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]

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Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar in summation

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All the time through playing Shroud of the Avatar, I found myself wanting to like the game a lot more than I did. And...
This is not a frog, for the record.

Project Gorgon is ‘gearing up’ for a Steam launch, adds item context menus

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When the history books go to record the development of Project Gorgon, they're going to have to use terms like "ages" and "epochs" to...

Citadel Forged With Fire’s mini-patch today adds crafted swords and a new big bad

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Citadel Forged With Fire has a new patch live today, if you can manage to tear yourself away from building marble palaces for fortune...

Crowfall adds armor racks and a dangerous beachhead

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September looks to be busy for the Crowfall team, as it continues to expand the campaign world and its related testing process. This week,...
Planted.

Seed explains its AI-driven design and its 2018 test plans

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The bad news for fans eagerly looking on with Seed's development is that the game isn't going to be opening up for external testing...

Pantheon’s newsletter covers custom lighting, the perception system, and the state of the game

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's latest newsletter heralds a state-of-the-game missive spread out over four pages of content. Visionary Realms notes that its Series...

Funcom promises better communication for Conan Exiles

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Get ready for a flood of information from Conan Exiles. Funcom admitted that it had been dropping the ball on talking with fans about...

Maguss is a mash-up of Pokémon Go and Harry Potter

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It might be the closest you will ever get to living out your Harry Potter fantasies without heading down to Universal Studios in Orlando....

The Stream Team: Giving away Dauntless beta codes

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There are plenty of reasons to play a game, everything from events to raids to roleplay to capturing the perfect screenshot. Really, there are...

Fortnite begins testing its battle royal game mode, launching September 26

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Epic Games heard you liked battle royal game modes, so it's putting one into Fortnite. The so-called Fortnite Battle Royale is "an all-new PvP mode...

Crowfall reveals the secrets of its crowdfunding success

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With $2.7 million raised from fans and $12.5 million total in its pockets from multiple sources, ArtCraft has a wealth of money on which...
Hot.

Dauntless patch 0.2.1 is all about improving stability and chat

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Some patches don't add much content, but they still make a game better. Dauntless patch 0.2.1 isn't going to add much in the way...

PAX West 2017: Hand of the Gods’ Japanese pantheon and the possibility of 2v2

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While the full Hi-Rez portfolio wasn't in attendance at PAX West, Hand of the Gods was on-hand with a fan tournament as well as...

Worlds Adrift dev Bossa Studios picks up $10M in investor funding

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Worlds Adrift developer Bossa Studios just got a massive influx of cash - 10 million bucks - thanks to a Series A investment round...

Valiance Online puts out a call for hurricane heroes for charity event

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When real-life tragedy occurs, it's perfectly OK to give priority to assistance over interest in video games. But what if you could do both? Valiance...

Gloria Victis’ tanks get an armor upgrade

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Wait long enough, and a class or build that you enjoy will most likely enjoy a renaissance as the developers give it some major...
Oh, wow, maps. What an amazingly new concept.

Shroud of the Avatar’s R46, free trial, community map, and $52K telethon haul

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Shroud of the Avatar is full-speed ahead, looking on to R46 with R45 in the rear-view mirror. What's in R46? Lots of stuff, starting...
This is different.

Lost Ark releases a trailer for its second closed beta

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We're going to lead off with the bad news: Lost Ark is currently planning its release in South Korea and China in 2018 with...
SHOOOT

PAX West 2017: A closer look at H1Z1 King of the Kill’s combat practice

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If you've been away from H1Z1 for a long time, you need to known that Daybreak's been making it easier to get back into...

Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts is ‘fed up’ with giving 3.0 release estimates

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Eurogamer's Chris Roberts interview covers why the alpha 3.0 is more like early access than beta, how making games has changed in the era of crowdfunding, and why he's tired of giving out 3.0 launch estimates - even when he's being called a liar by detractors.

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