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]

Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas server goes into early access

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Every voyage has a beginning, and for Puzzle Pirates' newest server, the maiden voyage began this past week. It's called Dark Seas, and it's a...

Dark and Light vows to squash early access bugs

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Early access or no, players expect their games to work right when they're shelling out money for them. The developers of the reworked Dark...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen would make for a terrible scam (September 16, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts gave an interview that seemed to express understandable frustration with the constant barrage of demands...

The Stream Team: A first alpha look at Wild West Online

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There are so few western MMOs, but Wild West Online is fixin' to change that. And by golly, thanks to Alpha Test 1, Massively...

Camelot Unchained ‘sprints’ toward beta one sieges, teases group and guild infodump

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This week's Camelot Unchained is good news, assuming you want to play the game, and you probably do, else you'd not be reading this. "We...

Dauntless delays open beta to early 2018, shares development roadmap

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Let's cut to the chase: There's a new roadmap out for Dauntless' future development, and that roadmap includes an announcement concerning the transition from...

PSA: Get some bonus goodies when you preregister for Lineage 2: Revolution

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Tested and proven over in South Korea, Netmarble's Lineage 2: Revolution is about to sweep over the globe and enslave your children and your...
Supplies.

Betawatch: Crowfall shares lots of fun stuff (September 15, 2017)

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Good news for Crowfall fans this week because there's plenty on the docket about the game's development. You might not consider a whole lot...

The Stream Team: Handing out Hand of the Gods goodies

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It's deja vu day! The last time Massively OP's MJ shared some Hand of the Gods gameplay, she gave away a handful of Founders...

Conan Exiles makes a bold appeal to builders: Just play in god-mode

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Lest you think that Conan Exiles is just about crushing your enemies and all that, Funcom has a new dev diary out today elucidating...

Shroud of the Avatar reveals a batch of investment rewards for the one percenters

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People, steel yourself for an entire article about gold-themed housing decorations that won't involve a single Trump joke. It's going to be hard, but...

Star Citizen’s alpha 3.0 inches closer to testers, CIG touts its mission system

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In this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, Cloud Imperium says it's reduced its must-fix issues by 50 over the last week,...

PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma

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What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then,...

Wild West Online’s first closed alpha has officially begun

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"Open-world action-based, online multiplayer" game - somewhere between a survival sandbox and an MMO - Wild West Online officially hits closed alpha today, or...

Dark and Light’s Goblin engineering will make you into a bully

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Have you seen Dark and Light's Goblins? They're hands-down the most adorable gobbos ever made for an online game. So much so, in fact,...
All right, that's... this is super, you guys are doing super, sure.

Korean mobile MMO Royal Blood kicks off its closed beta on September 25

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What is the new mobile MMO Royal Blood all about? We honestly can't tell you, unless the entire game is about fighting a bunch...

Star Citizen denies claims that a backer sought and received a $45000 refund

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If you're as "fed up" with waiting for Star Citizen as Chris Roberts is "fed up" with providing endless moving release dates for alpha...
Neigh. Is that the sound elk make? We honestly don't know.

Here are all of Crowfall’s launch class/race combos

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Now that Crowfall has split with the whole fixed-archetype thing, it's a world of possibilities over at this PvP title. And while there will...

Sea of Thieves talks up its quintessential pirateness in a new top 10 video

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Rare has a new Sea of Thieves video out this week that is a listicle... a listavid? I don't know. It's a video that...

Wild West Online’s alpha begins this weekend, keys begin rollout today

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Wild West Online is gearing up for its first alpha test this weekend, which means alpha invites will begin going out soon. How soon?...

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