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]

Asta starts open beta with giveaways

13
The open beta for the eastern fantasy title Asta is now upon us, as Webzen is welcoming anyone with an account to come and try...
Rank 17! I am SO important to the world!

Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan on Overwatch’s ranked play philosophy

19
If you were hoping that the latest development video for Overwatch from game director Jeff Kaplan would reveal the ins and outs of the...

Das Tal readies an alpha pre-test for later this month

0
When is a test not a test? When it's a pre-test, of course! Oh, just ignore the silly terminology to accept the fact that...
Welcome to the no. No. I'm tired of this joke. I hate that song. No.

SMITE’s PlayStation 4 closed beta kicks off today

4
Heads up, console MOBA fans: SMITE officially enters closed beta on PS4 today. "All of SMITE’s game modes will be made available," says Hi-Rez, "and...

Crowfall’s visuals are ‘stylized… with a little more grit’

13
Some of the criminally unsung heroes of MMOs are the artists who strive to sculpt and design the look of a game to fit...

Trinium Wars releases on Steam early access

16
It's 200 years after World War III (the time just flies by, doesn't it?) and two factions are engaged in a ruthless struggle on...
Balanced!

Camelot Unchained discusses balance in the midst of the beta crunch

23
The developers behind Camelot Unchained are currently in the midst of a hard crunch to get the game's beta ready for players to, well,...

Escape from Tarkov looks at the creation of a realistic game world

4
When players take on the role of a mercenary in Escape from Tarkov, they won't be sprinting around a stylistically exaggerated world. On the...
Open for everyone, just like forever.

Asta opens up client download for its open beta on March 2nd

2
Boy, it seems like only yesterday that March wasn't yet a month to be worried about, doesn't it? Probably because yesterday it was still...

The Division releases US launch trailer

15
Fancy some eyecandy to go with your apocalypse? Ubisoft has posted the US launch trailer for online shooter The Division, and it's got a...
You are dead. Did you even read?

Survarium deploys patch 0.40 to its live servers with UI changes and weapon modules

5
Sure, you're in the middle of a pitched battle for survival with whatever you can find in Survarium, but that doesn't mean that you...

AdventureQuest 3D is launching cross-platform this October

9
What began as a cute RPG parody in flash back in 2002 will soon become a true cross-platform MMORPG. Artix Entertainment announced today that...

PWE shooter Livelock reveals trailer for player Vanguard

6
Perfect World's upcoming robot-vs.-robot co-op shooter Livelock has a new video today showcasing the player Vanguard. "Quiet, diligent and calculated, Vanguard joins the roster of...
Camelot Unchained

Camelot Unchained passes ‘send more programmers’ stretch goal

72
Camelot Unchained just announced that it's passed its "$3,900,000 - Send more programmers" stretch goal, which enables City State Entertainment to hire "two additional...
THere's a big picture here that you may not be seeing.

Darkfall: Rise of Agon is now in development

17
Are you interested in a Darkfall reboot? No, not the official one that rewrote the game's core structure, but something throwing the game back...

Star Citizen promises larger server capacity, talks about procedural tech

43
Seventy-seven episodes in, you'd think that Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen community would run out of questions about the game. But it looks...
Robot rock.

Check out footage of the Figureheads Online pre-open beta testing

18
There's still no official announcement about Figureheads being localized in English, but Square-Enix's upcoming third-person mech-based shooter does have English localization files in its...

Chronicles of Elyria eyes May for its Kickstarter campaign, posts new footage

44
While it once started as a very small and inexpensive indie project, Chronicles of Elyria has grown over the past two years to the...
Black Desert

The Daily Grind: If an MMO has a cash shop, when should it launch?

126
Massively OP reader Leiloni pointed out to us something unusual about Black Desert: Its much-talked-about cash shop wasn't originally going to open until March 10th,...
Well done, lads.

The Culling runs through its closed alpha test

8
The Culling, that Hunger Games-inspired multiplayer deathmatch game, is currently in the thick of its closed alpha test. A "select number of participants" pulled...