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]

E3 2018: BioWare’s Anthem has soloable co-op open world, no lockboxes, a sweet trailer, and a February 22 launch

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At this afternoon's EA Play, EA and BioWare have revealed Anthem's brand-new trailer. The game is now slated to launch on February 22nd, 2019. During...

Camelot Unchained ‘just barely’ on track for Beta 1

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The Camelot Unchained team is racing against its self-imposed deadline to get the MMO's first beta test out the door on July 4th --...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation gears up for Alpha One (June 8, 2018)

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Names are fun! Ashes of Creation has already held an alpha test, but that alpha zero. This upcoming test will be alpha one. And...

Special ops storm into Broke Protocol

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Blocky and cute they may be, but Broke Protocol's special operations soldiers are not to be pinched on the cheeks or tapped on their...

Dauntless has already seen over a million characters rolled in its open beta

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If you were worried that Dauntless might be crushed under the weight of the Monster Hunter Online release, fear not. If anything, Monster Hunter's...

Bless Online turns its attention to proper localization, hires new temporary support staff

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For all its early access faults, Bless Online's seemingly endless stream of producer updates and apologies ought to at least help assuage some of...

The Stream Team: A first look at claymation survival game Disdoored

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Do you like claymation? Do you like survival games? Well, the newly introduced Disdoored was made with you in mind! Massively OP's MJ is...

Chronicles of Elyria makes an unholy fusion of bear and otter, shows off ship designs

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Cute? Terrifying? Both at the same time? Chronicles of Elyria continues to experiment with mad science and interspecies breeding by creating an "otterbear" for...

Star Citizen deep-dives personal weapons as alpha 3.2 heads to the PTU

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Star Citizen's Around the Verse this week begins with a recap of what the studio is working on, including character animations, missions, planetary resources,...

Life is Feudal: MMO’s first big patch includes slavery, PvP battle arenas, and improved religion

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Didn't like the idea of slaves in Conan Exiles? Then you probably won't dig them in Life is Feudal either. The MMO version of...

Dual Universe wants you to join the blue collar workforce

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Flunked out of interstellar academy? Left your parents' home on Mars at 17 and decided to make it on your own? Enjoy lugging stuff...

Wild Mage successfully funds on Kickstarter and confirms multiplayer

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Congratulations are in order for Luna Orion, which just saw its Wild Mage successfully fund earlier this week! The open-world fantasy game, which the...

Saga of Lucimia expands its dev team and readies a June test

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Chatter around the in-development Saga of Lucimia seems to have died down since this past spring, although it has not disappeared entirely. The dev...

Bless Online goes on an all-out offensive with its upcoming 140-player battle

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Pushing back against poor reviews and mass refunds, Bless Online has grand plans to turn public perception of the game around with big ol'...

City of Heroes emulator SEGS announces new update with NPCs, database support, and a GUI

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If you've been following SEGS' twitter over the last week, you know the team there has been teasing something big. And now we know...

The Survivalist: Eight ways to give Just Survive a fighting chance

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Do you remember at the beginning of May when Just Survive was talking about "working on a plan to go forward"? I understand if...

Occupy White Walls’ artificial intelligence just got a smarty-pants upgrade

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One of the core features of Occupy White Walls that you have to wrap your head around is the game's ARTificial intelligence, D.A.I.S.Y. The...

The Stream Team: A first romp in Paladins’ Realm Royale

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Remember Paladins: Battlegrounds? Massively OP's MJ played it when it was debuted at Hi-Rez Expo 2018. Now, it is rebranded and in early access...

Wild Terra spinoff Corrupted hits Steam early access wearing Wild Terra’s favorite shirt

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Heading into Steam early access today is new isometric game called Corrupted, and if it looks familiar, that's because it's from Juvty Worlds, which...

Star Control Origins includes multiplayer fleet battles

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Hands up if you've played Star Control 2 back in the day (and shame on you if you haven't!). This '90s-era space RPG sent...

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