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]

Order and Chaos franchise returns with Guardians, a team-based RPG with ‘MMO-style advancement’

0
To channel the spirit of one Obi-Wan Kenobi, "Now that's a name I haven't heard for a long time. A long time." The name in...
Flags?

City of Heroes Homecoming opens testing of new Arsenal powersets, epic power pool revamp, TF diversity, and more

11
It's finally here, and by here we mean on the Brainstorm beta server: City of Heroes Homecoming's first big patch since April 2023 (and...
Fracking! Yes? No.

Betawatch: Fractured Online is rolling with its latest round of rollbacks

0
It's just hard out here for Fractured Online, sadly. We all know about the struggles that the game had when it was being published...

Pax Dei promises new items, prettier skies, and shinier player tombstones in next alpha build

2
When your character dies in an MMORPG and leaves nothing but a tombstone on the ground and sour feelings in your mind, it's usually...

Bethesda begins to roll out Elder Scrolls Castles, its latest Elder Scrolls mobile game

1
Elder Scrolls Online players looking to take their gaming addiction on the go have a good cause to rejoice this week, as Bethesda surprised...

EVE Online tweaks Havoc insurgencies, preps monthly EVE Vanguard tests for subbers

1
This week's EVE Online patch builds on the Havoc expansion CCP Games dropped before the turn of the new year, with both graphical and...
Red eyes take warning.

Ship of Heroes asks fans to sound off on what makes raiding fun

9
The last couple of weeks have probably felt a bit weird around the Ship of Heroes offices thanks to the legal revival of City...

Pokémon-like Palworld launches early access today, aims to be ‘the best game ever’

14
Trust us: You haven't begun to catch 'em all. But the good news is that you can take a crack at a new Pokémon-like...

Wakfu and Waven release 2024 roadmaps, including a new expansion for Wakfu

0
Ankama has dropped dueling roadmaps for its turn-based MMORPG Wakfu and card-based MMO Waven this week. Let's start with Waven, which actually just launched what...
Looks fine, no notes.

Nightingale shares the first 20 minutes of gameplay in a video

4
The visuals of Nightingale haven't exactly been a secret, what with all of the picture and video previews that Inflexion Games has been kicking...

Ashes of Creation officially makes good on its plan to stop selling Alpha Two backer packs

6
August of last year saw Ashes of Creation's Intrepid Studios announce its plans that it would stop selling pre-order packs of the gankbox MMORPG...

Palia will reduce its beta release cadence – but not its content quantity – in 2024

10
Singularity 6 is apparently back from holidays and ready with some downer news for Palia. The studio's dev update essentially begins by admitting to...
Now you can play with your straight friends!

Final Fantasy XIV jumps the gun on Xbox open beta announcement

5
One of the biggest developments for Final Fantasy XIV in 2024 that isn't named "Dawntrail" has to be the MMO's debut on Microsoft's game...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Flatty, Starbreak, Discovery Freelancer

3
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This time around, we're pretty much going...

Funcom’s Dune Awakening outlines desert survival tips for your impending trip to Arrakis

5
Funcom is back with another exceptionally brief teaser video for its survival MMORPG Dune Awakening today. No, there's no launch window here; it's really...
We have Anduin at home.

Tarisland outlines balance plans based on closed beta feedback – including raid loot

0
So the good news for people looking forward to Tarisland is that the developers have consolidated the major feedback from the game's closed beta...

Fractured Online suffered two more rollbacks and replaced server in nasty ‘streak of bad luck’

0
Fractured Online just can't catch a break: Following a duping exploit, hard drive failure, and day-long rollback, the early access sandbox MMORPG is now...
Isn't it all nice?

Fractured Veil makes more roadmap tweaks for 2024 but still projects January 18 early access launch

0
Fractured Veil has been changing its plans more frequently than people change their underwear, so it's probably not too big a surprise to learn...

The Quinfall studio Vawraek defends its use of AI and ‘ready-made assets’

12
Some days we live for drama and popcorn, and today we're all out of freshly-popped kernels. So we'll turn our attention to The Quinfall,...

Fractured Online’s duping and hard drive downtime turns into 24-hour rollback

0
Fractured Online is dealing with yet another round of chaos this week. Readers will recall that a duping-related downtime this weekend was compounded by...