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]

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Under A Rock, Farworld Pioneers, Cyborg Immortal

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you've probably never heard of (but if you have, awesome!). Under a Rock If you're not living under a...

Kickstarted solarpunk ‘mediumly multiplayer’ Loftia picks up investor seed funds and support

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Loftia was easily one of the biggest MMOs to fund on Kickstarter last year: The self-described "mediumly multiplayer" sandbox pulled in $1.27M US for...

The Stream Team: Joining in on the Nightingale stress test

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MOP's Chris is going to add his weight to the one-day stress test of Nightingale today, and at the same time he's going to...

Skull & Bones’ free open beta begins February 7 – here’s the new trailer and season preview

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Ubisoft is hyping up the free open beta for Skull and Bones, and we have to note right up front that while the devs...

First Impressions: Palworld copied all the right homework to graduate as its own enjoyable game

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You know how the back of a box of Hamburger Helper or other boxed dinner mixes encourage you to toss in extra ingredients to...

Star Citizen discusses alpha 3.23 EVA updates, lines up multiple events and a new free trial for February

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Star Citizen is a game that's mostly about internet spaceships, but sometimes players need to engage in some extra-vehicular activity, or EVA for short....

Former devs of The Day Before recount a workplace of employee fines, shifting whims, and ‘pure megalomaniacal chaos’

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However badly managed The Day Before may have looked upon its disastrous early access release, the reality was reportedly much worse than anyone could...
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V Rising will make its full 1.0 release to PlayStation 5 and bring controller support to Steam

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The vampiric player characters of V Rising - and by extension developer Stunlock Studios - are setting forth for brand-new lands, as the studio...

Palworld counts 19M players across Steam and Xbox, becomes the largest third-party release for Game Pass

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The juggernaut that is the early access survivalbox Palworld doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon, as developer Pocketpair has once again...

Ashes of Creation showcases how PvP will work for caravan runs in latest preview video

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Last November, Ashes of Creation highlighted the act of moving goods from one place to another in a caravan, which was certainly an illustrative...

Reign of Guilds recounts its December playtest and shares patch notes for its next no-wipe test

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This past December saw the PvP sandbox Reign of Guilds hold its sixth playtest. That naturally means that developer Atlant Games has gotten some...

Wayfinder studio Airship Syndicate is laying off a dozen staff as execs reduce their own pay

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If you've seen the rumors on Twitter this afternoon that Wayfinder's team is suffering layoffs, well, I'm sorry to report that they're true, and...

These are the accessibility features Nightingale will – and will not – offer in its early access and stress test build

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"One of our goals with Nightingale is to bring people together and create memorable experiences for players of all backgrounds," opens Inflexion's latest dev...

Survival MMO Age of Water previews hostile NPC factions and boat construction

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On Monday, we dropped a big interview with Gaijin-funded Three Whales Studio, which is aiming to launch its Waterworldish post-apoc oceanfaring survival MMO Age...

The Stream Team: Previewing City of Heroes Homecoming’s new Arsenal powersets

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MOP's Chris is back on Brainstorm! That's right, today he'll be heading to the test server of City of Heroes: Homecoming to check out...

Palia’s lunar new year event is live alongside the return of Maji Market festivities

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As promised, Palia's Maji Market returned last night, this time to celebrate lunar new year - or Luna New Year, as the cozy mini-MMO...

Valheim’s Discord server is finally back up after a nasty hack of its dev team

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On Monday, we covered an emerging fiasco happening over in the Valheim community: The game's Discord and multiple developer Discord accounts had been hacked,...

The Quinfall discusses its business model, gameplay, and beta testing plans in Q&A video

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Vawraek Technology has posted a new video for its upcoming MMORPG The Quinfall featuring some player Q&A about the title, and the answers provided...

Enshrouded celebrates over one million players, vows to continue to ‘kick some bug ass’

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While it's certainly nowhere near as viral as another survival game in early access, Keen Games' own multiplayer survivalbox Enshrouded hasn't been a slouch...

Throne & Liberty KR will bolster endgame with coop dungeons, dungeon finder, and less ‘forced content’

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NCsoft's Jong-ok Ahn is back on the official Throne & Liberty site with another producer's update this week, this time talking about the Resistance...