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: 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...
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Guild Wars 2’s staff Warrior opens a new avenue for frontline support

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In case it isn't obvious by now, ArenaNet is clearly planning to drop a new video and dev blog for every single new weapon/class...

Ship of Heroes revamps targeting brackets and tab-targeting ahead of next test

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Heroic Games is continuing to forge ahead with its development of Ship of Heroes following the game's most recent demo test at SteamFest. Its...

Star Citizen’s Intergalactic Aerospace Expo free-to-play event returns November 17

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It's part free-to-play event, part internet spaceship sales drive, and all a big hullabaloo: It's the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo, and it's coming back again...

Tarisland’s Shadow Swordsman is the flexible poisoner who takes no prisoners

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Today is a momentous day for fans of Tarisland, as the upcoming fantasy MMO announced its Earthspirit Saga, a three-expansion storyline that kicks off...

Monsters & Memories schedules a short stress test for this Saturday

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Do you have weekend plans in your dull, mundane, chore-filled life? How about you ditch all of those and go adventuring in fantastic new...

Wayfinder suffers layoffs as Digital Extremes transfers the game fully to Airship Syndicate

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Wayfinder hasn't even properly launched out of early access and it's already suffering layoffs. According to Polygon's unnamed sources, Tencent-owned Digital Extremes laid off...

Wayfinder will ‘fast-track’ its plans to address experience progression complaints

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Airship Syndicate is back with another Wayfinder dev blog for fans, and while it's still basking in the warm glow of its "biggest update...

Tarisland previews the Battle of Ancash raid and reintroduces the Warrior class ahead of November 15 closed beta

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We're just under a week away from the next closed beta test of Tarisland, and that means that Tencent is spooling up the hype...

Greg Street’s Fantastic Pixel Castle hints at the possibilities of its ‘Ghost’ MMO in hour-long Q&A

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Will Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street's new Fantastic Pixel Castle be able to bring the goods when it comes to developing an MMORPG? Ever since the...

‘We never intended to create a hardcore game’: Corepunk devs recap playtest

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Corepunk already shared some initial player feedback from its second playtest - "challenging and punishing" was used a fair bit - but now developer...

Guild Wars 2 previews mace Rangers ahead of November 28 weapon proliferation beta

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We're just one day in to Guild Wars 2's Through the Veil, and ArenaNet is already charging forward along its planned roadmap, specifically with...

Funcom’s Dune Awakening sound design is inspired by the Villeneuve movies

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No, Dune ain't done - but Funcom is letting you have a little listen. The Dune Awakening developers dropped a new dev blog this morning...

Palia’s present patch provides popular personalization and plot perks

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Is it time to come back to Palia and give it another try? If your hang-up was a lack of character customization options, this...

ArcheAge 2 confirms another delay and a focus from large-scale factional PvP to small group PvE and guild PvP

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It appears that servers aren't the only things constricting in ArcheAge: The game's sequel is also going to be shrinking its general focus, as...

Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured Online relaunches early access on Steam today

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We say this with nothing but kindness in our hearts: The return of Fractured Online is not something most people would've bet on at...

Lost Skies’ latest dev blog features guns, ship pieces, angry mantas, and squishy materials

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The 15th developer blog out of Lost Skies can once again be best summarized as a buffet of assets. Feast your eyes on guns....

Corepunk shares player feedback from its playtest: ‘Challenging and punishing’

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Overshadowed by a pretty busy news weekend was the fact that genre hybrid MMO Corepunk ran its second weekend playtest with a little over...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen claims ‘solid forward momentum’ thanks to art change and 247 extraction mode

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It looks as if Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is in "show don't tell" mode for its much-maligned 247 extraction test mode, as Visionary...
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The Wagadu Chronicles confirms a Steam early access launch date of December 4

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Afrofantasy sandbox MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles has been talking up plans for early access this year, from opening its Steam page to showing off...