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]

Occupy White Walls sets off a Cambrian Explosion, adding new assets, artworks, and features

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Bizarre indie art-museum-creator Occupy White Walls has released its latest major update, Cambrian Explosion, which introduces two new vendors, camera enhancements, new artworks to...

ReWorld divides into two games, shows off in-development biomes

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It's time to check back in with ReWorld Online, the customizable MMORPG that players such as yourself will be able to fashion into a...

Legends of Aria details the upcoming Allegiance system revamp in its latest dev blog

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As development on Citadel Studios' upcoming sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria chugs steadily along, the devs are continuously tweaking and revamping the game's systems,...

Camelot Unchained opens doors (or creates them, anyway) and previews new animations in latest update

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Camelot Unchained's first weekly update for the month is here, and it's got all the latest news on what the City State Entertainment team...
So very real.

Chronicles of Elyria delays ducal land selection due to technical issues

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If you were looking forward to selecting your duchy in Chronicles of Elyria today, we have bad news for you, as the development staff has...

Star Citizens, check your hangars – the recent $0 CCU purge wiped out some valuable chassis

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Heads-up if you're a Star Citizen backer: Last week's update to the Cross Chassis Upgrade system has apparently gone awry. That's the system that...

The MOP Up: Multiplayer co-op survival game Eden Rising launches this month

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What do you get when you mix No Man's Sky with a dash of Fortnite and Rend? Eden Rising, by our judge. The game...

Make My MMO: Oath’s Kickstarter success, Star Citizen’s funding drama

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen made headlines once again thanks to a rather brutal article on Forbes that references everything from Chris...

Dual Universe is embracing player-to-player trading, not just an auction hall

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While many MMO players are slowly becoming inured to the idea that some modern MMOs won't have proper player-to-player trading, I'll never be one...
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Betawatch: Star Citizen is sending you to space for free this weekend

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It's time to go take a spin in Star Citizen because that game is free, free flying. (Thank you, Tom Petty.) Yes, everyone can jump in and...

Elder Scrolls Blades releases fresh early access trailer and patch

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The Elder Scrolls: Blades is having a bit of a rough release, what with the endless string of criticism over its business model and...

Playcraft is new indie multiplayer game-building game now on Kickstarter

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So here's a fun new multiplayer toy that just landed on Kickstarter: It's called Playcraft, and it's being billed by Bebop Games' creator Adrien...

Elder Scrolls Online deep-dives Elsweyr’s Necromancer class – not just a ‘sorcerer with undead pets’

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Do you pronounce it knee-crow or nay-crow? Either way, you're getting a heaping helping of Necromancer goodness out of Elder Scrolls Online right now...

Inside Star Citizen discusses the 3.5 flight model, collecting feedback, and the Banu Defender

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The weekly Star Citizen development video is out once again, and this time it's all about that flight model, which is something that the...

Indie MMORPG Oath has successfully funded on Kickstarter at nearly twice its original ask

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Oath has been a bit of an anomaly on the Kickstarter scene this spring: Ten days into its campaign, it had raised only $6000,...

Dual Universe begins a drastic overhaul of container storage, inventories, and item weight

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There's something about space trucking that I adore a whole lot, personally. The logistics of managing weight and fuel load, planning of the route,...

Camelot Unchained discusses dev tools, art and animation progress in latest newsletter

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Camelot Unchained's end-of-April newsletter has arrived, and as always it's stuffed to the brim with plenty of behind-the-scenes info on the game's development progress....
I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road until I get a poncho.

Red Dead Online opens the gates to Open Target Races for Xbox One players

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When Rockstar introduced the new Target Racing activity to Red Dead Online last month, PlayStation 4 players were given exclusive early access to the...

Ashes of Creation talks architecture and building tools in the newest dev diaries video

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The latest entry in Ashes of Creation's ongoing dev diaries video series is out, and following in the vein of its predecessor, which gave...

Star Citizen celebrates the arrival of its alpha 3.5 update with a week-long Free Fly promotion

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Tomorrow, Star Citizen's alpha 3.5 update is lifting off, and to celebrate the occasion, Cloud Imperium Games is making the game free for anyone...

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