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]

Thank goodness we finally launched.

Actress Michelle Rodriguez demos Skull and Bones’ intro and events in latest video

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Earlier Skull and Bones offered up a look at what general gameplay and endgame looks like in its last video preview, but now we're...

Animal Crossing-inspired cozy MMO Galactic Getaway launches $50,000 Kickstarter

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Twice last spring, we covered a new-to-us MMO called Galactic Getaway, a game that had been in production already since 2021. We originally binned...

Monsters & Memories recaps player testing – and teases in-game housing

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Niche Worlds Cult is back this week with an update on everything the indie studio accomplished in January on its throwback MMO Monsters &...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen shifts to a six-week seasonal dev cadence with boosted backer accessibility

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Kickstarted MMORPG Pantheon has a big announcement this afternoon: It's swapping over to a seasonal dev schedule. Visionary Realms presents the plan as a...

Nightingale, counting nearly 50K testers, is launching early access two days earlier than originally planned

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Hope you didn't take the original launch date off because Nightingale's early access release has been pushed up two days. "Inflexion Games announced the launch...

Throne & Liberty KR holds its first PvP siege and explains the activity’s mechanics

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If you like laying siege to to a big castle with fantasy classes and big stomping rock golems, then you'll probably like what Throne...
Sure, all right.

Wayfinder previews interface quality-of-life and damage reduction balancing

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Pay no attention to the rogue sdsds at the top of Wayfinder's patch notes: This is a real patch and not just the ramblings...

Myth of Empires’ epic new trailer teases biomes, building construction, and warfare

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Having put its legal quibbles with Studio Wildcard and Smilegate behind it, strategy-sandbox MMO Myth of Empires is heading to its launch this month...
Now you can play with your straight friends!

Microsoft will require Final Fantasy XIV players to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass in order to play the game

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It's tucked away in the announcement that Final Fantasy XIV's beta on the Xbox Series X|S starts on February 21st, but the announcement does...

Trimurti Online joins Steam Next Fest with a demo build today, plans open beta February 13

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The Steam Next Fest is kicking off today, February 5th, and it looks as if many developing MMOs and multiplayer games are eager to...

Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium teases upcoming alpha 3.23’s possible features

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The return of Star Citizen's weekly video digests already highlighted a couple of features for alpha 3.23, but there's now the usual weekly Star...

Palworld vows to keep servers online ‘without regard to cost’ (despite monthly cost of nearly half a million dollars)

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Getting professional server hosting for an online multiplayer title ain't cheap, and that holds true for Palworld developer Pocketpair, which is paying out the...
There are problems with this art, but we're going to overlook that.

Final Fantasy XIV’s open beta for Xbox X|S starts February 21 – here’s how to get in

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This time it's for real instead of a mistakenly early announcement: The Xbox X|S open beta test for Final Fantasy XIV has locked down...

Indie MMO sandbox Fractured Online unveils its Endgame Changer patch coming February 21

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Kickstarted sandbox Fractured has been teasing a big endgame overhaul for a few weeks now, setting the date for February 21st, and now the...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Sneak Out, ManaSoul, Rise of Mythos aka Kings Call

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you've probably never heard of (but we'll be impressed if you have). Sneak Out Sneak Out is for some...

Make My MMO: Zenith’s spinoff game, EVE Online’s board game Kickstarter

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Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! It's been pretty hoppin' for Kickstarted MMOs lately, as Elite Dangerous is...

Open Perpetuum is bringing land mines, new weapons, and T4 balancing sometime in ‘Marchish’

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Markish your calendarsh because the Perpetuum emulator Open Perpetuum is going to be releasing Patch 31 sometime in "Marchish." When is Marchish? We're notsh...

Voxlands is a multiplayer boxy blend of FPS, RPG, and survival coming to February’s Steam Next Fest

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It's time once again to take up several sub-genres, toss them in a pot, and whisk until they smooth into a new title. This...
Trumpets!

Betawatch: Nightingale’s Friday stress test is still underway

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It's time for Nightingale to enter the beautiful, sometimes dangerous world of stress testing as it kicked off a stress test this afternoon, which...

‘Supermax open world survival’ title SCUM removes garage locks, releases vehicle skins, and seeks player opinons

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One of the things we always ask for in our Betawatch column is for readers to let us know if a game in testing...