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]

ArtCraft starts teasing Crowfall comic book

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Crowfall: The Comic Book? It's happening, although the full recipients of this colorful treat will be limited to those who snag a collector's edition...

ARK: Survival Evolved is coming to Xbox One on December 16

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ARK: Survival Evolved is no longer the sole domain of the PC gamer. As of next week, the early access title will be available...
ENGLISH, GIANT MONSTER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!

Monster Hunter Online’s Chinese team does not oppose an English patch

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A new video is available for the open beta of Monster Hunter Online over in China, which is something less than heartening for our...

EVE Valkyrie will launch bundled with the Oculus Rift

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Oculus and CCP have just announced that the EVE-spinoff VR shooter, EVE Valkyrie, will launch bundled with the Rift itself in 2016. https://twitter.com/oculus/status/674983291527671808 CCP Bosun joined...

Devilian formally launches today; here’s our coverage roundup

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One of the benefits of publishing games from across the Pacific is that a studio can get it to us quickly, and that's exactly...

Win a Blade & Soul ‘Master’ founder pack from NCsoft and Massively OP

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Blade & Soul begins its next-to-last beta test tomorrow, and if you're not in it, that could be because you haven't pre-ordered with a founder...

City of Titans is using government science to build its maps

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The upcoming superhero MMO City of Titans has ambitious plans to build up to 40 districts for the game. But how will it create...

Albion Online ‘Aurelius’ beta update embraces the season

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Just because a game is in beta doesn't mean that it can't bust out an event or two, right? Albion Online thinks so, anyway, and...
Whoa there, little mechy.

Project Genom is getting a full open world and rebuilt locations

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Wondering what's going on with Project Genom? You're not the only one, as the most recent development dispatch makes it clear that the team...
I don't feel as if saying that I'm specifically thirsty for blood is fair, exactly.

Crowfall explains the design of its skill trees

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How do you get better at things in Crowfall? Obviously, there's personal practice, but in the more abstract sense, there are the game's skill...

Elite: Dangerous expands its ‘Horizons’ next week

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Elite: Dangerous is about to get a lot bigger with the launch of Horizons next Tuesday. Frontier's David Braben announced the date on the...

Ghost in the Shell Online starts early access next week

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The future is coming to you a little sooner than expected. Ghost in the Shell Online, the shooter based on the cybernetic police squad...

Datamined files point to a SMITE PS4 version

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Hi-Rez looks like it might be preparing for further expansion into the console market with an upcoming PlayStation 4 port of its popular MOBA. One datamining site found files...

Pantheon introduces you to Wild’s End

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What do you do with a tract of land that's been perhaps irrevocably damaged and haunted due to a savage war many years previous?...
Three-point landing! Sort of.

Bless enters focus group testing until December 20th

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Bless was originally slated to release right around, well, now. Right this moment, as you're reading. No fooling! But the game had some issues...

Blade and Soul starts testing the Soul Fighter in Korea

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Blade and Soul's roster is ever-growing even as the title's western launch grows near. Steparu is reporting that the title is currently testing a...
Wow. Such test. Very open.

Tree of Savior kicks off open beta in Korea on December 17th

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Let's say you have a friend named Trab. You think that Trab would really like Tree of Savior, but he won't listen to you...

Cube World resumes active development

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When voxel sandbox Trove hit the pavement running, I know I wasn't alone when my first reaction was, "Damn, this looks like Cube World, only,...

Durango is pioneering a new mobile MMO genre

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Don't be too hasty in dismissing Durango as yet another pseudo-MMO mobile knockoff. The previous developers of Vindictus are dead serious about forging new...

Blizzard promises future Overwatch maps and characters will be free

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Blizzard's Overwatch team already has ideas for additional maps and characters that will come post-launch. What are they? Well, the studio isn't saying, but...