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]

Dune Awakening will let players listen to an in-game radio with music from classic Dune PC games

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If you're looking to enjoy an aural trip down memory lane while playing Dune: Awakening, then Funcom has you covered thanks to an in-game...

Bossa’s multiplayer sandbox Lost Skies rolls into early access April 18

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We probably should've seen this coming after Lost Skies launched its island creator demo, but now it's official: Worlds Adrift studio Bossa Games is...

Brighter Shores kicks off a month-long Easter egg hunt for exclusive rewards

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Now that the first portion of a combat rework has arrived to Brighter Shores, players can get to the really important business within the...

Quinfall’s latest patch improves chances of getting better gear, adds AI-assisted chat translations

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Who would like a Google Translate-style AI bot to try to make sense of what people using other languages are saying in Quinfall? Well...
How near, how far.

Whatever happened to superhero MMO Valiance Online? (2025 edition)

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It's been a couple of years since we heard much out of Valiance Online, one of the original superhero MMORPGs that spawned in the...

Odin Valhalla Rising global opens registration and name reservations ahead of April 29 launch

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As promised, Kakao Games has officially opened registration for its mobile/PC MMORPG, Odin: Valhalla Rising, as of today, ahead of its April 29th launch....

Star Citizen’s March report marks progress on new ships, AI tools, and overheating for ships and weapons

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With alpha 4.1's release as the milestone marker for March in Star Citizen, the progress report for that same month out of CIG is...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen officially opens up its two new FFA PvP servers in latest patch

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has been talking about its self-described "raw" PvP server plans for a little while now, but the time for...
Good, well-thought-out plans.

Last Oasis marks rising player counts and new gameplay additions during its Season 6 testing

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Readers may remember that the all-but-abandoned survival sandbox MMO Last Oasis was roused back from its slumber by developer Donkey Crew at the latter...
wheeeeeee

Steel Hunters is live now in early access with a ‘Mostly Negative’ review score on Steam

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Here's the good news for people interested in Steel Hunters in early access: The game is free-to-play, even now, so if you just want...

Astroneer studio announces Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, coming in 2026

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Astroneer fans, a whole new galaxy is about to open up to you, as System Era Softworks has officially announced the next game in...

Fractured Online’s new studio is now ‘eight people strong’ as devs talk background update efforts

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Yes, having eight developers working on the slowly rebuilding Fractured Online is not a lot, but considering this game had three unpaid workers at...

Star Citizen’s $10M pledge haul in March caps off a first quarter YoY funding increase for 2025

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Yet again, the unfinished alpha spaceship sandbox Star Citizen continues to break crowdfunding records despite its long years in early development: CIG's sci-fi magnum...

Choose My Adventure: A sense of confusion and curiosity mark the return to Nightingale

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It's pretty frequently noted by this point that when I return to a game, I tend to do so with a little bit of...

Bamco’s Elden Ring Nightreign multiplayer survival game is launching May 30

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At the top of the year, we got a first look at Elden Ring Nightreign, a multiplayer co-op "survival adventure" spin-off of the Elden...

Multiplayer survivalbox Echoes of Elysium launches its airship creation tool for free on Steam

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As promised, Echoes of Elysium - the Snail Games-pubbed multiplayer survival box from Loric Games - officially launched its airship builder tool last night...

Dune Awakening discusses head start, guild size, soloing, and the consequences of death

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Did you not have two hours to yourself to sit and watch Dune: Awakening's recent livestream? Don't worry because Funcom has elected to cut...
Put those bedroom eyes away.

Palworld’s April Fools dating sim is… real?

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Remember last year when Palworld teased everyone with the prospect of a dating sim based on Palworld? It was a great gag. A+ joke. Also...

Clash of Adventurers is a free-to-play sandbox MMORPG in pre-alpha development with all the trimmings

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There's something to be said about splashy introductions being tossed aside for succinct and forthright descriptions, and that most certainly is the first impression...

Soulframe talks about pre-alpha updates while being distracted by live animals

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What do chinchillas, bunnies, chickens, and Soulframe have to do with each other? They were all brought together for the game's latest dev stream...