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: Let there be Landmark keys!

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While seven-day trial keys for Landmark's closed beta are great for trying the game, what about folks who want to get in and play...

Tree of Savior preps for larger closed beta

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Tree of Savior's English beta is about to get even more intense, with a larger test being readied to launch sometime in October. The second...
More exciting than the video.

Watch harvesting and crafting on an industrial scale in Divergence Online

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Sometimes you don't really need to say a lot more, you know? There is a video here. It's 14 minutes of crafting and gathering...

Camelot Unchained’s newsletter looks at the state of the build and more

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Camelot Unchained's 14th newsletter has been sighted in the wild. It says that there will be a beta-focused livestream on Friday, October 2nd, followed...

Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Character aging in MMORPGs

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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...

Crowfall sums up its Hunger Dome test, even though it’s not over yet

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Crowfall's Hunger Dome 1.0 PvP playtest is nearing its end. As such, ArtCraft has published a recap video reflecting what the firm has learned...

Black Desert’s Russian beta starts October 12

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Can you read Russian? Me neither, but I can read Reddit as well as the big date on the top of Black Desert's Russian...
doge, wow

Project Gorgon on the difference between testing and launch balancing

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Can we get a quick show of hands indicating who likes logging into a familiar MMO and finding out that every one of his...
Boss of the road.

Here’s a look at the Ranger in Bless’ beta

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The final Korean beta test for Bless is officially over, and Steparu has published his final look at the game. He takes the Ranger...

The Stream Team: Diving into Devilian

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Do you want to see what Devilian's alpha is like? You're in luck: MassivelyOP's MJ is heading in to check out this new fantasy...

Ever, Jane holds off on its beta launch

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The austere Ever, Jane updated to Release 1.9 over this past weekend while keeping the title in alpha testing for a while longer. "We...
Sure you are, home slice.

Star Citizen studio ‘grows’ dev team, claims layoffs are ‘streamlin[ing]’

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It's never exactly calming to hear that a large project is laying people off before release, and that's the rumor swirling around Cloud Imperium...
MOOOOOOOOON

Guild Wars 2 details the Druid, raiding, and final expansion test weekend

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Guild Wars 2 players will be able to get their collective hands on Heart of Thorns very soon, and that's a good thing. The...

Here’s what happened with Star Citizen’s FPS module this week

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Cloud Imperium published its weekly look at Star Citizen's Star Marine FPS module progress earlier this weekend. Most of the week was spent fixing...

Camelot Unchained boss talks classes, new hires, and more

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Camelot Unchained's end-of-the-week update was published earlier this weekend. Head honcho Mark Jacobs revisited the big class presentation reveal, and explained that the RvR...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: September 26, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Divergence Online continued to raise eyebrows. First, head honcho Ethan "Lord of Edge" Casner spoke with MOP regarding...

Albion upgrades its private islands, talks map-making

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Albion Online released a couple of dev updates this week. The first focused on private islands, and more specifically, how you can upgrade the...
Too bad, sword sad.

Betawatch: September 25th, 2015

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I really hope your plans for the immediate future didn't include playing the full retail release for Sword Coast Legends, because the game's launch...

Black Desert teases the awakening weapon system

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Weapon choice, or lack thereof, is one MMO topic that doesn't seem to come up very much. Some games allow players to select from...

Funcom’s The Park shows off a trio of creepy screenshots

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Funcom released a trio of new screenshots today for The Park, the upcoming Secret World single-player spin-off that's slated for release next month. The...