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]

Last Epoch offers a deep-dive into the faction-based item trade system arriving in February 21 launch

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Loot. It's one of the big motivators for playing most OARPGs and Last Epoch is certainly no exception, so word that the game is...

Skull and Bones celebrates ‘hundreds of thousands of players’ in closed beta, teases open beta soon

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Whether you believe Ubisoft Singapore or not, the studio is more than happy to toot its horn over Skull and Bones' successful December closed...

Star Citizen’s CIG was hit with a measly $190 fine for… not filing its 2022 financial report on time

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"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class," so sayeth the meme, and that...

Project Gorgon unloads an even bigger boss gauntlet challenge with last week’s patch

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Smacking down the rogue's gallery of crazy bosses in Project Gorgon isn't exactly the goal of the game, but it is an amusing and...

Fractured Online weathers downtime over a dupe exploit and a failing hard drive

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If there's an MMO community that's more twitchy about hacks than Fractured Online, we haven't met it. Nervous attitudes are to be expected, too,...

Make My MMO: MMO crowdfunding at the top of 2024, from Ashes to Zenith

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Welcome to our very first Make My MMO of 2024! When we last checked in on the crowdfunded games of our genre, we were...

Nightingale’s clockwork Knights won’t take any prisoners

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The many realms that Nightingale adventurers will visit may be beautiful, but they'll also be stocked with dangers a-plenty. One of these is the...
Smite, then smite again.

Betawatch: SMITE 2 encourages you to smite what has already been smitten

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So, who had SMITE 2 on their watchlists for this year? Probably not many people, but Hi-Rez Studios has announced that the game is...

Solium Infernum is a ‘strategy game from hell’ hosting multiplayer tests this weekend

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Normally a title being called a "strategy game from hell" isn't what you would consider glowing praise, but in the case of Solium Infernum...

PSA: Cryptocurrency scammers are stealing Solarpunk’s assets for use in NFTs and a supposed metaverse

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At this point we'd like to believe that the vast majority of our readers are assured that cryptocurrency games, metaverses, and NFTs are all...

Book of Travels adds new caves, opens a new EU server, and releases a trailer encouraging multiplayer roaming

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Most of the time entering a cave in an MMO is usually going to see your character fighting things - implausibly sized spiders, more...

Eternal Tombs teases its magic systems with a new video

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With a steely eye cast toward a 2025 launch for Eternal Tombs (fka War of Dragnorox), Triune Studios needs to make sure that every...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen admits recent pre-alpha MMORPG testing brought ‘a plethora of glorious data’

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It's often important to be gracious in victory or humble that your knowledge and advice was correct despite it falling upon deaf ears. That...

Lasuni is a 2-D browser-based free-to-play MMO that’s eyeing a return in 2024

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Yes, you read that headline right; this is the story of a re-launch, though it's also about an MMORPG that you may not have...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Trimurti Online, Karos Classic, Quest Master’s Realm

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! First off, we'll point out that this...

Whatever happened to EverQuest Online Adventures’ rogue servers?

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Rogue servers are on the brain right now, particularly since a certain superhero MMORPG got its rubber stamping, which brings us to look toward...

Multiplayer critter capturing survivalbox Palworld enters early access January 19

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Over the past three years we've been covering the development of Palworld, a multiplayer survival sandbox from developer Pocketpair that was first announced in...

Dune Awakening’s latest promo video shows Funcom’s lean toward transmedia synergy

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If you spent all last year waiting for Dune Awakening news, well, you're probably pretty hungry, as we got only a few scraps of...

Warframe sees over 100K players link accounts cross-platform, Soulframe expands testing

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Expect to hear from Warframe developer Digital Extremes more in 2024 thanks to a new weekly YouTube series called DevShorts that aims to bring...

Strategy MMO Myth of Empires is (re)launching on February 21st

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Not every MMO gets a second shot at life, especially after clawing itself out of a legal morass, but one title has seized that...