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]

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In the midst of studio upheaval, Wayfinder is planning a patch and Q&A this week

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Last week, we got the upsetting news that Tencent-owned Digital Extremes was in the middle of what turned out to be its second round...

Project Gorgon, buffered by player donations, has been spared from maintenance mode – for now

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The fate of quirky indie MMORPG Project Gorgon has hung in the balance over the last few days following the news that the soft-launched...

Hardcore MMO Eternal Tombs shows how its team will trigger dynamic events for you

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If you can get past the hardcore attitude of the upcoming Eternal Tombs (and hey, maybe that's a desirable quality for you!), you may...

Perfect World’s Perfect New World has launched its ‘equilibrious’ beta test today

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In case you're not already overloaded with betas right about now, here comes one more in the form of Perfect New World. No, it's...

Jeffrey Butler’s metaverse MMO Avalon reveals trailer and AI-driven player content tools

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This past March we reported on the existence of Avalon, a blockchain-linked metaverse MMO from Avalon Corp, a company that has former SOE and...

Funcom is plotting a Dune Awakening early closed beta test – here’s how to sign up

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With Funcom dropping more dev blogs about its Dune Awakening MMO, you had to figure that it was building to something, and in fact,...

Kickstarted MMORPG Pantheon cancels 247 extraction mode: ‘We have damaged your trust’

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen's brief community nightmare is over: Visionary Realms announced this morning that it's putting the brakes on development of the...

Kickstarted VR MMO Ilysia releases an early access trailer as bug-hunting continues

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Early access for VR MMO Ilysia continues to rumble forth with its promised weekly patches, which means it's our duty to try and keep...

Aika Online takes first steps toward global re-release with open beta test

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This past August saw the MMORPG genre receive a blast from the past we're not sure it was expecting, as 2009's Aika Online announced...

PvP MMO Abyss plans ‘semi-closed’ alpha testing in November and December

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Abyss, the PvP sandbox MMORPG originally revealed as the "satire" NFT MMO Metagates and then pivoted to promise no blockchain integration or crypto, is...

Fractured Online’s return to early access sees bug fixing, a small server rollback, and mixed player reaction

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It's time to once more take the temperature of an MMORPG's launch and today we're asking Fractured Online to open its mouth, say "ahh,"...

Tarisland unveils Phantom Necromancer class, engages pre-downloads for November 15 beta

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Remember when we supposed that the new class for Tarisland was a druid? Well, not exactly, unless of course you subscribe to the D&D...

Order of the Elements is a new old-school MMO hoping to launch on Steam in 2025

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Howasabout another upcoming MMO to watch on Steam? Order of the Elements is stepping up to be just that MMO. Developer TigerRoll has the...

Myth of Empires officially returns to Steam after a two-year legal drama

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It's been a long, strange, and litigious journey for Myth of Empires -- but its biggest woes may be behind it now. The MMO...

Mortal Online 2 continues to test out its Unreal Engine 5 upgrade with a third PTR November 13

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The Unreal Engine 5 upgrade for Mortal Online 2 hasn't been quite the improvement that Star Vault first hyped it to be, at least...

‘We’re out of money’: Project Gorgon moves to part-time development to keep its server lights on

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An announcement from the three-person dev team behind Project: Gorgon pulls no punches, as Elder Game admits to players in no uncertain terms that...
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Betawatch: The Wagadu Chronicles heads to early access on December 4

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It's happening, folks: The Wagadu Chronicles is heading into early access on December 4th, just like the headline says. That means you'll get your...

V Rising hints at new enemies and a new endgame activity arriving in its next content patch

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Stunlock Studios is once again using its latest dev blog to vaguely hint at what's coming next for V Rising, which means we're going...

Pax Dei announces ‘Home Valley’ alpha for next week, focusing on player housing

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During its stream this afternoon, Mainframe Industries announced that it's kicking off the "first large-scale" alpha for sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei. It's set to...

The Stream Team: Taking a return trip through Book of Travels

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It's been quite some time since MOP's Chris made his first personal foray into the tiny multiplayer online world of Book of Travels. Now...