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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Dauntless is offline prepping its massive Mastery system patch for tomorrow

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Dauntless is offline for extended maintance until tomorrow, but it's all for a good cause: the launch of OB 0.7.1. OK, so maybe that...

VR MMORPG OrbusVR reboots and expands as as OrbusVR: Reborn today

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It's a big day for MMOs - and MMO players who've been itching to see more titles on VR. That's because OrbusVR officially launches...
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Crowfall Q&A discusses major armor rebalance and being too ‘hardcore’ for regular gamers

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Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Thomas Blair might be losing their minds a tiny bit in ArtCraft's latest Q&A video, but we're here for...

Torchlight’s alpha patch tomorrow is gonna be off the rails

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Furbish up your Arc clients, folks: Torchlight Frontiers' alpha is gearing up for a big patch tomorrow, the star of which is surely the...

Camelot Unchained was worried the ‘Siege of Cherry Keep’ stress test would melt your computer

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Camelot Unchained backers over the weekend had the opportunity to kick the crap out of the servers for a planned stress test, and apparently...

Sandbox MMORPG Oath’s Kickstarter has passed its core crowdfunding goal

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Back at the beginning of April - which incidentally seems like a thousand years ago now, but nope - we learned about a brand-new...

Make My MMO: City of Titans’ enemy mob design, Oath’s Kickstarter, and Star Citizen 3.5

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's been superhero insanity, and I don't even mean City of Heroes. We got updates from Ship of Heroes...
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Betawatch: Peria Chronicles is actually heading to beta, gosh

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This one's personally important to me. Peria Chronicles is a game that looked very interesting to me from the moment it was revealed and...

Ship of Heroes says it’s gonna have the ‘best UI in the galaxy’

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While the superhero MMO community is buzzing about City of Heroes, serious work on its legal and modern spiritual successors continues, including Ship of...

Fractured’s second Alpha 1 test brings more housing, a new biome, and spiders this June

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By all accounts, the first Alpha 1 test for Fractured was a solid success, barring minor annoyances and login issues. So now it's full...

Atlas shuts down the Empire server in favor of an NA PvE server and announces Easter plans

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Hot on the heels of update 1.5 to Atlas comes this week's Captains Log dev blog, which provides word of the Empire PvP server's...

First impressions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr: Little cats fighting big lizards

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After a week like this week, you might have forgotten that Elder Scrolls Online dropped its latest chapter on the public test server. Like...

Caravan Stories announces summer launch date for console

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We almost had given up hope that we would ever see Caravan Stories make the jump from Japan to the west, but yesterday brought...

Crowfall outlines revisions to its death system ahead of update 5.90

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Dying is inevitable. Not just in the greater universal sense, but specifically in Crowfall, a game that features PvP battles where factions of players...

Heroes and Villains works on crafting story, villain content, and sewers

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It has been some time since we last checked in with Heroes and Villains, perhaps the most overlooked of all of the City of...

Bless Unleashed previews the Crusader in its latest class video

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Ah, the classic sword-and-board character class. Staple of the RPG genre. How does one make a class that wields an oversized steak knife and...

Dauntless outlines progression, hunt, and reward changes coming in the Path of the Slayer update

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Dauntless is preparing another big shift to its major systems in just under a week. The Path of the Slayer update is imminent, bringing...
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Peria Chronicles has announced its first test phase starting on May 9

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After a long silence, it looks like Peria Chronicles is finally moving into a state of active testing! Or it is soon, anyhow; registration for...
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Star Citizen patch 3.5 is now playable for all, including playing as a lady

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At long last - seriously, it's been weeks of delay - everyone can play a female character in Star Citizen. Everyone who can play...

Ashes of Creation examines the lore – and swanky outfits – of the Iron Lion order

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The latest development update from Ashes of Creation delves into the lore of the organization known as the Iron Lion, a "fairly new order...

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