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]

Pantropy reboots its Kickstarter campaign a month after its last one

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Give Pantropy credit for pluck: Less than a month after developer Brain Stone canceled the sci-fi shooter's Kickstarter halfway through its campaign, the game...

Project Genom prepares major alpha patch for release

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Project Genom is on the cusp of bringing an extensively tested build over to its live alpha servers. As the team makes final preparations...

Ship of Heroes posts a timeline for the first half of 2018

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With a combat alpha under its belt, the superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes turns its attention to the challenges that lay ahead. The team...
Houses aren't that great, don't hoboshame me.

Dark and Light buffs ranged attacks to counter accidental nerf

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The eternal struggle between online game developers and combat balance continues, with the focus this week going over to Dark and Light. Turns out...
Our house in the middle of our street.

Crowfall details the mechanics of building within its eternal kingdoms

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If you're going to share a plot of land with other people in Crowfall, you need to understand what that sharing will entail. If...
No.

The Daily Grind: How long is too long for early access?

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Let's be real here, there's no question in anyone's mind that DayZ has been in early access far longer than it should be. By...
Tiptoe through the something-or-other.

Crowfall streams another set of patch notes from the future

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Skill trees are pretty darn important to Crowfall, so it's also pretty darn important when the development team announces that said trees are getting...

EVE Online’s mobile spin-off is called EVE: War of Ascension

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While the existence of a mobile game set in the EVE Online universe isn't a secret at this point -- having been revealed all...

Pantheon deep-dives the Black Rose Keep dungeon we toured at PAX

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There's a lot to unpack in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's April newsletter. Not only does it cover the Ratkin species from the bestiary...
Less than radical, really.

Radical Heights has only barely topped LawBreakers’ all-time player count

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It's important to note that Radical Heights has only just been sent out into the wild, and its surprise launch was less "highly anticipated"...

Dual Universe gives players all of the tools to build their own galaxy

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Contrary to what you may have believed, Dual Universe isn't going to limit its sandbox features to the creation and flight of personal spacecraft....
Daunting!

Dauntless charges into open beta on May 24

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Dauntless is a game in which fleshy mortals willingly attack beasts twenty times their size, so this is not a title that deals in...
Rinse and repeat.

Citadel: Forged With Fire is adding daily quests with its next patch

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Look, readers, we're a little pressed for time, so perhaps you can do us a favor and just add "like daily quests" mentally at...
derpy die

PAX East 2018: Hands-on with Pantheon Rise of the Fallen

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Those who have read a fair amount of my work will know that nostalgia is something I tend to rail against pretty hard. I'm...
Paint with all the colors of the etc.

PAX East 2018: Catching up on Legends of Aria’s improvements since the last PAX

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When I saw Legends of Aria last year, right after it had dropped the Shards Online name and expanded to be a full-fledged MMORPG,...
Whoops.

Worlds Adrift heads into early access next month

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Ready to take to the skies? All aboard Worlds Adrift's custom-made airships, then, because Bossa Studios is bringing its "community-crafted" MMORPG to Steam early...

World Adrift posts its public roadmap, improves climbing so it doesn’t kill you

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The veil of secrecy has been lifted from Worlds Adrift, and now every Tom, Dick, and Jane will be able to know what the...

Bless Online shakes up and builds out its combat system

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With its early access debut coming next month, Bless Online has a lot riding on how well it can present itself to a western...
Oh look.

Having given up on LawBreakers, Boss Key is launching battle royale game Radical Heights tomorrow

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Last week, we wrote about the de facto maintenance-moding of LawBreakers, as Boss Key admitted the game wasn't making money, not even enough to...

PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever

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At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...

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