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]

Snail Games’ Outlaws of the Old West rustle up a Steam early access launch

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Form a posse with your best friends and ride out of that fantasy game and into the old west, for today Snail Games has...
Same old story.

World of Warcraft: Classic is now planned to get six phases of content over time

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As we approach the planned launch of World of Warcraft: Classic, it turns out we're getting a larger number of content updates than were originally...

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is basically Pokemon Go with wands and deatheaters

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Today, Niantic let loose with a big blast of official details of its upcoming ARG mobile game that takes place both in our world and...

Camelot Unchained beta testers peek at the characters 2.0 revamp and new crafting UI

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One of the things that drew me to Camelot Unchained from the very beginning was its clothing and armor, of all things. Yes, I'll...
oh the pain, the pain

Legends of Aria is working to fix a nasty bug putting player homes into foreclosure

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If you thought you were coming to virtual worlds to avoid the stresses of real life - like, say, paying off your mortgage -...

Legal proceedings between Crytek and Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium move to alternative dispute resolution

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Just when we all thought the matter had seen a major roadblock in the proceedings, a new chapter in the game engine lawsuit between...

The Daily Grind: What do you think of Torchlight Frontiers so far?

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Torchlight is up there with my most favorite franchises of all time. The existing multiplayer ARPGs are just pure fun, with bubbly colorful graphics...

The Stream Team: Another attempted look inside Torchlight Frontiers’ alpha

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If you missed the stream for the Torchlight Frontiers alpha from MJ's perspective, there were a few technical hitches that caused her some problems....

Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar shutters physical office, Ashes of Creation delays next alpha

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, we've seen what could be potential setbacks for two larger crowfunding MMORPGs. First, Shroud of the Avatar studio Portalarium...

Chronicles of Elyria vows to ‘bring the storm’ this year, according to new dev blog

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Stormiest future -- or storm-bringer? Chronicles of Elyria hopes to be the latter according to its newest developer blog. "Last year, people told us...
All right, here we go.

Betawatch: Torchlight Frontiers hits its third alpha so hard it breaks all the NDAs

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Yes, you read that right. Torchlight Frontiers hit its NDA so hard that it done broke. There's no NDA for the third alpha test,...

Amazon’s New World MMO dispatches more alpha invites, teases locales and armor images

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It's been a while since we checked in with New World's Twitter feed and... ahhh! A whole bunch of miniature videos and screenshots and other ephemera to tide everyone over. To wit: Here's an animated setting of an outpost.

Atlas previews March milestone claim system changes and procedural shipwrecks

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Last week, Atlas gave players their first peek at what they can expect with the March milestone update coming later this month, and in...

Star Citizen’s hair tech has come a long way, as proven in this week’s Around the Verse

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Sure, obsess about your space pixels and starships, but the spacelegs content in Star Citizen is still most compelling to me, and that's exactly...
oh, wait, you're serious

Here’s what The Division 2’s ‘living world’ endgame is going to look like

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If your body is ready for The Division 2's launch, better get your mind right too: Ubisoft ran a state-of-the-game stream this week, and...
GO LEFT YOU IDIOT

Pantheon has begun sharing VIP dev roundtables with the public

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Are you ready to be invited into Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's VIP lounge? One of the perks of being a VIP supporter of...
I node what I node.

Kickstarted MMORPG Ashes of Creation delays alpha one slightly for infrastructure refactoring

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If you're one of the folks still wondering what's going on with Ashes of Creation since it began alpha testing a battle royale mode...

Prosperous Universe prepares to release its new game world this Friday

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It's the end of the world as Prosperous Universe players know it, but they should feel fine, as out of the Big Bang of...

Star Citizen’s new tutorial videos get you flying without the fuss

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Not to be presumptive or anything, but this is one post that you might want to bookmark if you are ever thinking about trying...
Surprising no one, we have not pictured the thing we don't know about.

Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss is working on a new family-friendly game code-named Project V

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We know that Project V (or "Project Five" if you want to cheekily reference roman numerals) is in development from Pearl Abyss. We know...

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