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]

Shroud of the Avatar makes world maps, fixes quests, and gives fluffy dogs to subscribers

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It might be considered a shame that the extremely fluffy good boi pictured above is associated with a game like Shroud of the Avatar,...

Blue Protocol’s latest Japanese teaser trailer release focuses on character creation options

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The parade of teaser hype trailers continues to spew forth from Blue Protocol's Japanese dev team. First it was about locations, then it was...

Anvil Empires dates its next pre-alpha tests for May 30 and May 31

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Testing is continuing to move along for Siege Camp's in-development medieval warfare MMO Anvil Empires as the studio has announced plans to begin its...
So snipe.

Betawatch: Blue Protocol delays global launch to next year

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Can a game break your heart even before it launches? Yes. Yes it can. Case in point, Blue Protocol has broken what little remains...

Sandbox space sim Starbase’s development has been almost non-existent for a year now

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Why go to (virtual) outer space when you can send robots to handle all of the peril for you? That's the thinking behind the...

Whatever happened to Project Genom, Inferna, and KurtzPel?

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Welcome back to another edition of Whatever Happened To, a recap of MMOs we'd forgotten about but deserve some probing. Project Genom: Get your F...

Pow Vista is an open beta mobile MMO that blends skateboarding, old-school combat, and creature collecting

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Skateboarding, mobile MMO gaming, combat reminiscent of Old School RuneScape, and Pokemon-like creature collecting mechanics is quite the ingredients list for a game stew,...

Trove announces plans for a weekend network test intended to ‘help shape the future’ of the MMO

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Psst. Hey, Trove player. Yeah, you. You wanna "help shape the future" of your colorful little voxelbox world? Then you should totally check out...

Fractured Online opens its data migration tool to let previous players carry their account information over

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Dynamight Studios' full stewardship of its own MMORPG Fractured Online continues with the opening of a data migration portal, which will let previous players...

Star Citizen debuts the RSI Lynx luxury rover and the Tumbril Storm tank

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Star Citizen promised that its Invictus Launch Week would be full of reveals, and with the current showcase featuring Tumbril and RSI vehicles, it...
Oops.

New World shares PTR patch notes for its second season but is forced to delay public testing

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Were you looking forward to the upcoming new season in New World? Then you were maybe champing at the bit to get in to...

Cube World creator emerges from hibernation to announce Cube World Omega

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I admit I did a double-take last night when Wolfram von Funck aka Wollay's Twitter account whirred to life after nearly four years of...

Blue Protocol shows off combat trailer ahead of next month’s Japanese launch

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While we may be a bit down in the dumps at the news that Blue Protocol's release was delayed to 2024 for those of...

Diablo IV posts early access and launch schedule along with new live action trailer

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With just a little over a week to go before the forces of hell are overrun by the forces of nerds in Diablo IV,...

Craftopia confirms a June launch window for its large-scale seamless world update

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The weird and wide-open survival RPG Craftopia is about to get more wide-open than before, as the seamless world update that developer Pocket Pair...

BitCraft’s pre-alpha test of progression and cooperation systems runs through May 31

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The 10th pre-alpha test session for BitCraft that developer Clockwork Labs has been promising for some time now has finally gotten its timetable: The...

Valheim offers another round of update sneak peeks as it tests a performance improvement patch

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They're often vague and sometimes meager: They're the development blog posts of Valheim, and we've got a fresh one from the game's website that...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen dates June pre-alpha and talks about designing its healer classes

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Healers. They're arguably the linchpin of a holy trinity MMORPG's party makeup, but playing as one can sometimes speak to a very specific kind...

Bungie makes the case for Marathon, its brand-new extraction shooter

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Yesterday we reported that Bungie was resurrecting a long-dormant shooter franchise with the announcement of its upcoming sci-fi PvP game, Marathon. While the original...

Throne & Liberty kicks off Korean closed beta as we wait for the fall launch

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In a year when we've seen some pretty extreme delays already for anticipated titles, it falls to the least-delayed MMOs to offer the most...

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