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]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

PUBG makes Aussie players geocache for lootcrates this weekend

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Dammit Australia. As if buying lockboxes in video games isn't bad enough, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds means to make you chase them in real life. Apparently, Xbox...

Who does Star Citizen love now? HOVERBIKES!

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Is Star Citizen alpha 3.0 going to make it past the PTU testers to the live server by Christmas? It's looking pretty tight. According...

H1Z1 will be called King of Survival when Tencent ports it to China

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This week's rumor that Tencent may be porting Daybreak's H1Z1 eastward has proven true, as the Chinese megacorp and Daybreak announced late last night...

Sea of Thieves announces March launch date for PC and Xbox One

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Well this is a bit of welcome news before the year rounds out! Rare finally announced a launch date for Sea of Thieves: March...
Everyone shoots everyone else!

Fortnite is getting a new large-scale battle royale mode

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Over the past weekend, Fortnite managed to hit a peak of 1.3 million concurrent users and 30M total users. That's a lot of people....
This may be overreaching.

Saga of Lucimia doesn’t have minimum specs for its testing, but it also does

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There are no minimum specs listed for Saga of Lucimia's early access test starting on December 22nd. That's because no work has really yet...
Real-is-brown filter removed.

Escape from Tarkov preps massive New Year’s stress test ahead of 2018 open beta

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Did you think Christmas came too early this year? One of my hobbies was already rolling out Valentine's Day hoopla in August, so I...
Move it move it.

Here’s a quick peek into the two ‘MMOs’ Pearl Abyss is working on

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Back in September during Pearl Abyss' IPO press conference, the South Korean company reps let loose with a ton of information about the state...

The Crew 2 has been delayed deeper into 2018

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We've known Ubisoft was working on a sequel to driving MMO The Crew since this past spring, when the company confirmed what it would...

Crowfall’s crafting looks more and more like Star Wars Galaxies’

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Hey crafters. Let's talk Crowfall for a minute. ArtCraft Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair explains today in a new dev blog that crafting in...

Chronicles of Elyria to start taking name reservations next month

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Thinking about reserving a character name in Chronicles of Elyria? It's going to cost you, but if you're willing to pony up the dough,...
I sure hope it looks better in VR, anyhow.

OrbusVR shows off with a new trailer for early access

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The trouble with seeing VR images on a non-VR screen is, well, they don't really carry the same sort of impact. The new OrbusVR...

MU Online activates exclusive server while MU Legend hauls out the PvP

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Here's a two-for-one update on what's going on with the MU universe of games. First up is MU Online, which just activated a new...
oh GROSS

Tera M is not friendly to free players in its Korean version

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Eager to have all of the gameplay of TERA in the palm of your hand with TERA M? You might want to be a...

Crowfall studio ArtCraft just raised another $6M from investors to launch the game

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Lest you be dispirited by the fact that Crowfall's soft launch isn't going to make 2017 as promised (after also not making 2016), ArtCraft...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds teases its desert map, eyes post-launch cosmetics

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Still find yourself dizzy with disbelief about how the most awkwardly titled video game ever became 2017's biggest hit? Check out Polygon's rundown of...

Conan Exiles might have to cut some PC features for launch

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This week's Conan Exiles newsletter covers some of the changes coming to the PC version (a plant-harvesting sickle!) and hints that the team might...

Wild West Online seems to be dropping FFA PvP in favor of faction-based PvP

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Still bummed out about Wild West Online's delay to 2018? Wait until you see the game's latest dev blog! 612 Games doesn't mention the...

Crowfall: ‘You don’t have to get into the stats to have a good time in this game’

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Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Billy Garretsen are back for another ACE Q&A - you can pretty much mark the months by these things....

Eleven boots up a Glitch wiki to crowdsource info

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As Glitch fan remake Eleven reemerges on the scene with more alpha developments, the team has a plea that it is making to the...

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