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]

Star Citizen deep-dives catastrophic capital ship damage

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On this week's Star Citizen: Around the Verse, you can safely skip to about 19:30 and peel your eyes wide open. Not that the rest...

Crowfall teases the Guinecean Duelist, shifts development to focus on foundations

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Small and deadly: That might just be the motto of the Guinecean Duelist, Crowfall's newest archetype in development. ArtCraft teased the pint-sized class yesterday and...
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World of Warcraft shows off its Legion leveling experience

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The leveling experience of World of Warcraft: Legion is going to be rather different from previous expansions, starting with the fact that the answer...

Revelation Online will boast giant turtle housing

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Housing is definitely becoming more accepted across the MMORPG genre, so while it may not be a surprise that the upcoming Revelation Online will...

Bloodline Champions to be revived as ‘team arena brawler’ Battlerite

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Stunlock Studios has big plans for the charred remains of Funcom-backed Bloodline Champions, which shut down in January of last year and transferred back to Stunlock....

What drives Star Citizen’s superbackers to spend $10,000 or more

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By now, Star Citizen's crowdfunding success is quite well-known. But perhaps what isn't common knowledge is that there is a group of players --...
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Revelation Online offers future players a fly-through tour

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You cannot actually fly through the realm of Nuanor in Revelation Online at the moment. The game's testing is scheduled to begin in the...

Giveaway: Lawbreakers alpha keys from Nexon and MOP [All gone!]

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Nexon's kicking off an alpha weekend for LawBreakers this coming Saturday. Wanna jump in and try it yourself? The studio has granted Massively OP 1000 keys for the...

Winning Putt expands guild offerings, welcomes summer festival

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Winning Putt is putting the emphasis on guilds (shouldn't they be associations?) with its big summer update. Guilds can now expand to 40 members...

Gloria Victis unleashes a trio of pre-alpha patches

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Early game development is often marked by frequent patching as the team feverishly works to shape and mold the title. Gloria Victis is definitely...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon closed beta opens up on Friday

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If you're still sad about Darkfall: Unholy Wars' abrupt maintenance mode or Darkfall: New Dawn's public indev soft-launch didn't do it for you, Darkfall: Rise of...

New Transformers mobile MMO vows to be ‘more than meets the eye’

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Could the Transformers MMO that you've desired for so many years be finally coming... to mobile? At ChinaJoy this past week, Hasbro announced that it...

Sea of Thieves video helps you get a handle on the game concept

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Did you read our Sea of Thieves E3 interview and come out with more questions than you had going into it? Are you still curious...
How now brown cow.

Crowfall shows off the power design for the Myrmidon

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Crowfall's Myrmidon is the kind of fighter who attacks first, then attacks second, crushes everything to dust, and then asks questions of the smoldering...

The Stream Team: Launching into Livelock’s open protocol mode

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The launch itself might have been postponed indefinitely, but as promised, MassivelyOP's MJ is heading back into Livelock to continue the campaign. So far,...
The car don't work.

Escape from Tarkov previews its technical alpha testing specs

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The purpose of Escape from Tarkov's technical alpha starting on August 4th is to see how the game works under strain. It is not...

Edengrad gears up for its upcoming alpha

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If you knew the end of the world was coming, what would you want to get done before it happened? For Edengrad's post-apocalyptic setting,...
Well, that's something.

Players dig up details on Lost Ark’s classes

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We know that many of you are following the development and testing of the gorgeous MMOARPG Lost Ark, hoping that the Korean beta will...

WildCard recombines ARK versions back into one game, adds SOTF modding and VR

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Remember back when Studio WildCard split ARK into two stand-alone games, Survival Evolved and Survival of the Fittest? Well, ignore that. The studio is...
The fun of getting lost, being upset, and getting annoyed.

Chronicles of Elyria on expanding team, creature models, and backer-only videos

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This week's Chronicles of Elyria update features the Ursaphant mount, which is exactly what is sounds like: an adorable elephant bear thing. Soulbound Studios says...

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