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]

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...
Not the chess maneuver.

Crowfall says it’s retooling its ‘test cadence’

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ArtCraft says it's "shifting gears" and recalibrating Crowfall's "test cadence." "Over the next few months, we are going to adjust our test cadence and gauge...
Like it needs the help.

Saga of Lucimia explains its pillar of group gameplay in-depth

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One of the pillars that Saga of Lucimia prides itself upon is the idea of group-based gameplay. You may think that this is an...
Keep it going, folks.

Das Tal seeks feedback on settlement buildings, announces clan alpha contest

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A lot of MMOs talk big about giving players a say in their development, but few deliver the way Fairytale Distillery is by way...

Project Genom doubles its world size and improves character progression

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In-development sci-fi MMO Project Genom released a big patch this week. The inconspicuously named 0.6 update, studio NeuronHaze says, represents big changes to "the bulk...
Forged.

Here’s how commercial buildings work in Chronicles of Elyria

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Chronicles of Elyria's latest Kickstarter update is all about commercial buildings, which would sound super boring if this were real life. But it's video...
After the end of Spirited Away, No-Face was forced to do horrible things to survive until his next starring role.

Asta officially launches with its first major expansion

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It is just a little bit odd that Asta: The War of Tears and Winds is launching when its first expansion drops. Those two...

Project Gorgon’s new patch buffs guilds and pigs

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Project Gorgon has been graced with a huge patch this week, the star of which is probably a massive overhaul of guilds. "Guilds can...

‘Boundless MMO’ Dual Universe announces itself to the world

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Back in February of this year, Massively OP got wind of an upcoming science-fiction MMO in development called Dual Universe. This looked like an interesting...