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]

MapleStory 2 answers questions about the head start and monetization

1
With only a couple of weeks to go before MapleStory 2 makes its big debut in the west, it is all hands on deck...

Star Citizen Evocati leaks show just what’s coming in next month’s 3.3 alpha

11
Star Citizen's 3.3 alpha just released to the Evocati testers, but it's under NDA, so there's nothing to talk about... Haha just kidding. Reddit is...
It looks like a rather familiar world.

New World has indeed started its alpha testing with a small group of players

22
Last week it was clear that New World had started sending its alpha invites, but there was not yet an actual alpha to test....

Torchlight Frontiers posts Milestone 13 post-mortem, discusses development progress and new features

2
The team at Echtra Games has been hard at work and recently completed Milestone 13 for its upcoming Torchlight Frontiers. In the milestone post-mortem...

The MOP Up: Diablo III kicks off its 15th season, Telltale Games is slammed with layoffs

12
You're already late to the party, what with Diablo III kicking off its 15th season this past Friday! No worries, you can still catch...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained works on Mages, the WoW Diary is about to Kickstart

2
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained has been working on everything from earrings to pathfinding, though the effort on Mages is probably going...

Star Wars Galaxies emulator Empire in Flames is launching its post-Endor PvP system

7
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column about my return to Star Wars Galaxies on the Legends server, an NGE emulator for...
Drift-slidin' away.

Betawatch: Worlds Adrift gets a new experience for PvE and tutorials

2
Are you a fan of Worlds Adrift but hate having any PvP in your mixture? Good news, then, you can go check out the...
Oh, yeah, this is fine. It's fine. It's fine! This is fine.

Tencent launches new battle royale title Ring of Elysium on Steam Early Access

3
A new challenger is approaching the quickly-growing (or, depending on who you ask, already too-crowded) arena of battle royale games: Tencent Games's first foray...

Dual Universe details upcoming improvements to Lua scripting system

3
One of the key selling points of Novaquark's upcoming self-billed "civilization building MMO" Dual Universe is the insane degree of customization it provides players...
Is this food?

Crowfall’s latest Q&A is all about power and food

0
Powers are pretty important in Crowfall, since they're the tools you use to do damage, heal, mitigate damage, and basically do everything else in...

Star Citizen ATV covers mining, the Hammerhead, and what’s been delayed to alpha 3.3.5

6
Space mining runs the risk of being extremely boring, as boring as long-distance freight hauling, but damn if the community video headlining Star Citizen's...
Remember, you were the ones who couldn't wait for this game.

Bless Online rolls back 18 hours of progress and offers players compensation

5
It was earlier this month when Bless Online unveiled its plan to compensate players for extended downtime and unexpected maintenance. Now the game gets...

Worlds Adrift previews PvE ruleset and new tutorial experience on its PTS

22
The Worlds Adrift public test server is back, and it's been updated with a test build of the upcoming Update 27, which introduces PvE...
Finding a handful of daunts.

Dauntless celebrates first birthday with The Middleman and matchmaking update

0
It's been a year now since Phoenix Labs's Monster-Hunter-inspired MMO Dauntless first commenced its closed beta testing. Now, as the game chugs along through...

Amazon is apparently batch-sending fresh New World alpha invites

16
It looks as if a new round of alpha invites are going to some folks signed up for Amazon's New World. Our tipster says he...

Interview: Bless Online on early access, pay-to-win, and its western refuge on Steam

13
Last night's bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game's Steam version in the west as the only...

MapleStory 2 opens up character name reservations, announces registration event ahead of October 10th launch

6
The folks at Nexon are gearing up for the imminent launch of MapleStory 2, the sequel to the studio's popular free-to-play sidescrolling, platforming beat-'em-up...

Red Dead Redemption 2’s multiplayer version, Red Dead Online, hits beta this November

15
When I mentioned I was writing this piece, one of my colleages politely asked why the heck we were covering Red Dead Redemption 2...

Chronicles of Elyria’s Searing Plague event concludes

3
Early last month, Chronicles of Elyria kicked off the first of its live community events, The Searing Plague, in which players were able to...

ADVERTISEMENT