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]

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Take a look at Crowfall’s male Ranger and female Champion

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Each of Crowfall's archetypes tends to be associated with a specific gender because the game's archetypes are a bit more comprehensive than simply classes....
Literally a fresh hell.

Albion Online introduces the Hell artifacts

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A new batch of artifacts is arriving in Albion Online, and it's hellish. These are literally called the Hell Artifacts, you see, and are...

See how you can build your own spaceships in Dual Universe

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If you've ever watched developers slap together spaceships (and sell them to you for a few hundred actual, not-play-money dollars) and thought, "I could...

ARK: Survival Evolved’s first expansion, Scorched Earth, is now on Steam

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Studio Wildcard has made good on the ARK: Survival Evolved tease it issued earlier this week: It's just announced its first expansion pack, ARK:...

You can hide your costume in City of Titans

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"It's taken three years. Three years of every possible thing going wrong. Three years of trial and effort, of skill and talent, of error...
I'm sorry this is the only long-form article you're likely to get, Twin Saga.

Twin Saga enters open beta today with Dragonknights, level cap of 65

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Aeria's Twin Saga MMORPG enters open beta in the west as of today. The company says that closed beta saw 700,000 logins and 250,000...
Okay...

Wild Terra adds blacksmithing and more metal items

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Did you dig up a whole lot of metal when Wild Terra introduced mining with no thought to what you'd do with it? We...

AdventureQuest 3D gives a spooky tour of its Halloween dungeon

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According to major retail stores, we're already in the Halloween-slash-Thanksgiving-slash-Christmas shopping season, so don't be too scandalized when you hear that AdventureQuest 3D is...

The Stream Team: Master X Master’s minigames

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Master X Master is wrapping up another alpha, but not before MassivelyOP's MJ makes it in for a few rounds. How have things developed...

Crowfall answers more questions on building in your Eternal Kingdom

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Player housing? Pah. That's thinking small. Now Crowfall, Crowfall is working on delivering its players the keys to citadels, castles, and palaces. It's a...
Also, it's crazy random.

First impressions of World of Warcraft: Legion, part two

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When last we left off, the world was screwed. World of Warcraft: Legion doesn't tell you that you're facing a huge threat, it just...

Camelot Unchained continues ‘re-abilitation’ project ahead of beta

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7400 words: That makes this month's Camelot Unchained newsletter one of the shortest to date, but it's still packed with info. "In brief, a...

Project Gorgon promises weekly updates, eyes late 2017 launch

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Fans of Project Gorgon who are starved for news about the in-development indie title will be glad to hear that the team has promised...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 80: Enter the Legion

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Guild Wars 2, RIFT, Trove, EverQuest II, Wargaming, Funcom, Star Citizen, SOTA, and TERA, with mailbag questions on gaming/life balance and dungeon bookmarks.

Livelock is live on PC and console today

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Perfect World's co-op shooter Livelock has formally launched today on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 after a brief delay from its original planned...

Check out the picture of Lost Ark’s beta endgame

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What are you going to do once you hit the level cap in Lost Ark? Sure, get gear and do stuff, but what gear...

H1Z1: King of the Kill launches for PC on September 20, ‘pauses’ console development

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You might have thought zombie survival sandbox H1Z1 had already launched, considering you probably paid for it back in January of 2015 when it hit early...

Otherland hits open beta today, launches free-to-play on September 8

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The Tad Williams-inspired sci-fi MMO Otherland shuts down today for a week of open beta. When it returns for its planned September 8th launch, it...

Shroud of the Avatar is working on new city templates, lot raffling system

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter celebrates the additional $200,000 in crowdfunding raised during the latest telethon and recaps the launch of the 33rd...
I'm sorry this is the only long-form article you're likely to get, Twin Saga.

Twin Saga finishes its stress test and turns servers off before open beta

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We hope you got everything you wanted done during the Twin Saga stress test, because it's done with now. The servers are coming down,...