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]

You can now buy ships right from a showroom floor in Star Citizen’s alpha

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Heads-up to Star Citizen testers and watchers: A new patch to the 3.3 alpha rolled out yesterday, most notably adding functionality to Teach's Ship...

Rumor: Black Desert’s Xbox One open beta begins November 8

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Betcha forgot all about the fact that Black Desert was still slated for a console port! Welp, it's still happening, and in fact, it's...

Wild West Online’s studio collapsed, but it’s now soft rebooting with separate battle royale and building modes

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Remember back in July, when Wild West Online starting murmuring about a soft relaunch and rework of major game systems? The game had only...

Project Gorgon delivers both Halloween and a patch in one fell swoop

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Something twisted and sinister is slithering through the lands of Project Gorgon -- and it is up to you to find it, fight it,...
I LOVE THE NIGHT LIFE, BABY

Ship of Heroes shows off the lighting of its day and night cycle in a new video

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If you want to be really pedantic, the sun does not rise or set in Apotheosis City, the home setting of Ship of Heroes....
If you look to your left, you will see a sad person.

BlizzCon tix holders can download (but not play) WoW Classic’s demo right now

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BlizzCon won't be here until late next week, but ticket holders can get a jump on the two-day convention by downloading the hotly anticipated...
I'm on a mount!

Dark and Light shows off its improvements in Shard of Faith while prepping new fixes

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Have you seen everything there is to see in Dark and Light's Shard of Faith update? Be honest. It's all right if it's not...

Daybreak confirms that ex-H1Z1 sandbox Just Survive is still sunsetting tomorrow

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It looks like Just Survive's sunset is really happening. Back in August, Daybreak announced that it was sunsetting the sandboxier zombie survival half of the...

Bless Online has officially launched out of early access open beta as a free-to-play MMORPG

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It's been nothing but a whirlwind for Neowiz's Bless Online these last few years. After an aborted attempt to get the gorgeous Korean MMORPG...

Red Dead Redemption 2 launches at 7 a.m. Thursday – here’s the lowdown

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I gotta say, I've ordered some extra popcorn for this week, just in anticipation of watching Fallout 76 and Red Dead Redemption 2 clobber...

Fallout 76 hits beta today as Bethesda tempers expectations with caution for ‘spectacular issues’

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To commemorate Fallout 76's momentous transition into beta testing, the folks at Bethesda Game Studios have published an open letter to their community, in...

New World’s Brightwood sets the perfect creepy autumn scene

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If you're in the alpha for New World, don't tell us about it. Just wink knowingly at your screen. Oh, it's all of you?...

Camelot Unchained teases its new crafting UI, Viking armor, and rubble technology

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Crafting UI! That's the highlight of Camelot Unchained's latest weekly update, at least for me, as the Vox Magus slowly takes shape. "In previous...
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Fallout 76 tweets about a new faction, the Responders

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Factions in Fallout 76 are going to be different than they were in prior Fallout games, but they're still going to play an important...
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Valve’s Artifact is delaying and cropping its public beta

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Sometimes, shortening beta periods is a good sign. Sometimes delays on beta are... well, perhaps not a good sign, but just a necessary one....
You've seen my dog.

World of Warcraft Classic will log you off after a set amount of time for the demo, even at home

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We hope you weren't planning marathon play sessions for World of Warcraft Classic if you pick up the virtual ticket demo. Not because you...
I still love you, robot.

Torchlight Frontiers’ relic weapons make for strange and fun build options

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Talking about "horizontal progression" is all well and good for Torchlight Frontiers, but how will this MMOARPG actually make good on alternative forms of...

The MOP Up: Mutant Year Zero breaks down the barriers

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I think a lot of us unfamiliar with the IP might be giving Funcom's upcoming Mutant Year Zero a wary look and a wide...

EVE Vegas 2018: Project Nova pre-alpha is playable with alpha signups open now

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Two years ago at EVE Fanfest 2016, CCP Games showed off a demo of a new first-person shooter codenamed Project Nova that rose from...

Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous’ exploration reveal, Star Citizen’s $1650 ship

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Frontier has been showing off what's coming in Elite Dangerous' Beyond - Chapter Four, specifically the exploration bits...

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