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]

Trinium Wars pushes Steam launch to March, demos 1000-player PvP

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InselGames and HanmaruSoft have today posted a trailer for Trinium Wars' large-scale PvP gameplay, called Resource War. The Resource War mode plays out on...

NCsoft’s Master X Master’s ‘global’ test due to begin soon

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NCsoft has announced that the first global test for its upcoming franchise-blending MOBA Master X Master is on the way. Curiously, the "global" test appears...

The Black Death survival sandbox seeks testers, posts fresh trailer

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Introduced back in January, The Black Death is a survival sandbox in which players are medieval commoners struggling to make it during a nasty...

Everything you need to know about The Division’s open beta test

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Because we love you so, we want to remind you that it is Wednesday and that in just a couple of days, The Division...

Eternal Crusade says Eldar and Orks soon, introduces the loadout system

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Soon, Eternal Crusade won't just be Space Marines duking it out in PvP. In a new State of the Crusade, the devs said that...
One day the snow began to fall...

Black Desert gears up for its final closed beta test

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The release date for Black Desert grows ever closer, and that means that its final round in beta is just about here. The final...
Not surprising, still sad.

A day in the life of a Revival hunter

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While the first pass of renovation kit revisions are in the bag, the most recent entry on Revival's site isn't really about that. Nor...

Asta’s English open beta arrives March 2nd

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Korean import Asta: The War of Tears and Winds is just a few weeks away from open beta here in the west. Publisher Webzen has...
Fall apart and count to ten, take your aim, start again.

Dragon of Legends cancels and restarts Kickstarter with a much lower target

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On February 9th, Dragon of Legends stopped its Kickstarter campaign. The official word was that it was obvious that the campaign was not going...
Which is good, because we have to justify that Xbox One purchase somehow.

Is The Division getting endgame raids?

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Is The Division getting endgame raids? That's the Reddit rumor the fans at Arekkz Gaming speculated on over the weekend. According to the rumor...

BBC investigates ‘mind-boggling’ Star Citizen project

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Star Citizen's $108M (and growing) crowdfunded budget is large enough that it is attracting the attention of many outside the sphere of games journalism. In...

Daum posts Black Desert’s Tamer Awakening video

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Raise your hand if you've been fiddling about with Black Desert's stand-alone character creator in anticipation for the game's western release on March 3rd....

Worlds Adrift’s sky whales are the gentle giants of the clouds

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Welcome back to day 42 of WhaleWatch, your faithful Massively OP feature in which we are looking for any sighting whatsoever of Worlds Adrift's...

Gloria Victis is adding a plundered village this week

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The team over at Gloria Victis is slaving away at building a "living, open world," with efforts being poured into a recent patch to...

Shroud of the Avatar brings ancient opulence to the Halls of Artifice

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Shroud of the Avatar is ever under construction as the game picks up steam for its pseudo-launch this summer. In the latest newsletter, the...
Boss of the road.

Check out the experience of fighting Bless Online’s world bosses

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You wouldn't think that you could have world bosses without instancing in this modern age of MMORPGs, but Bless Online manages to have exactly...
For free

Paragon’s latest video is basically MOBAs for dummies

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How I mine for MOBAs? In its latest Paragon video, Epic is going to assume you have no idea how a MOBA works, which...
Camelot Unpretty.

Camelot Unchained updates fans on the state of its testing

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It's sometimes unsettling when a game's developers go silent for a bit, just because fans don't have any way of knowing what's going on....

Hands-on with The Division’s beta: From character creation to Dark Zone PvP

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A couple of weekends back, I -- like many other players -- took part in the beta weekend for Ubisoft's upcoming MMO shooter, The...

Tree of Savior gives international update, still no release date

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There's a special kind of agony for players who are waiting in limbo for a certain game to arrive in their region (makes you...