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]

Cyclic.

The Cycle postpones its sixth alpha test for longer access while adding stress tests

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Bad news first for fans of in-dev survival sandbox The Cycle. The game's sixth alpha test has been pushed back by two weeks, so it'll...
WE... STILL... FUNCTION (maybe)

Betawatch: Project Genom is remaking itself

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The state of play for Project Genom appears to be a tear-down and rebuild. After a long period of silence the game announced that it...
Why must life be so hard?

Daybreak opens PlanetSide Arena closed beta signups, promises forums next week

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Daybreak's announcement yesterday that it's delayed PlanetSide Arena's early access launch from January 29th to March 26th didn't seem to surprise any MMO players...
Kerbang.

Red Dead Online fixes its battle royale matchmaking, hands out gold bars

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We all know from history class that the wild west was won via a series of 32-player battle royale matches that happened across the...

EA rushes to add more server capacity for Anthem’s overloaded VIP demo

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Anthem's VIP demo is live today, and everything is just fine! Well, maybe not. BioWare maybe doesn't have quite enough servers for the massive...

Star Citizen’s Around the Verse covers intuitive flight controls and landscaping desolate moons

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Cloud Imperium's Sean Tracy and Steve Bender headline this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, and if you didn't expect clowning, then...
Meeeeeeerp

Crowfall tries out its updated scoring system in a new round of campaigns

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A new round of test campaigns has started in the world of Crowfall, and this time around, the game has been updated with the...
No word on whether or not you get two comely maidens of virtue true.

Dark & Light offers up a pig costume for Chinese new year

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It's the Year of the Boar everywhere, including in Dark & Light, and that means it's time for this year's Chinese new year event to...

Kickstarted sci-fi MMOFPS Pantropy will hit early access on January 31

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Hey, remember Pantropy? We first began covering this sci-fi MMOFPS back in 2017; since then, it's run two Kickstarters, the first of which was...
Comptrollers.

Daybreak is delaying PlanetSide Arena’s early access launch to March

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Daybreak has announced that it's delaying PlanetSide Arena's planned early access launch from January 29th to March 26th. "What we’ve discovered during playtesting is that...

SMITE launches early access closed beta on the Switch ahead of planned full cross-progression

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The 30 million people who've played SMITE on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 4 are welcoming a whole new generation of Nintendo Switch gamers as...
haha oops

Project Genom is quietly restructuring around SpatialOS

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Have you been watching Project Genom from the sidelines and noted in the back of your mind that it seems like the game has gone...
Slash heal.

Crowfall takes inventory in its latest dev diary

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Ahh, the humble inventory. It's a feature often taken for granted in MMOs; after all, you've gotta have somewhere to keep all of that...
apolitical

The Division 2 encourages players to get greedy with new Dark Zone mechanics

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We're only a couple of months out from the release of Ubisoft's MMO third-person-shooter The Division 2, which will be bringing with it a...

Guardians of Ember looks for a second chance as it starts closed beta testing

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Will the second time around prove more successful than the first? That's what Gameforge is hoping with Guardians of Ember. You may recall this action-RPG...

The Stream Team: Onward into more Outpost Zero

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With early access comes the inevitable server wipe. Massively OP's MJ is OK with this as she gets to find a new cool place...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Wrathstone DLC has hit the PTS – here’s what to expect

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Boom! Elder Scrolls Online players have known about the Wrathstone DLC for only a week, and now here we are welcoming its arrival on...
Caw! Polly is no longer the apex predator!

Atlas hackers strike again with the return of the dreaded air whale

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It's raining whales! What the heck, it's now raining whales?! Hoist sails! That's the ancient sea shanty players of Atlas were learning to sing when...

Astellia confirms it’ll be buy-to-play in the west, won’t be a ‘smash-and-grab’

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At PAX South this weekend, Astellia reps did indeed sit for a panel on the game as promised - a panel hosted, apparently "at...

Ashes of Creation yoinks another ex-Daybreaker, this one a community manager

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Ashes of Creation's Intrepid Studios has been grabbing up Daybreak devs left and right, and now it's hired a new one: Sarah "Lt. Toast"...

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