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]

Pixel art MMO Necesse is adding a new adventure journal and better crafting stations in today’s update

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Back in August, we covered a new-to-us pixel art MMO called Necesse. The game, which allows servers of hundreds of people, had been in...

Post-sunset, The Wagadu Chronicles team says it considered and rejected open-sourcing the game

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One of the saddest sunsets of 2024 affected Kickstarted afrofantasy The Wagadu Chronicles. The MMORPG was Kickstarted by players for nearly $200K all the...

Soulframe deep-dives the changes to its next pre-alpha build and discusses multiplayer feature plans

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The pre-alpha "preludes" build of Soulframe is headed for its seventh iteration, and this update is a pretty beefy one as it changes several...

Loftia targets alpha testing by the end of this year and early access at the end of 2025

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Since last year we've been keeping eyes on the "mediumly multiplayer" cozy title Loftia, a life sim RPG that puts players into a colorful...

Active Matter is a PvPvE ‘mind-bending tactical hardcore shooter’ heading for closed beta by year’s end

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If there was any doubt about what the new bandwagon in multiplayer gaming is, let the arrival of another upcoming PvPvE extraction game dissolve...

Pax Dei debuts a new trailer and condenses the features of its November 5 Proving Grounds update

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Tuesday, November 5th, will be upon players of Pax Dei before they know it: That's when the big juicy Proving Grounds update will arrive...

Star Citizen pushes alpha 4.0’s engineering gameplay features back over game stability concerns

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Star Citizen has long promised players the chance to become an engineer aboard a starship along the "road to 4.0" that CIG has been...
Eh... I thought it would be funny.

SMITE 2 adds Ra and Sobek to the game’s roster as closed alpha marches on

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Readers who have gone down particular rabbit holes online over the past several years will probably look at the headline on this particular piece,...

Fntastic is hosting a map-making contest for its revised prop hunting game, and no, players won’t get paid

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Remember last month when developer Fntastic said it wouldn't use volunteer labor to build its upcoming prop hunting rehash game Items? The studio is...

Nightingale suffers second round of layoffs in two weeks as staff say the game’s early access will continue

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Last week, we covered some unfortunate news for co-op sandbox Nightingale when we learned that its studio, Tencent-backed Inflexion, had abruptly closed down its...
porecunk

Corepunk says it’s a month and a half behind schedule, but early access is on track for November 26

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If you've been following the Corepunk's development over the last few years, you surely know that the team is running behind where it expected...

Nexon’s MapleFest and Next On tease MapleStory’s Dark Ride, Mabinogi UE5, Nakwon Last Paradise, and more

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Nexon has been busy hyping its MMOs this week with both MapleStory Fest and its Next On event, so let's dig in! MapleStory Fest, which...
I reckon.

Bill Roper’s upcoming cowboys vs. Cthulhu game, Codename: Skinwalkers, has itself a trailer

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Well now, cowpokes, looks like you got one of them there trailers to check out if'n y'all fancy playin' a fast gun in the...

Star Citizen player reports CIG is making him sign an NDA before getting a refund

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We've chronicled the weird steps players have needed to take to get refunds from Star Citizen numerous times before, but now it looks like...

Hands-on with Lynked Banner of the Spark, an adorable roguelite with base building, crafting, and co-op

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I typically gravitate towards intense, heart-pounding, combat games that go in hard and never let up. But every once-in-a-while, a game comes across my...
Huntworthy.

Monster Hunter Wilds’ open beta has begun on PlayStation with PC and Xbox following this week

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It's just about time for players to get together and go hunt some monsters once again because Monster Hunter Wilds is starting an open...

Blockchain-infused EVE Frontier schedules next playtest for early November

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"EVE Online is good and all, but you know what it really needs? A heaping dose of blockchain for play-to-earn goodness!" said nobody but...
No.

Marathon boss captains a new video explaining the basic premise behind the Bungie remake

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If you remember that Bungie is working on a game called Marathon, you probably remember that it's an extraction shooter set in the same...

Path of Exile 2 delays early access to December 6 over account-linking database demons

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If you were thinking that Path of Exile 2 was moving very quickly toward its early access on November 15th, you weren't wrong: Just...
Fine. Sure.

Ethyrial Echoes of Yore’s updates continue with guilds, bank rework, new maps, rare drops, and relic system plans

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We're circling back once more to the sandbox MMORPG Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore to chronicle the continued series of development updates made by the...