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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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...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation briefly removes its NDA

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The NDA for Ashes of Creation is gone! Quickly, everyone, take the time to post as many screenshots as possible... aaaaand it's back again. Seriously,...
Behold. Nothing.

Chronicles of Elyria will let players choose their game worlds in upcoming map voting

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It's virtually every MMO player's dream to be able to shape the worlds they inhabit, but Soulbound Studios is allowing backers of its in-development...
Switchy!

Dauntless introduces a new behemoth, the Riftstalker

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Something wicked Dauntless's way comes. This year's Dark Harvest has just gotten a whole lot darker with the arrival of a brand-new behemoth, the...

Star Citizen’s Around the Verse recaps Squadron 42 and CitizenCon 2948

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Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner are back after CitizenCon last week with another Star Citizen Around the Verse video, and this time it's all...

Ascent: Infinite Realm resurfaces with new images

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You guys remember Ascent Infinite Realm, right? PUBG publisher Bluehole's upcoming fantasy-steampunk mega-MMORPG? The game's official Twitter account has been silent since last spring,...
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Crowfall shows off some of the monstrous wildlife for players to fight

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You will be fighting lots of monsters in Crowfall, but thanks to the force of the Hunger many of today's monsters were yesterday's normal...

More Rockstar devs speak up on crunch as Red Dead Redemption 2 official launch trailer drops

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Rockstar is trying to get the Red Dead Redemption 2 narrative back on track this week after one of the company bosses casually humble-bragged...
From a certain point of view.

Crowfall shows off its animations for making the Guinecean moves

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The latest video from the Crowfall team covers both a monstrous race and bones! How could it be anything less than seasonally appropriate? Of...

Fallout 76: Absurd merch, the discless Platinum edition, and criticism of ‘nuke porn’

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The second part of this article is about something serious, so we're starting with the ridiculous first, k? And here it is: Bethsoft has...

Vampire MMO Shadow’s Kiss makes good on mature content

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If you were super sad when Revival and World of Darkness closed up shop, you should probably point your eyeballs over at Shadow's Kiss....

Ashes of Creation temporarily drops alpha NDA, allow streamers to broadcast live footage

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Saturday night, the folks at Intrepid Studios lifted the NDA on the Ashes of Creation alpha for a few hours, allowing streamers to broadcast...
How does this need to be said.

Worlds Adrift says PvE servers didn’t ‘split a tiny playerbase’ but instead ‘added to it’

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When was the last time you heard an MMO studio outright admit it was wrong? It's pretty rare, for sure. Bossa Studios says as...

Camelot Unchained continues work on optimization, characters 2.0, and animation 2.0

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The folks at City State Entertainment are back again for another weekly Camelot Unchained Top Tenish update. This week is largely more of the...

Star Citizen’s CitizenCon didn’t help make as much money as last year, but damn it made a lot

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So, how much money did Star Citizen make last week as a result of its CitizenCon push and concomitant ship sale? A lot. Eurogamer's...

Torchlight Frontiers takes player feedback on horizontal progression, details development updates

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Earlier this month, the folks at PWE-published Echtra Games took to the Torchlight subreddit to open up a conversation with the community regarding the dev...

Lead programmer: ‘There is no hope for Greed Monger’

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The long-troubled Greed Monger, a Kickstarted sandbox MMO that produced a remarkable project implosion, took an interesting turn last week when its former lead...

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