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]

SiegeCamp’s Anvil Empires talks up flying critters and hanging trees

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SiegeCamp's upcoming MMORPG sandbox Anvil Empires continues to fly under the genre's radar - and we aren't using the word fly lightly, as the...
Nope, just me.

V Rising previews new armor, crafting tier, and PvP shard ahead of Q2 formal launch

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Vampire survivalbox V Rising's latest dev dispatch does not include a launch date, so don't get your hopes up for that. We're still apparently...

Extraction shooter Hawked has officially launched on PC and consoles

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Billing itself as "the ultimate treasure hunt," extraction shooter Hawked officially released this week to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. On Steam, reviews are already...

Star Citizen talks up the wide assortment of missions possible at alpha 3.23’s distribution centers

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Usually the words "distribution center" conjure forth some logistical nexus full of a company's product plopped in the middle of a field for trucking...

Nightingale’s latest trailer teases crafting, combat, and stunning player housing

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With its early access release only five days away, gaslamp-fantasy survivalbox - sorry, "open-world survival crafting game" - Nightingale is dropping yet another trailer to...

Ghost MMO devs discuss ideas for the game’s crafted and randomly generated zone design

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The Ghost MMO being developed by Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street's indie firm Fantastic Pixel Castle, or as I like to call it Big Greggy's Fantastical...

Tombstone is a 2-D pixel art MMO set in a western futuristic post-apocalypse set to release this year

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Last December one of the MMOs You've (Probably) Never Heard Of that we covered was Tombstone MMO, a pixel art 2-D MMO where players...

Haven is a co-op focused MMORPG being built by Blizzard, EA, and Turbine veterans

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Merriam-Webster defines the word "haven" as "a place of safety offering favorable opportunities or conditions," but one might argue that most MMORPGs aren't...
Hmm.

Wayfinder’s latest patch improves its performance and UI

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If you felt like Wayfinder was too punishing on your gaming machine, you may want to return for this week's patch to see if...

Dune Awakening’s February playtest will apparently be the largest Funcom has ever run

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"Many of you have been asking about betas for Dune Awakening," Funcom's latest video about the survival MMO says. So surely that means it's...

Nightingale preps for early access launch with a FAQ and dev video

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Will Victorian survivalbox Nightingale have it all together when it leaps into early access on February 20th? We're only a few days away from...

New World begins PTR testing of Season of the Guardian and its cooking overhaul today

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It's PTR day over in Amazon's New World, as Season of the Guardian - or some of it, anyway - reaches players' test clients...

Star Citizen’s live game director vacates position after nine years at CIG

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We'll admit that this bit of Star Citizen news is ripe for speculation, and that speculation may be steered by how one feels about...

Palworld’s popularity inspires new merchandise in the form of terrifying adult Halloween costumes

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There are plenty of ways for fans of a game to feel closer to their favorite titles, but one of those ways is by...

The Stream Team: Capturing critters and exploring the islands in multiplayer Palworld

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MOP's Chris and his Porg Squadron crew are deep in to Palworld recently, and together they're going to share some of their exploration with...

Fractured previews Endgame Changer’s primal energy, enchanting, and potion systems

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Earlier this month, Dynamight Studios announced a big update for early access MMORPG sandbox Fractured Online. The so-called Endgame Changer patch is expected to...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen answers player questions about its new seasonal update cadence

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With Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen shifting its development method yet again to a six week-long seasonal cadence, players have once more come to...

Throne and Liberty reasserts a 2024 global launch as NCsoft releases a siege video

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Here's a fun fact: Throne and Liberty is now over two months old on Korean servers. We'll absorb that information as we continue to...

Progress Bar: Inside the latest 24-hour pre-alpha test of Pantheon Rise of the Fallen

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This past Saturday was when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen elected to open up its floodgates and let a whole bunch of people into...

Palworld continues its critter preview videos with a look at the legendary Frostallion

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Depending on how far along you've gotten in Palworld (assuming you're one of the millions playing the survivalbox), you might have already gotten to...