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]

Landmark is giving new players a slice of pioneer territory

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Being flat and featureless isn't always a bad thing. For example, if you're looking to build amazing structures without a lot of hassle from...

Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria’s $900k goal (March 5, 2016)

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Indie MMO Chronicles of Elyria announced this week that it's plotting a May Kickstarter with a $900,000 goal. The game is probably best known...
money money money

Get hyped for The Division with these TV spots

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"When society falls, we rise." Are you ready for The Division? It's just a few short days until this entry into the Tom Clancy video game...

Camelot Unchained: Picking flowers, rocking armor, crafting all the things

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Camelot Unchained's latest dev update went up last night, and it's predictably dense. Along with the usual list of dev card updates, there's a...
Like a boss.

Betawatch: Camelot Unchained hits the beta crunch (March 4, 2016)

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The Camelot Unchained team is in the midst of a hard crunch period to get the game ready for full beta testing. The good...

Mobile MU: Origins starts second closed beta

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For the next three days, the upcoming mobile version of MU Online -- called MU: Origins -- will be running another closed beta. This...

The Black Death’s latest trailer highlights merchants and housing

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What would a medieval sandbox be without merchants to make money off of all the plague-ridden peasants? If you said nowhere, then today's Black Death...

The Stream Team: Airlifting ARK’s dinos

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Now that MassivelyOP's MJ and the tribe have a quetzal at their disposal, it's time to show off what this behemoth can do. Because...

World of Fishing aims for Steam’s casuals, hardcores, and MMO lovers

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Why take up fishing in a traditional MMO when you can take up fishing in a fishing MMO? World of Fishing aims to be...
It looks much better now.

City of Titans has pubbed video of its ‘functional first pass’ build

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City of Heroes-inspired superhero indie MMO City of Titans has hit a major milestone this week: It's created its "first packaged executable that ...
More like up-close-er at this point, am I right? No. No, I am not right.

Crowfall looks at the early version of the Ranger’s powers

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The Ranger is not a ranged character in Crowfall, but she's also not a melee character. She's a hybrid between the two playstyles, able...

Star Citizen pushes Alpha 2.2 to live

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It's time to strap yourself in and put on your big captain boots, for Star Citizen's Alpha 2.2 is here, and it's bringing a...

The Panther and Weasel rumble into Heroes & Generals

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If you're playing as the Germans in Heroes & Generals, it's probably been with the hope that you'd get to take some of that...
Albion

Albion Online devs on next update and test populations

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Albion Online Game Director Robin Henkys and Creative Director Jörg Friedrich have posted their first dev vlog. In it, they give an overview of...

Ride a bear to work in Wild Terra

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According to car commercials, your mode of transportation says a lot about you. So why be like the other chumps that drive an SUV...
It's for my experimental patch which nobody knows about, and yet...

Gigantic releases a big (experimental) update today

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The beta test for Gigantic is still ongoing despite the financial difficulty of its development studio, but you can't take part in that test...
Down the only road we now know, apparently.

Paragon’s early access starts on March 18 with Founder’s packs

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There have been plenty of tidbits coming out about Paragon lately, but you won't have to rely upon tidbits to get a sense of...
What if this is as good as it'll ever get?

World of Warcraft updates its expansion alpha and opens up PvP testing

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One of the big elements being introduced to World of Warcraft when Legion goes live is an entirely revamped PvP system, rebuilt from the...

No Man’s Sky launches June 21, $59.99 base, $149.99 limited-edition CE

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Hello Games has announced that procedurally generated sci-fi sandbox No Man's Sky is officially launching on June 21st on PS4 and on PC through Steam and GOG This...

Get a first look at The Division’s season pass details

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The Division launches next week, and you know what that means: Everyone will be asking, "What's next?" Ubisoft has already planned out an entire...