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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Crowfall examines its character creation for its first campaign

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The first campaign for Crowfall approaches swiftly, which means it's time to take a close look at how you're creating your characters in the...

Project C promises ‘meaningful persistency’ in a single game world

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It's been a while since we last checked in on the SpatialOS-powered Project C, which is being developed by ROKH studio Darewise. The team...

Check out the trailer for Torchlight Frontiers’ Forged class

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Oh yeah, you know a game is about to start really moving with its alphas when it starts dropping keys, business model blogs, and...

Brad McQuaid’s MMO Pantheon has snapped up Trion’s Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson

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Did you wonder where Linda "Brasse" Carlson was going to end up post-Trion Worlds' implosion? Because you had to know she'd end up somewhere;...

Lavish multiplayer space sandbox Astroneer is finally launching in February

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I have a rule that I'm pretty good at sticking to: I usually don't buy early access games. I've been burned too many times,...

Star Citizen’s alpha patch 3.3.5 introduces game’s ‘first planetary location,’ Hurston

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Star Citizen's latest alpha patch is now available on the public test server for Concierge and Subscriber players as well as the Evocati Test...

Torchlight Frontiers’ free-to-play model rejects pay-to-win and gambling schemes

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Given that Torchlight Frontiers is being published under Perfect World Entertainment, you're probably not going to be shocked to hear that the MMO will...

Torchlight Frontiers is recruiting for its weekend alpha stress test

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Check your inboxes and spamboxes, MMO fans, because it looks like Torchlight Frontiers alpha invites are headed your way. Perfect World says it's sending...
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Fallout 76’s staggered global rollout has begun and preloading is live

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It's Fallout 76's global rollout today, or rather tomorrow for us but our today for their tomorrow - confused yet? - with preloading going live...
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Legends of Aria will let you own land and rent it out for other people’s houses

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The big selling point for Legends of Aria's housing is that the system does not actually require you to build a house on your...

Camelot Unchained’s 64-bit client is functional, CSE shows off regional home islands

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What were the Camelot Unchained devs up to last week? Continuing work on rubble, the ability system, readied weapons, the particle system, armor mapping,...
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Saga of Lucimia is in love with World of Warcraft Classic

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You know who's super-duper excited that World of Warcraft Classic is becoming a thing? A competing fantasy MMO, that's who. Saga of Lucimia's dev team...

Amazon survival MMO New World reveals more and more of its alpha map

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All right, I've finally figured it out: New World's current map is basically Game of Thrones' map. Which is certainly appropriate, given the shared...

Fallout 76 beta: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

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Did you think it was possible for the bugs plaguing the no-wipe beta of Fallout 76 to get any worse? O ye, of little...

Make My MMO: Space sim 3001SQ is put on hold, Star Citizen rolls out 3.3.5 to the Evocati

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, we've got some sad news from MMO space colonization sim 3001SQ: Development on the game has been halted...

Valiance Online promises bi-weekly news updates going forward

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With the first phase of its crowdfunding campaign a success, Valiance Online looks ahead to the next steps for this superhero MMORPG. The creation...
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Betawatch: Torchlight Frontiers plans its alpha test for next week

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Aw dang, check out the big brain on Torchlight Frontiers! First the game teases us with forts, which get to be our homes in...

Crowfall’s November ACE Q&A delves into monumental 5.8 update

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November is looking to be a pretty big month for Crowfall. In addition to making a slew of recent improvements, such as the recently...

Star Citizen is delaying quite a bit of alpha 3.4 into 3.5 to make its December goal – including female toons

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Cloud Imperium's Sandi Gardiner and Chris Roberts are back with another episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse - with good news and bad...

Torchlight Frontiers’s first closed alpha test will start November 16th

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November is going to be a milestone month for Echtra Games's upcoming action-RPG Torchlight Frontiers, as the studio has announced that the game's first...

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