird to be reporting on genuine content updates for non-indie-studio MMOs in alpha, but here we are as PWE...
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First impressions: Astellia is acceptable – not astonishing, but certainly not atrocious

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There was a certain something that remotely intrigued me about Astellia Online before we reached the closed beta phase, so like any sensible human...
Speaking of deaths and looping...

Fallout 76 adjusts Nuclear Winter balance, squashes a whole bunch of bugs

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Fallout 76's recently introduced Nuclear Winter battle royale mode graduates from pre-beta to beta today as Bethesda rolls out the game's latest patch, which...

Wurm Online is tweaking legendary monster spawns, resetting a server, and adding new shadows

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Wurm Online's regular community newsletter has the usual sweep of different topics for fans of the sandbox MMORPG to look over. In this edition,...

The Stream Team: A first look at Astellia’s closed beta

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Astellia devs have issued a challenge: "CBT players will be working to break the server." There's no way Massively OP's MJ could pass this...

Temtem’s limited time preorder sale kicks off today on Discord

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If you've had your eyes on the Pokemon-esque MMO Temtem but weren't able or willing to fling your cash in its face during its...

Star Citizen announces the first sale dates for CitizenCon tickets and hints at persistence in 3.6

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It's almost CitizenCon season, which is most definitely an odd sentence to be typing about a sandbox MMO that hasn't even neared full release...

Torchlight Frontiers makes an elevator pitch for its intuitive, colorful world

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If you've been following Torchlight Frontiers closely, there is probably very little in this interview with Unreal Engine that is going to come as...
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Astellia’s first closed beta has officially begun today – here’s the trailer

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As promised, Astellia Online's initial closed beta test has begun as of this morning. "Closed beta testers will be providing the studio with invaluable data...

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