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]

There's a thing with this game and redheads, huh?

Betawatch: Crowfall adjusts its testing patterns (May 27, 2016)

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The testing pattern for Crowfall is going to be just a little bit different moving forward, with an emphasis on having fewer phases over...

The Black Death’s latest patch introduces VOIP, player gold looting

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The Black Death's latest patch is a biggun, complete with better guard AI, new NPCs and bosses, traveling merchants, new animals, player gold looting,...

SMITE debuts on the PlayStation 4 next week

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It's official: SMITE arrives on the PlayStation 4 on May 31st. Most recently, Hi-Rez has been touting its 20,000,000 registered players number, a figure sure...

Star Citizen explains 2.4 test pace, begins work on 2.5

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse with hosts Sandi Gardiner and Zane Bien is all about alpha 2.4, which is currently still undergoing testing...

Trinium Wars has gone free-to-play today

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Trinium Wars has officially gone free-to-play today "due to many requests," says InselGames CEO Patrick Streppel. "We have thought long and hard about this major...

Chronicles of Elyria AMA on alpha, middleware, griefing, and B2P

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The Chronicles of Elyria team submitted itself to the wilds of an AMA on Reddit earlier this afternoon, allowing players to bombard the developers...
We're friends, right?

‘Online combat RPG’ Absolver plans 2017 launch

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Absolver is... probably not an MMORPG. But it is an "online combat RPG," which sure sounds like an action combat MMORPG without the "massive"...
loud noises

Check out Crowfall’s Druid in action

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The Druid in Crowfall borrows a bit of a trick from the Ranger insofar as she uses more than one ability tray. In her...

All the islands in the latest Worlds Adrift video were built by players

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Worlds Adrift has released another video today featuring gamers exploring some of the impressive creations whipped up by players themselves thanks to the free...

Survival sandbox Lifeless demos PvP, weapons, and grouping

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Move over, H1Z1: Green Man Gaming, the company behind medieval survival sandbox The Black Death, is also working on Lifeless, a modern survival sandbox......

Life is Feudal’s MMO test is finally underway

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Early in 2016, we spoke to Bitbox about Life is Feudal, an ambitious sandbox that was scaled-down midway through development to be a "pocket"...
Just admit it's launch day.

Shroud of the Avatar’s next major patch lets you target fast and break (your own) stuff

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Nothing lasts forever. Entropy creeps in around the edges at all times. Your favorite new shirt will develop fraying, then holes; your favorite book...

Rumor: No Man’s Sky delayed at least until late summer

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Kotaku is reporting that multiple unnamed sources have confirmed that No Man's Sky has been delayed "until at least July or August." The staggeringly ambitious,...

The Stream Team: Ambling across ARK’s The Center map

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Dying is such a part of life in ARK: Survival Evolved. And now, besides dying to new dinos, you can die on a whole...

Albion Online introduces players to the cold and grueling steppes

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Sandbox Interactive has given gamers a look into Albion Online's freshest biome this week: the steppes. "The steppes are a rough environment," writes the studio....

This is how Conan Exiles’ trailer was made

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Wanna know how Conan Exiles' brutal cinematic teaser trailer was made? Stockholm-based VFX studio Bläck is the group responsible for Funcom's video work there...
Mad skills.

Here’s how Crowfall’s armor effects work per archetype

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Armor is a vital protective element in most MMORPGs, something that ensures that your organs remain unsullied no matter how many hobbies your characters...
Guns.

Master X Master introduces Innowin and a livestreamed tournament

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Master X Master continues its tour of the playable heroes within with the introduction of Innowin, a scout and damage-dealer who prefers that enemies...

Slay ARK’s bosses first on The Center and win cash

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Fame and fortune are a good combination, right? Beyond bragging rights, Studio Wildcard is offering cold hard cash to the first tribes to defeat...

Bless will be down to two Korean servers after its next round of merges

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Back in February, Bless underwent a merge of its servers -- sorry, a "server integration" -- over in Korea. According to Steparu, June will...

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