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]

V Rising plans end of early access in 2024 with a new zone, endgame events, and gameplay tweaks

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V Rising is once more electing to talk about but not talk about future updates as its latest dev blog pirouettes through teases and...

Palia has launched into free-to-play early access on the Nintendo Switch as of today

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It's launch day for Singularity 6's cozy MMO Palia - a launch day of a sort, anyhow, as the early access title joins the...

Wayfinder has stealth-launched a gigantic patch ahead of its winter holiday event Friday

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Fancy a bit o' Christmas in Airship Syndicate's Wayfinder? Good because it's happening Friday. In fact, there's a little preview open already, as last...

Post-apoc shooter Once Human aims for 20,000 players with this month’s closed beta

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Not every magical door opens into Narnia; in fact, some portals should never be breached. Such is the premise of Once Human, a post-apocalyptic...

World of Warcraft starts internal dev testing of The War Within

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While 2024 looks to be a fashionable year to end your expansion titles on a preposition, World of Warcraft: The War Within already kicked...

Mad World’s next patch refines leveling, adds new difficulty options, and applies quality-of-life updates

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The latest patch for the OARPG Mad World appears to be a kitchen sink's worth of updates and adjustments that look to refine the...

Following its alpha test, Pax Dei addresses building freedom and crafting mechanics

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Pax Dei studio Mainframe Industries is back inside the safe walls of its Discord with a new post recapping what it learned from its...

‘Shit happens,’ The Day Before devs tell disgruntled players as mass-refunds continue

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We're into day six of The Day Before drama, which certainly doesn't embroil any of you, as our readers were too clever to buy...

The Day Before dev studio announces its closure, claims the game ‘failed financially’

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It hasn't even been a week between the early access release of The Day Before and today, but supposedly the game's launch has been...

Fractured sets its sights on balancing abilities, monsters, PvP, and gear

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The Great Tuning that began last week in Fractured Online continues as developer Dynamight Studios is making balance and adjustments its top priority in...

The Day Before devs downplay original massively multiplayer pitch as playerbase and reviews plummet

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When survival shooter The Day Before made its scheduled but disastrous early access launch, multiple players pointed out a wealth of issues with the...
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Skull and Bones’ December 14 closed beta will impose a six-hour total playtime limit

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Do you have six hours' worth of free time between December 14th and 18th that you can spare to slake your curiosity about Ubisoft's...

Here’s how multiplayer will work for Nightingale’s early access launch next year

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It's almost as if Inflexion made its latest dev blog for us, as in for the MMO and multiplayer-loving segment of gaming: Nightingale has...

Make My MMO: Wagadu Chronicles’ early access, City of Titans’ surprise patch

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Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Indie Afrofantasy sandbox MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles launched into early access...

Palia brings the holiday cheer with its the next leg of its winter update

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On the cusp of its Nintendo Switch release, Palia is packing in the holiday cheer. The life sim MMO released its winter update this...
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Betawatch: Monsters & Memories throws a testing party for all

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Hey y'all, Monsters & Memories is throwing a testing party and you're all invited! You might think that this would make me happy, but...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: AQ2 Expanse, Project Baxter, Tombstone

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! In today's edition, we've got an indie...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen updates item drops and crafting, recounts a player-organized pre-alpha boss hunt

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The work on the MMORPG pre-alpha testing of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen continues to roll forward, with updates to the build applied last...

The Stream Team: Peeking in on the development progress of Wayfinder

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MOP's Chris is once more taking a moment to try to gauge how Wayfinder is going. Since the multiplayer RPG has had a few...

Star Citizen tweaks how salvaging works, plans for the activity’s launch in alpha 3.22

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Back in July, Star Citizen shared a prototype of how full ship salvaging, aka "munching," was going. Several months later, the activity is back...