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]

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...

The Repopulation brings back sieges and beefs up social features

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Sieges are back with a vengeance in The Repopulation. The upcoming sci-fi MMO is rolling out its 15.9.1 patch today, and with it the reintroduction...
Rumormongering

Here’s how Bless looks in its last beta test

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Steparu's still playing through Bless' final Korean beta test. He outlines the game's playable classes or jobs (Guardian, Berserker, Paladin, Ranger, Assassin, and Mage,...

Shroud of the Avatar will start new players in outer space

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Portalarium continues to flesh out Shroud of the Avatar, most recently with a new intro setting called the Island of Storms. This place is...

Guild Wars 2 teases the Ranger elite specialization

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It's not fun to be last. Someone has to be, sure, but if you're a Ranger in Guild Wars 2, not only do you...
Still unable to purchase a bra, though.

Blade & Soul shines a spotlight on the Blade Master

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You would think that a class by the name of Blade Master would be really important in Blade & Soul. It's half of the...
Yeah, I'm settled now.

Venus Rising is in beta, plans for launch later this year

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Venus Rising is open. No, not just in the sense that it allows you to do a whole lot to other characters, although that's...

Star Citizen is safe from the FTC so far, letter to backer suggests

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If you were worried that a certain Internet Warlord's crusade against Star Citizen might make it to the feds, you can breathe a little...

Camelot Unchained adds new team members and injury system

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It's been a big week for the folks over at Camelot Unchained, as Mark Jacobs announced that the game has added two new members...

Life Is Feudal tweaks networking, fixes bugs

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Life Is Feudal updated its Steam page with info about its latest patch yesterday. The 0.7.6.2 update features some networking optimization, which the devs...

The Stream Team: ARK has rafts!

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In a game called ARK, you'd think that some kind of sea-faring vessel would be involved. However, it wasn't until the recent patch that...
Finally, the trifecta is complete.

Betawatch: September 18th, 2015

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After a lengthy testing period, World of Warships has finally left port. That means that Wargaming.net has finally succeeded in getting all of the...

You can test fly Star Citizen’s Avenger for the next week

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If you're a Star Citizen backer but you haven't purchased a pre-order package with access to the Aegis Dynamics Avenger, Cloud Imperium is letting...