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]

Star Citizen publishes a starmap Q&A

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Cloud Imperium has published the first part of a Q&A session with the designers behind Star Citizen's starmap. Last weekend's CitizenCon saw the first...

H1Z1 adds female zombies and a bloody hospital

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H1Z1 has become an equal opportunity undead employer. The zombie sandbox patched in female zombies yesterday, expanding the variety of the walking dead that players...

Now you can breed baby dinos in ARK

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Studio Wildcard has pushed the first pass of breeding and baby dinosaurs into its live build of ARK: Survival Evolved. Players may pair off two members...

Overwatch’s beta starts on October 27

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Blizzard has announced that Overwatch's beta will begin on October 27th. The company is dividing testers into two groups: a closed beta crew and...

Star Citizen tops one million accounts, rewards its community

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There's no doubt that Star Citizen has a legion of followers, as RSI announced that it has reached its one millionth account (or "citizen"). "If...

Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Offline player characters

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Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...

Black Desert Online confirms early 2016 launch with buy-to-play model

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The race for 2016 is officially on. Daum Games confirmed this week that Black Desert Online will be coming out in North America and Europe in...

Divergence Online cracks Steam Greenlight’s top 10, starts work on combat

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It's been a very good week indeed for Divergence Online, as the upcoming sandbox MMO has shot into the top 10 list of Steam...

Buy a founder’s pack, get into this weekend’s Blade and Soul alpha

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If you're looking for a sure way to get into Blade and Soul's alpha test, then it won't hurt to hand NCsoft a little...

Stick and Rudder: The best bits of Star CitizenCon 2015

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Wow, so, where to start with this week's Stick and Rudder? I guess I picked the wrong time for a vacation, and shame on...
Keep it going, folks.

Das Tal opens up its first persistent test server on October 31st

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An MMORPG is going to put any set of network architecture under an incredible amount of strain. It's going to dropkick your netcode and...

Overwatch debuts on Twitch this week

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Curious about Overwatch? If so, you'll probably want to watch Blizzard's Twitch channel on Thursday, October 15th. The studio will air 90 minutes of...

The Stream Team: Aerial taming adventures in ARK: Survival Evolved

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A new bird is available in ARK: Survival Evolved, and MassivelOP's MJ means to tame one! With a buildable saddle, this Quetzalcoatlus can become...
Department of Recursion Department

Shroud of the Avatar goes recursive with Release 23

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Shroud of the Avatar is the most recent game that Richard Garriott has worked on, so why not spend your time in that game...

You can kill people with trees in Worlds Adrift

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Bossa Studios' new Worlds Adrift title already seemed rather ambitious. With a recent dev blog, though, the studio admitted to the lofty goal of...

Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns economy and legendary weapons

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ArenaNet has published two Guild Wars 2 dev blogs today: one on the economy and one on legendary weapons. ANet economist John Smith begins by...

Otherland teases Halloween event, reacts to player suggestions

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Even in the midst of its early access testing, Otherland is planning some sort of Halloween event later this month along with a large...
In the grim darkness of whatever, blah blah explosions.

Eternal Crusade’s alpha is meant as a dry run of the live experience

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Are you of the mind that Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade jumped into alpha a little bit too early? A new state of the game...

Asta plans public beta for November 3

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Will Asta succeed in the west after it failed in the east? That's the question that we're inching toward answering, as Webzen announced that...

You’ll never see Camelot Unchained’s Archer before she shoots you

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Interested in being a deadly threat at a distance? Then you should pay attention to Camelot Unchained's archer archetype, which comes in three class...