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]

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...

CSE is creating 30 classes for Camelot Unchained

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Camelot Unchained's current plans are to create a whopping 30 classes for the game, which means a heck of a lot of reveals over...
It mean this.

Now you can watch 7 minutes of pre-alpha Crowfall PvP

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How about some Crowfall PvP footage? No, it's not from one of ArtCraft's ubiquitous dev blogs, but rather from a YouTube user who captured nearly seven minutes...

Shroud of the Avatar’s release 22 ‘feels like a turning point’

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Shroud of the Avatar's Release 22 is scheduled for tomorrow, and whoa does it boast a lot of stuff. Producer Starr Long has penned...

Here are a few more gameplay vids from the Bless beta

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Steparu has published another look at this week's Bless Korean beta test. This time around, he tackles a flying tour and reveals that the...

The Stream Team: Peeking behind WildStar’s beta doors

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MassivelyOP's MJ was all set to sneak you behind WildStar's closed beta doors to give you a peek at what's going on for the...

WildStar: Reloaded beta now open to all

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There's no longer a bouncer at the doors of WildStar's free-to-play beta test, as Carbine has removed the need for a key to access...

You can tame pets in Bless, but they won’t fight for you

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Bless appears to have a pretty cool creature companion system, assuming that you enjoy catching most of a title's monsters and then domesticating them for...

The H1Z1 Invitational’s prize purse is $173,320

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Did you know that the total prize pool for the H1Z1 Invitational is $173,320? I didn't either, but then again, I didn't even know...

Crowfall heads back to development and preps for November pre-alpha test

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Once the current Milestone 1.0 test concludes at the end of this month, Crowfall will return to full development mode as ArtCraft prepares the...

Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Aging, offline leveling, and the business model

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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...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Understanding Guild Wars 2’s Mordrem Guard

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If you pay attention to the images I use throughout my Flameseeker Chronicles articles, you'll notice that one of my favourite characters to include...

Wild Terra invites the public to play for free this weekend

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The Wild Terra team would like to extend to you and several billion of your best friends the invitation to check out the game...

WildStar plans quality-of-life improvements, midnight relaunch

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WildStar's massive free-to-play transition and patch is less than a week away, which means that Carbine is getting to the end of its revelations. Today...

Divergence Online adds consensual PvP server stretch goal

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Yesterday, we published a detailed interview with Ethan Casner, one of the devs behind Star Wars Galaxies-inspired Divergence Online. The response was more or...

Star Citizen’s main theme is pretty great

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What will Star Citizen sound like? Underneath all the pew pews and the rumbling rocket engines, there's a score composed by Pedro Camacho that...

You can have a heat stroke in Black Desert’s desert

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Did you know that Black Desert features a heat stroke DoT? Apparently it does, as Steparu had to chug a few health potions while...

Divergence Online’s Ethan Casner on SWG 2.0, open PvP, and edgelords

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Star Wars Galaxies-inspired indie sandbox Divergence Online busted out its third alpha and third crowdfunding campaign last week, prompting many of Massively OP's readers...

Echo of Soul announces China closure too

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Any way you look at it, Echo of Soul is taking a beating lately. Following the announcement earlier this month that the game will be...

Sword Coast Legends delays its launch again

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Following a head start test this past weekend, Sword Coast Legends decided to move its PC and Mac launch date from September 29th to October 20th. Director...