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]

Stormhaven Studios forms to work on sandbox Saga of Lucimia

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Group-oriented sandbox Saga of Lucimia has taken a significant step to legitimacy this past weekend by announcing that it is now under the umbrella...
There are wolves out here.

Tree of Savior kicks off English testing on August 4th

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Attention, hopeful Tree of Savior fans who have been scanning the horizon, desperately pining for a boat to arrive bearing word about the game's...
Don't do, well, all of the things you're encouraged to do by this game's mechanics.

Revival outlines mechanics for religion and temples

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The developers behind Revival don't want your only path to conquest to be something as simple as warfare. You can also subtly influence a...
I am fairly certain that fairness due to gear parity was a point that got tossed around for this game, although I cannot find a good source for that at the moment, so I may be incorrect.

Albion Online brings its summer test to a close with a war

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Bad news for Albion Online fans who have been enjoying this summer test phase: It ends tonight. The bright side is that if you're...

Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on mass market MMOs, Smed’s resignation

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's Brad McQuaid has a word or two (thousand) to say about the ongoing debate as to what constitutes an...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: July 25, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon returned to Kickstarter. Veteran developer Eric Heimburg clearly believes in his fantasy sandpark, and why not? Gorgon...

Ambitious Project Gorgon is back on Kickstarter

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Third time's the charm for Project Gorgon's Kickstarter, right? We hope so, as the ambitious indie fantasy sandpark is asking for a modest $20,000...
lol

Betawatch: July 24th, 2015

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John Smedley is no longer with us, by which I mean that he is still entirely alive and has not left us in the...

Shroud of the Avatar on troll fights and more

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter was published this weekend, and Portalarium uses it to talk further about the fantasy sandbox's obsidian architecture. As...

Star Citizen adds new flyable ships, highlights audio upgrades, and more

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Star Citizen added the Merlin and the Scythe to its dogfighting module today, courtest of the 1.1.5 patch. The dev team also upped the...

Camelot Unchained’s Jacobs offers progress report, praise for his dev team

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Camelot Unchained's traditional Friday update has been published, and CityState's Mark Jacobs has a lot to talk about on the heels of the recent...
Let's war ov

Crowfall posts an art fly-through, discusses money and stretch goals

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Crowfall has been sporting a pretty distinctive art style from the word go, which is to its credit. The past few big updates on...
Borderland, feel like I'm going to lose my mand

Borderlands Online preps for another closed beta test

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's time for your daily installment of Things You're Never Going To Have! Probably not, anyway. Borderlands Online...
Bears.

H1Z1 targets bear AI, goes on sale for $8

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As impossible as it might have seemed, H1Z1's next patch is going to be improving bear AI to make the ursine contingent of the...

Guild Wars 2 confirms the Elementalist’s Tempest elite spec

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ArenaNet has confirmed the rumored next elite spec for Guild Wars 2's upcoming Heart of Thorns expansion: The Elementalist's Tempest. The Tempest will access the...
You might even call it diabolical! If you wanted to get sued, which we do not.

Devilian spotlights the Shadowhunter and the Talisman mechanic

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You wouldn't think that hunting shadows would be a very lucrative profession, since all it takes to catch them is a light source and...
Dude knows his thing.

Crowfall shows off the first pass of the Legionnaire’s abilities

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Ask about the Legionnaire in Crowfall and most people listening are going to look at you in confusion because everyone just thinks of the Legionnaire...

ArcheAge’s China launch moved to August 6

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If you think you waited a long while for ArcheAge as a western fan, imagine how the title's Chinese followers must feel. Tencent Games has delayed...
So, yes, boat.

World of Warships highlights the in-game functionality of signal flags

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In the real world, ships started making use of signal flags as a method of communication because it's easier to fly a flag than...

Roberts calls b.s. on Star Citizen’s feature creep police

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Chris Roberts hasn't really responded to all of the internet angst surrounding sci-fi virtual world Star Citizen. He's kinda been busy with, you know,...