Alphas & Betas

Last week, one of the developers of Star Citizen made what looked like a passing few references to "SC 1.0" that seemed to suggest...

Nightingale has spent the better part of the week focused on clean-up after a bug ate player homes last weekend, but now it's releasing...

The storied Vindictus franchise enters into a new era this week as its action RPG sequel, Vindictus: Defying Fate, started pre-alpha testing. Nexon announced that...

As we noted earlier this week, the Camelot Unchained spinoff game Final Stand Ragnarok is launching today into its most formal early access yet....

It's not every day that we get cold hard numbers from a games studio, but Singularity 6 is providing a very large one today:...

You already knew that Gearbox is reviving Motiga's sunsetted MOBA Gigantic, and you already knew that it's coming on April 9th. You knew these...

Everything old is new again, or at least old enough to be a throwback while being new enough to engage FPS gamers. That's probably...

It appears that we can't be rid of the ghosts of Paragon, Epic Games' swing at the MOBA craze that was shuttered in 2018...

Back in January, Hi-Rez formally announced SMITE 2, a proper sequel rather than an overhaul of the original, with alpha testing this spring and...

It's been at least five minutes since somebody announced a new extraction title, and this is one we knew about, so we'll make exceptions:...

Last week, after Scars of Honor's $200K Kickstarter ended unsuccessfully, the Bulgarian team, which had fallen silent through most of the campaign, quickly revived...

I can't blame you if you can't temper your skepticism for CCP's Project Awakening, both because CCP Games is notorious for failed EVE Online-universe...

We've been gently ribbing V Rising about its extended stay in early access for almost two years now, but in its defense, Stunlock Studios...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen studio Visionary Realms is clearly on an experimental path when it comes to getting development of the game paid...

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has finally shared its homework (albeit very late, which means it's going to face a financial wrist slapping),...

It would be pretty amusing if after all those mis-fires with new games, the next Jagex MMO actually comes from someone who left Jagex...

Abyss aka Abyss Online first caught our attention last summer, when gamers figured out that it was actually a clone of the supposedly satirical NFT...

We've been shaking our head ruefully at BitCraft's name for several years now, as it seemed clear to us that the name could be...

On this week's MOP Podcast, I mentioned that I bought Project Gorgon when it first hit early access on Steam, but I couldn't remember...

Well now, this is a weird press release I did not expect to get: Raph Koster's MMORPG "multiverse" company Playable Worlds has apparently signed...