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]

In Conan Exiles, ‘home is where you keep the hearts of your enemies’

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January's the month: Conan Exiles hits early access on the 31st as Funcom's latest Conan-franchise game, this one an unabashed survival sandbox with a...
And you can kill them.

Revelation Online details the basic of its PvP options

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In Revelation Online, Saturday night is all right for fighting, as is Sunday night through Friday night. There are lots of ways to fight...

Hi-Rez Expo 2017: SMITE Tactics begins beta testing, founders pack sale

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Hi-Rez is expected to have plenty of announcements in store for players during the opening ceremony of its 2017 expo this morning, including the news that SMITE Tactics, its...
Not Overwatch! Please don't sue!

Hi-Rez Expo 2017: Paladins announces upcoming Season 1 following the Paladins Invitational

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The first Paladins e-sports event will kick off today at 12:00 p.m. EST, with the first Paladins Invitational pitting players against one another in...

Origins of Malu proclaims ‘we are not dead,’ downgrades from an MMORPG

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Last April, we reported that the indie MMO Origins of Malu was suspending development as it sought investors to help fund the project. Since...
Leave it, homes. I'm chilling.

Crowfall reaches a funding stretch goal and aims for one last target

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Back in November, Crowfall studio ArtCraft joined Indiegogo's fledgling equity crowdfunding platform, which makes use of brand-new laws that allow non-accredited investors to invest in...

Survival sandbox New Dawn shows gameplay, gears up for Kickstarter

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It has been a while since we talked about New Dawn, so here's a quick refresher: This is an in-development survival sandbox that puts...
Pictured: bugs, we guess? Metaphor is hard.

Crowfall answers player questions on server size and QA work

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What ever happened to Crowfall's stretch goal for a QA lead? The answer is nothing happened to it; it's still a goal for the...

Revelation Online’s second beta winds down, English localization continues

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My.com has brought to an end the second round of Revelation Online's closed beta. "The stability of our servers was satisfactory, although we encountered some...

Ship of Heroes demos Apotheosis City in new video

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Just one month ago, we learned of the existence of yet another City of Heroes spinoff project: Ship of Heroes. And it's literally a...

Gamers resurrect LEGO Universe as Darkflame Universe with January alpha

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Forget 2017; today I'm going to ask you to think back to 2010, when the folks behind LEGO decided it would be a great...
Node contested.

Ashes of Creation outlines its reactive player-driven nodes

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So what is Ashes of Creation meant to be? Is it supposed to be more of a sandbox, more of a themepark, what? The...

Star Citizen talks about the process of creating lore

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"We wanted to take some time to day and talk about the process, how lore is actually made for a video game, since that's...

AdventureQuest 3D previews its new bank vault

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Inventory woes in AdventureQuest 3D might not be going away anytime soon, but they should be lessening come next week's patch thanks to the...
Bela Lugosi's dead.

Albion Online looks at the year in review and the year to come

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A lot has happened in the past year for Albion Online. Yes, the game is still in its test phase, but it's a test...
Yip.

Revelation Online shows off its foxes

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They're mysterious. They're ancient. They're elegant. They are also, presumably, hiding in the bushes to steal your chickens. They're the Foxes of Revelation Online,...

Nab a Heavy Gear Assault early access key from Stompy Bot and MOP

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Just before the new year descended on us all, Stompy Bot pushed out mecha shooter Heavy Gear Assault on Steam. "Currently HGA is in a stage where...
Let's get templarious. Assume that's a word.

Crowfall team says 2017 is ‘gonna be our year,’ shows off the Templar

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Crowfall isn't wasting any time in claiming dominance over 2017. ArtCraft's J. Todd Coleman said that, "2017 is going to be our year, I...

The Stream Team: Leaving 2016 behind in an underwater ARK cave

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What better way to leave 2016 behind than abandoned deep underwater in an ARK cave? That's what Massively OP's MJ is doing. But she...
lol

Betawatch: Hero’s Song abruptly stops the music (December 30, 2017)

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This kill-happy year of 2016 has claimed a lot of lives, and the last week has also killed another game. Hero's Song has been...

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