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]

Crowfall traces the career of Gordon Walton

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When you follow the development of MMOs, do you ever find yourself wondering who these people are making the games and what is their...
Holiday road.

Dual Universe team offers fans a development update before vacation

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If you were hoping for more Dual Universe news through the end of the year, the bad news is that it's not happening. The...

Project Gorgon ends Indiegogo campaign slightly shy of its $20K goal

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After a solid run, Project Gorgon has closed out its Indiegogo campaign just shy of its $20,000 goal. The fantasy MMO designed by Asheron's Call...
To be fair, I suppose you can't make a game with that title and then have lots of water, but.

Pick up a key for Cloud Pirates’ third closed beta and jump in right now

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Dirigibles! Explosions! Christmas! One of these things just doesn't fit in here! Yep, it's time for another round of Cloud Pirates closed beta right through the...

Four-year-old War Thunder launches out of open beta

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I know what you're thinking -- didn't War Thunder launch, like, four years ago? I know we just sang happy birthday back in October. Welcome...

Multiplayer sci-fi sandbox Hellion demos survival gameplay ahead of January early access

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Back in November, we reported on the rollout of Hellion, a PvP-centric multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox aiming for a Jaunary early access launch. Today,...

Valiance Online clarifies alpha and Steam launch plans

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Back in October, Valiance Online announced that it was superjumping onward from pre-alpha to alpha and revealed that it'll use a free-to-play model, or...

Conan Exiles shows off its crafting and thrall systems

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What are MMO NPCs good for, really? Usually they're either part of the quest system, trainers or vendors, or targets for our sharp, pointy...
It's really the least of their problems.

Star Citizen is reportedly unaffected by the Crytek shutdowns

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Here's the bad news: Crytek, the company behind the CryEngine, has been forced to shutter five separate studios as part of a major restructuring....

Valiance Online introduces a trio of heroes and villains

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Even though superhero MMOs offer us the ability to create our own characters and live vicariously through their adventures, it's good to hear about...

The Stream Team: Come play Revelation Online’s closed beta with us

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Revelation Online starts up its second closed beta today, and Massively OP's MJ is ready to dive back in. But she doesn't want to...

Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas arena design dev diary

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Last week, we covered new info about El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from Czech studio that actually cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
IT BURNS IT ALL BURNS EVERYTHING IS BURNING

Revelation Online’s second closed beta has begun

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The holiday season approaches, dear readers. Some of you are already off of work or school. There is no release, no salvation, no way...
The few, the proud, the self-righteous.

Star Citizen’s FPS module launches with update 2.6

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If you had long suspected after delays and setbacks that Star Citizen's Star Marine FPS module would launch when pigs fly, you might want...
Swings and roundabouts!

Albion Online discusses reworking the shape of the world

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It's a known fact now that Albion Online will remain in beta into 2017, but perhaps you're not entirely clear on why that's the...

RUST dev after three years of early access: ‘If you’re bored of the game then just stop playing it’

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While RUST has amused us plenty this year, thanks to the character gender via Steam ID thing and the hobo simulator (and don't forget penis...

Smed says Hero’s Song is ‘working through some things’

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We've had several tips this week from players concerned about Hero's Song. One, for example, suggested that several employees had left Pixelmage Games and...
I LIKE MY CURRENT COLOR THANK YOU

Dark and Light’s early access has been delayed into 2017

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Since it's already December 19th, you probably already figured that the Dark and Light resurrection wasn't going to make that original "late 2016" target...

Shroud of the Avatar’s world grows ever larger

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With December's Release 37 out of the door, you might expect Shroud of the Avatar's team to downshift for the remainder of the month....
No, really, what is going on here.

Ship of Heroes shows off screenshots of Apotheosis City

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Remember when you had a fever dream recently that there was another spiritual successor to City of Heroes in the works, only this one...

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