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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Ethyrial Echoes of Yore’s updates continue with guilds, bank rework, new maps, rare drops, and relic system plans

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We're circling back once more to the sandbox MMORPG Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore to chronicle the continued series of development updates made by the...

Lord of the Rings Online revs up for Legacy of Morgoth with testing and preview

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It's just a week and change until Lord of the Rings Online introduces its 10th expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, to the world on November...

Star Citizen players raise the alarm over internet spaceship nerfs that conveniently favor newer options

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Generally, official forums for games are unhappy places in the best of times, but backers of Star Citizen are getting vocally resistant to ship...

Warframe 1999 preps for December launch, Soulframe plans open pre-alpha in 2025

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This week was another info-filled livestream from the developers of Warframe and Soulframe, as Digital Extremes once again provided important dates and details for...

Mistfall Hunter is a PvPvE extraction ARPG for Steam and Xbox set in a world ruined by Ragnarok

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The multiplayer extraction sub-genre is once more getting another entry, only this time we're headed for a world that persists after the annihilation of...
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Betawatch: Wayfinder makes a triumphant launch, Brighter Shores begins CBT

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You can't blame anyone who was skeptical that Wayfinder would make it to launch. It's seen some pretty rough waters. But it did make...

Legacy Steel & Sorcery explains its overall mechanics and debuts a new gameplay trailer

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Earlier this month, we caught wind of Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, an in-development PvPvE extraction RPG from Notorious Studios, which is made up of...

Monster Hunter Wilds unveils new region and new monsters ahead of open beta October 31

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This week saw Capcom debut another showcase video for the multiplayer RPG Monster Hunter Wilds, which not only highlighted a new area and three...

Pax Dei outlines changes to gathering, crafting, and looting coming in November 5’s Proving Grounds update

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Pax Dei has about a week and a half left to go before its Proving Grounds update goes live, and while the biggest features...

Trine studio Frozenbyte is still working on 2021 sci-fi sandbox Starbase

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The public testing of features for sci-fi building sandbox Starbase that first started in July and picked back up in September has continued to...

Old School RuneScape tests run energy changes and shares community server dev progress

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Old School RuneScape is positively flush with information this week, with Jagex kicking out multiple dev blogs about what it's got cooking across the...

Rumor: Guild Wars 2-themed digital CCG is called Lion’s Arch Guild Wars Arena – and it’s coming to Steam

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Those sneaky sleuthy Redditors appear to have uncovered something that ArenaNet and NCsoft appear to be preparing to unveil. A SteamDB update shared by...

Stars Reach is dropping ‘a sense of pride and accomplishment’ trophies in tester inventories

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Stars Reach isn't just teasing players who want to test it but haven't been invited yet; it's also trolling the people in its test. "We...

My Time at Evershine’s Kickstarter ends successfully with nearly $3M raised from gamers

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The appetite for the multiplayer RPG My Time at Evershine was already pretty apparent when its Kickstarter campaign met its goal within 30 minutes,...

Dreamhaven-pubbed co-op roguelite Lynked Banner of the Spark enters early access

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Are you ready to take on adorable-sounding enemies known as Combots, befriend similarly adorable-sounding Unibots, and play with friends together in a colorful-looking co-op...

Nightingale patches in Halloween and confirms layoffs at Inflexion’s UK subsidiary

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It's patch day over in co-op sandbox Nightingale, and it's a good patch too as it includes the game's Halloween event. "Head on over to...

Brighter Shores’ closed beta begins behind an NDA as player trading is delayed

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Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG from Jagex co-founder Andrew Gower, officially enters closed beta this week - but you won't be hearing much about...

NCsoft MOBA Battle Crush will sunset in November without ever leaving early access

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With all the bad news out of NCsoft this week - and MMORPG players' fixation on the fate of NCsoft's core MMORPGs - it...

Fntastic pulls the plug on Escape Factory crowdfunding, shifts instead to another prop hunt game

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If we're all very honest, the crowdfunding drive for The Day Before developer Fntastic's obstacle course platformer Escape Factory was very likely never going...

Dark and Darker Mobile delays launch from fall 2024 to the first half of 2025

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I'm sure you've noticed by now, but October is a huge month for game delays, as studios look at the fall calendar and all...