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]

Shroud of the Avatar marks 10 years with portals to the chicken room and previews a ‘sneak scene’

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It just ain't a party unless you step into a dungeon crawl where you get to slaughter legions of chickens! Or that's apparently the...

Palworld details pet mechanics and critters, Craftopia shares its latest roadmap

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It's a pair of Pocket Pair updates in this news story, with the developer continuing to crank out the pet-focused footage for its still-gestating...

Players cast doubts about The Quinfall’s claims as studio reaffirms January 30 closed beta date

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Following the absolute oil fire that was The Day Before, gamers are becoming more and more skeptical of large promises being made by The...
Sure, great, very efficient.

Throne & Liberty KR is already engaging server merges a month after its launch

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It has barely been a month since Throne & Liberty released to Korean players, but already the game is beginning to merge its servers...

Progress Bar: Another go-round with cozy ‘MMO’ Palia, this time on the Switch

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I'm not much of a console player in general. The controller has always felt limiting to me, especially when compared with the precision of...

Star Citizen studio CIG claims increases in revenue, salaries, headcount, and costs in 2022 financial year report

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The 2022 fiscal year for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 developer Cloud Imperium Games can best be described as "all the numbers were bigger":...

Exercise-inspiring WalkScape heads to closed beta in January

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If your big resolution for 2024 is to get moving and get healthy, then there's one game that could be your best friend on...

StarCraft-inspired RTS Stormgate rockets to crowdfunding success

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Those missing the halcyon days of the real-time strategy craze may be in for a revival of sorts, as a group of ex-Blizzard developers...
Maybe? Maybe not.

Job listings suggest Sony’s Horizon MMO aka Project Skyline is actually happening

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It was a little over a year ago that we first reported that Sony and NCsoft possibly were teaming up to create an MMORPG...

Digital Extremes boss shares an hour of Soulframe pre-alpha gameplay in a livestream

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We can likely count on one hand the number of times a game development studio's CEO has decided to livestream gameplay footage, but that...
Like a boss.

Betawatch: Camelot Unchained promises good news in 2024

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Look, Camelot Unchained, I see you promising good things for 2024. I am glad that January will mark a new push of the game...

BitCraft talks about terraforming, player buildings, and the goals of its next closed alpha

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The close of December is bringing more technical and granular gifts from the developers of sandbox MMO BitCraft, with a new blog that's all...

Pax Dei promises ‘several milestones’ and shares new screenshots in an end-of-year message to fans

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Pax Dei has had a pretty productive year by all accounts, with a first-ever alpha test that drew in over 12,000 players and plenty...

Player-vs-developer ‘medium fantasy’ MMO Astaria pops back up as Arvita

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We would not blame you in the least if you had no recollection of Astaria. This was a suspicious project that was supposed to...

Anvil Empires shares pre-alpha gameplay footage of a fort siege and life in a player-built settlement

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With the latest weekend pre-alpha test of Anvil Empires now wrapped up, developer Siege Camp has decided to throw some spotlights across a couple...

VR MMO Ilysia merges servers and has players save the holidays from the Evil Gromch

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While the Christmas season has passed us by on the calendar, the holidays are still rolling on in MMO lands including the VR world...

Kickstarted solarpunk cozy MMO Loftia ends 2023 with 500K followers and an expanded vision

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With $1.2 million raised from a Kickstarter campaign and a half-million people following it on social media, Loftia is ending 2023 on a decidedly...

Past Fate’s latest patch focuses on exploration with updated landscapes and new secrets

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One of the more fun things to do in a sandbox MMORPG (for a certain type of player) is to roam around the game...

Cross-platform spellcasting MMO Wizard’s Wrath cancels its Kickstarter campaign

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Were the promises too grand, the scope too big, or the marketing too small? No matter what the reason, Wizard's Wrath saw a miserable...

CCP Games maps out six months of EVE Vanguard patches, feature updates, and testing

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Did you miss out on the Vanguard FPS testing that was held in EVE Online? Worry not because CCP Games has a whole lot...