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]

Anvil Empires introduces new settlement structures, including windmills, in latest pre-alpha

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Siege Camp's upcoming sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires continues flying unobtrusively under the radar as it soars through development, and its latest developer blog is...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen confirms January 27 pre-alpha test will include alpha pledges once again

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The January producer's letter for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is now online and it has good news for pre-alpha and alpha backers: The...

Funcom teases Dune Awakening’s player-constructed bases in latest video

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Base builders, the latest mini video about survival MMO Dune Awakening from Funcom is for you, as it's all about construction in the still-undated...

Palia’s Luna New Year event arrives January 30 ahead of the lunar new year itself

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You probably already knew this was coming as it was teased in Singularity 6's roadmap, but today, Palia has announced that its Luna New...

Valheim, three years in early access, plods along on development of its Ashlands biome

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It's apparently survival sandbox week here at the end of January, as Valheim has resurfaced with a fresh dev blog. The game, which next...

The Stream Team: Taking a first peek into the early access of Palworld

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You've been reading about its headlines for the past few days here at MOP, but now it's time for Chris to actually play it:...

Wayfinder previews the optimization and performance upgrades coming in its February patch

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Wayfinder is shining another light on its upcoming patch: In its Discord last night, Airship Syndicate told players that the next patch will include...

Myth of Empires cranks out a playtest for its upcoming February launch

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With its legal troubles hopefully behind it, medieval sandbox MMO Myth of Empires is cruising to a full launch next month. But before that...

Co-op survivalbox Enshrouded just launched into Steam early access

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When I logged into my guild's Discord this morning, I realized half my crew was excitedly chattering about Enshrouded, multiplayer survival sandbox that we...

Kritika Zero is yanked from Steam hours before its launch in favor of Valofe’s platform

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In the annals of unpleasant last-minute surprises for MMO launches, this one may take the cake. Yesterday we reported that the originally NFT-infested Kritika...

Palworld sells 7M, nears 2M concurrent, and drops an undated roadmap for fixes and content

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Palworld, a survivalbox everyone was sleeping on and got basically zero traction over the last two and a half years we've been covering it,...

Tarisland shows female Paladin concept while saying that gender unlocking is going to take time

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You know that when there's good news and bad news, it's best to take that nasty medicine first, right? Well when it comes to...

Nightingale is less than a month away – here’s a six-minute preview of its features

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This is your formal heads-up that one of the most anticipated online games of 2024 is less than a month away. After years of...

Legal experts weigh in on Palworld plagiarism accusations as player and sales numbers continue to climb

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Pocketpair's creature-featured survivalbox Palworld continues to make waves across the wider gaming sphere, both in terms of wanted and unwanted attention. The game has...

Throne & Liberty KR discusses stat integration, siege wars, and (vaguely) the global launch

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As western players continue to wait impatiently for even the tiniest scrap of news about the global release of Throne & Liberty, NCsoft has...

Fractured Veil’s early access launch is delayed once again as the build’s first patch notes go live

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Paddle Creek Games just can't seem to catch a break when it comes to the early access release of its survival sandbox Fractured Veil:...

Star Citizen player-run Daymar Rally sees hundreds of players and teams compete over the weekend

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It's not a huge stretch to claim that much of Star Citizen's current in-game racing content would be possible without the effort of the...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen talks stats, art style, character death, and 2024 plans in new Q&A

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This week saw yet another Q&A video from the devs of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, and once again the questions that were asked...

Embers Adrift and Monsters & Memories devs come together to talk indie MMORPG devlopment

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This week saw the developers of two classically styled MMORPGs come together to talk shop, as Monsters & Memories creative director and producer Shawn...

Palworld touts huge sales and players concurrency as AI plagiarism accusations mount

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This weekend was a big one for Craftopia developer Pocket Pair and its survival sandbox Palworld, which made its early access debut to resounding...