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]

The Stream Team: Procuring penguins in ARK: Survival Evolved

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When could MassivelyOP's MJ pass up taming a cute creature in ARK? Since never! That's why she's heading out to gather herself a waddle...
Blessed not be.

Betawatch: Indefinite delays hit Bless Online (November 13th, 2015)

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There is basically no situation wherein an indefinite delay is a good thing for a game. Bless Online is getting hit with one at...

Camelot Unchained unveils its support classes [Updated]

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Camelot Unchained's latest class reveal should please fans of bards and support. The three archetypes are the Skald, the Minstrel, and the Dark Fool....

The Stream Team: Get your EverQuest and EverQuest II beta keys!

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Have you wanted to get into EverQuest and/or EverQuest II's expansion betas but haven't preordered the necessary expansion to do so? Then today is...

The latest Elite newsletter features a pretty cool Imperial Cutter

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Frontier has released the 99th newsletter for Elite: Dangerous, which coincides with initial availability of the 1.5 ship update beta. There's also a slick new video...

Penguins and angler fish board ARK as tribal warfare begins

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ARK: Survival Evolved has gone to the birds -- and the fish -- in the latest update. On top of a feathers and fur...
Damn right they have feathers.

Nexon’s mobile dinosaur survival game Durango is coming westward

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How much space do you have in your heart for more games based on surviving amidst dinosaurs? Nexon's Durango is a mobile game centered...
Yeah, that's the opposite of what you think it is.

Gloria Victis releases a new gameplay trailer for your viewing pleasure

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9So you know someone who would probably really like Gloria Victis as a game. Let's call him Trab. You can't convince Trab to try...

Camelot Unchained’s merchandise proceeds go directly to development

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Camelot Unchained has partnered with Merchline to produce an assortment of t-shirts, hoodies, posters, and the like, all of them related to the crowdfunded...

Eco’s alpha starts on November 23

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Eco will open itself up to alpha tier backers on November 23rd. So says the latest Strange Loop dev blog, while also mentioning the...
I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world grows cold and dim.

Crowfall shares a little lore behind the First Crow

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Who is the First Crow? He is a figure of some notoriety in Crowfall. He is eternal. He is unchanging. He is nothing. He...

Lost Ark will be out of the public’s eye at G-Star

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Fans hoping for personal views and hands-on time with the upcoming action-RPG Lost Ark at G-Star are in for a world of disappointment. While the...

Watch Tree of Savior’s G-Star trailer

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It seems as though Tree of Savior is really gathering positive word of mouth as of late, with beta testers gushing about the incoming Nexon title....

Durango brings a dino MMO to mobile devices

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With the popularity of ARK: Survival Evolved, there's no doubt that the mix of multiplayer survival and dinosaurs is a smash hit with gamers....

Sphere 3: Enchanted World is a fantasy MMO that’s now in open beta

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Just when I thought I'd been doing this long enough to know about every MMO in existence, along comes Sphere 3: Enchanted World to...

Bless has been delayed ‘indefinitely’

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Korean fantasy MMO export Bless Online has been delayed "indefinitely," according to MMO Culture. The site sources developer Neowiz Bless Studio, which it says...

Wild Terra adds housing decay, teases upcoming features

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If you build it, you better keep it in tip-top shape. That's the underlying message of Wild Terra's newest patch, which adds housing decay...

Pantheon has a playable core build

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's first newsletter is up, and in it Brad McQuaid has given an update on the team, its finances, and its...

Black Desert confirms regional IP blocking

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Bad news for those hoping that Daum Games would see the light and keep Black Desert's borders open to all nations: The publisher will...
Lineage Eternal: Seeper of Rolls.

Lineage Eternal and Peria Chronicles are skipping G-Star

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Steparu reports that a couple of big-name titles with MMO ties are no-shows at this week's G-Star 2015 gaming megacon in Korea. NCsoft will...