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]

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...

Hardcore MMO Eternal Tombs says it’s pushing hard for a 2025 launch

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If Eternal Tombs has flown under your radar up until now, perhaps it's time to pay closer attention. Not only does this tough MMO...

Tencent’s Tarisland previews the pungent Merfolk Swamp dungeon

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With 2024 right around the corner, it's almost like Tarisland knows that the pressure is rising to deliver an entertaining MMO experience and sell...

Star Citizen releases a new Legatus backer bundle that costs $48,000

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Would you rather buy a reasonably reliable car or a whole bunch of internet spaceships? If for some reason you chose the latter, then...

Arena shooter The Finals closes out 2023 with 10 million players

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Even with controversy surrounding its use of AI voice acting, arena shooter The Finals is ending 2023 on a high note. Embark Studios announced...
Posing?

Wayfinder’s studio vows continued progress: ‘The world is about to get a whole lot larger’

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Admitting a rocky 2023 and projecting excitement for 2024, Wayfinder's dev team put out a short video to wrap up the year by thanking...

Camelot Unchained heralds the start of its next beta and hints at ‘good news’ in 2024

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A short holiday address from Camelot Unchained pretty much continues the trend of vaguely promising forward momentum on the PvP MMORPG, which hints at...

Greg Street’s Ghost MMO heralds 2024 focus on prototyping combat, classes, art, and player-owned land

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Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street is probably one of the few people who can get off calling his MMO project Ghost without coming off as screechingly...
I'm fine. We're fine. This is fine. Everything's fine like wine.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation and Age of Water target next year for more testing

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Turns out that this week you were obligated to have some testing plans ready for 2024 if your game title is structured as X...

Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore launches a holiday event as its studio reaffirms the game isn’t its sole focus

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Good news! Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore is still seeing updates! Bad news, the developer Blankhans is still repeating its earlier intention of focusing...

Waven’s third chapter of its Lance Dur season brings a new character, new island, and new narrative

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This week is the culmination of the Lance Dur season in Waven, and it's bringing a whole lot of things for players to do...

The Day Before Steam keys go for three figures on the grey market as Fntastic announces server closures

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We all thought that news from The Day Before was going to end too, but the whole sordid story of this zombie extraction shooter...
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Palia is officially coming to Steam in 2024

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If you want to get more people interested in your video game, having said video game be on Steam is a good place to...

Pantheon boss on canceled 247 mode: ‘The community quite literally freaked out’

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With December almost wrapping up, Visionary Realms CEO Chris Rowan is taking a moment to pen a retrospective of the year that was for...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen pledges extra test sessions following a cancellation of alpha backer access

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Earlier this week, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen ran into a SNAFU with a backend system that ultimately led to Visionary Realms cancelling a...

Pax Dei ponders a box price with sub monetization balanced with a free trial and possible game time tokens

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Where does the developing sandbox MMO Pax Dei stand on monetization? "Well, we’re sorry to say we haven’t figured it all out —...

Ashes of Creation confirms Alpha Two for third quarter of 2024, shows off the updated Ranger

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It's like Alpha One but with seconds, or at least a number two beside it: Intrepid Studios announced near the end of its most...

Warhaven’s second pre-season brings a new character, combat updates, and 12v12 deathmatch

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Warhaven is not dead, it was simply taking a break after its Halloween update. Break time is over now, though, and the team vs....

Kritika Online is coming back for the fourth time, this time under the stewardship of Valofe

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Kritika Online seems to keep coming back like a bad penny. The anime action combat MMO: First landed on western shores in 2017 until...

A fresh first impressions: Checking out Palia for the first time on Switch

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Outside of MMORPGs, life sims are probably the most-played genre in my household. I originally bought Stardew Valley for my wife a few years...