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]

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s Starfarer, Dragon of Legends’ Kickstarter win (March 26, 2016)

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This week in crowdfunded MMO development, Dragon of Legends' Kickstarter ended successfully, netting over $15,000 US for the OARPG studio; Star Citizen released alpha 2.3,...

Camelot Unchained’s weekly update focuses on lighting, armor, and clutter

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Camelot Unchained is crunching along, this week squeezing in time for another meaty update. "In terms of our biggest achievements this week, our lighting...

The Stream Team: A look at Chronicle: RuneScape Legends’ beta

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Tabletop meets CCG in Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, and now you can finally see just exactly what that means! MassivelyOP's MJ has been eager to show...

EverQuesting: First impressions of life after Landmark’s latest wipe

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When Daybreak drops a big Landmark patch, it apparently does so quite literally... onto hard, unforgiving concrete... from the top of a tall building....

The Stream Team: Bringing down ARK’s Broodmother

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So far, ARK: Survival Evolved has very few mega boss mobs. That's not to say that there isn't plenty of opportunity for death, but...
Supplies.

Betawatch: Crowfall’s Ranger surprise (March 25, 2016)

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The Crowfall team has stated its plans to release the Siege Perilous update this month for testers, and the Ranger archetype was originally scheduled...
No top guns here.

Star Citizen’s latest Around the Verse covers the parts of the game and the availability of ships

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If you're eagerly awaiting Star Citizen's next major version update, you can take heart that it's on its way. The latest issue of Around...

Tree of Savior outlines founder launch, F2P transition plan

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IMCGAMES has updated Tree of Savior fans on its founder server and future free-to-play plans. The studio says Tree of Savior's initial founder's server will...

Coding and cupcakes: The lawsuit against ARK

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Are cupcake and coding skills mutually exclusive? That might actually be a relevant question in relation to the recent lawsuit Trendy Entertainment filed in...

Eternal Crusade expands battle maps to 64 players, introduces stronghold mode

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To war! To victory! To patching! The battle cry has gone out for Eternal Crusade founders, who can now download and try out the game's...

Landmark hotfix patches bugs, Daybreak addresses currency issue

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Landmark's patch week has been a bumpy one, with repeated downtimes that made it hard for anyone to play consistently. This morning's downtime hoped...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon lays the foundation for player testing

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Darkfall's Rise of Agon reboot spent the last week prepping the servers for the game's eventual player test, according to a new developer diary....

Revival’s development has been indefinitely suspended

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We're sorry to report this afternoon that indie grimdark sandbox Revival is being put on indefinite hold. Illfonic's Adam "Snipehunter" Maxwell has posted that formal...

Heretics storm into Albion Online

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Albion Online is beefing up its PvE game with this month's Cador update. If you've been following this title for any length of time,...

Crowfall demos new full-screen character viewport and more UI tweaks

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Crowfall UX design lead Billy Garretsen has a new State of the UI video out today in which he discusses the changes to the...

The Stream Team: Looking at Landmark’s latest wipe

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Landmark's big spring update dropped this week... and promptly broke. There's already been another wipe! Things have definitely been wonky, but MassivelyOP's MJ has...
It's the circle of something, anyway.

Gloria Victis adds new exile islands and smoother new player experience

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Being a griefing jerk is an option in Gloria Victis, but it's not supposed to be a terribly attractive one. The most recent update...

ARK: Survival Evolved studio hit with lawsuit

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Kotaku has reported on an ongoing lawsuit lodged by Dungeon Defenders developer Trendy Entertainment against ARK: Survival Evolved's Studio Wildcard. Trendy has alleged that...

Chronicle: RuneScape Legends transitions into open beta

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Advertising itself as having "no mana, no minions, and definitely no random number generation," Chronicle: RuneScape Legends offers players a different kind of digital...
Thaaaaaaanks.

Overwatch outlines its progression system and patches in new gameplay

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Characters in Overwatch do not level. You can play nothing but Tracer day in and day out, and she's still going to have the...

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