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]

Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia’s quests, Dual Universe’s 30K, SOTA’s spring

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, spring has sprung in Shroud of the Avatar, whose latest community newsletter teases a bunny basket full of...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation wants itself some big organized PvP fights

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So Ashes of Creation is delaying its testing phase, that's not a big deal. The game still has plans for nice big and meaty...
woosh!

OrbusVR: Reborn previews new dungeons and talent tweaks ahead of final beta test

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The folks at OrbusVR have been hard at work since they announced the game's first major expansion/complete overhaul, OrbusVR: Reborn, back in August of...

Population Zero releases world design video ahead of weekend alpha and next week’s update

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Ahead of this weekend's alpha play test, the Population Zero developers have posted up a video ostensibly about world design. You'll need to flip...
Paint with all the colors of the etc.

Legends of Aria makes its roadmap public as it preps its experimental test server

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Legends of Aria's new community lead has a new letter for the playerbase this week, and while it's not bristling with critical info, it's...

Star Citizen previews urban dystopia and in-game holidays, drops February studio report

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Very few settings in games spark as much joy in me as a glowy rainbow neon urban cyberpunk dystopia, so that makes this week's...

First Impressions: My first three days of survival in Outlaws of the Old West

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Back in 1999, I lived out in Colorado Springs and basked in the wide-open spaces, the scenic mountains, the towering mesas, and the feeling...

CryoFall straddles massively multiplayer with a scifi survival experience

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Question: How many players on a server does it take to graduate a game from "multiplayer" to "massively multiplayer?" And should there be an...
Let's war ov

Crowfall previews the PvP map structure of its first campaign in feature walkthrough video

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Since its original Kickstarter reveal, Crowfall has been absolutely clear on its key conceit: PvP. This is a PvP MMO. In fact, the devs...

Dual Universe counts 30,000 simulated players on the same planet in its latest alpha

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If you're gonna be an MMO, we wanna see massive: lots of people on a server, lots of people in a fight. Dual Universe...

Pagan Online appears to be what happens when you cross Diablo with a MOBA

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So, what will it be like to get into the real loot-grindy aspects of Pagan Online when the game is available for everyone? It's hard...
Oh. Hunger beasties. Cool.

Crowfall buffs Hunger shard hunting by improving rewards and skills

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The most recent patch to Crowfall quietly tweaked a rather important aspect of the game's spawning Hunger crystals, and it's a small change but a...

Xbox One hopeful Bless Unleashed reveals its next class: The Berserker

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Bandai Namco has released another trailer for yet another class launching with Bless Unleashed when it hits Xbox One later this year: This one's...

Ashes of Creation says it’s aiming for the ‘largest organized PVP battles of any MMORPG’ in castle siege blog

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Buried in last week's news that Intrepid was delaying Ashes of Creation's next phase of alpha one (and therefore delaying its release into next...

Dauntless patch introduces us to a new frosty behemoth and revamps hammer combat

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If you have been following Dauntless as you should have, then you would know that a new behemoth was on the horizon, but that's...

Red Dead Online puts a wild-west twist on capture the flag with its new Spoils of War game mode

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There's nothing like a good old-fashioned showdown, and the folks at Rockstar know it, which is why they've just expanded Red Dead Online's Showdown...
But seriously, what's Damien's deal this week?

The Division 2’s early access begins as Ubisoft details the living world endgame

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Early access is officially underway for The Division 2 for preorder buyers ahead of the formal launch this weekend. If you're in, you're already...

Choose My Adventure: New tools, same flailing in Legends of Aria

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So, full disclosure here: This edition of Choose My Adventure is going to come from a perspective of limited play time. My "real" job...

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...

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