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]

Turkish sandbox MMO Quinfall delays closed beta to January 2024

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We've been keeping an eye on The Quinfall - the self-described "biggest MMORPG universe in the world" - since its debut earlier this year,...

Palia has launched European servers, and yes, you still play cross-region

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Open beta social sandbox MMO Palia officially takes up residence on the Epic Games Store today, but there's bigger news for playability is the...

Fractured relaunches early access on Steam November 8 as team works unpaid

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If you've been tinkering around in Fractured Online's renewed playtests this fall, you likely saw this announcement coming: Last night Dynamight Studios told players...

Anime hero shooter Second Wave shares gameplay footage and thoughts from its first beta

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Over the past couple of months we've been reporting on Second Wave, a hero shooter/MOBA hybrid dressed up in anime style from developer Challengers...

Warhaven releases its new Bard character and begins the Halloween Soulsdance Festival

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Last week saw the team-based PvP medieval fantasy brawler Warhaven bring the rock as it started its first pre-season featuring the arrival of the...

Star Citizen’s second day of CitizenCon shows updates to character creation, FPS gameplay, flight, and frontier locations

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With day two of CitizenCon now closed, everything that's currently in the works for Star Citizen has been shared by CIG, and we're here...

ARK Survival Ascended still has no release date, but it will have a photo mode

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Who needs a solid calendar date for your dinosaur survival sandbox when you can instead have a confirmed photo mode? That's part of the...

Star Citizen shows off new ships and offers vague details of ship release timing

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When CitizenCon has a panel called Talking Ship, you can pretty much guess what's going to be on the table. The various vehicles in...

Star Citizen demonstrates new visual effects, destructible items, server updates, and engineering gameplay

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The opening presentation of CitizenCon has recently wrapped up, offering up a wide assortment of tech-focused updates and at least one gameplay feature that...

Star Citizen’s new test server will open Pyro to goodies pack owners and ‘active testers’ on October 31

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When Star Citizen dropped its alpha 3.21 build this past Friday, one of the features that were touted was a "preview channel" - aka...
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Betawatch: Pantheon’s extraction spinoff, 247, is really happening

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Hey there, Pantheon, you... you doing okay there, buddy? What's that? You're suddenly pivoting to having a totally new game on the side that's...

Ilysia thanks players for their support as it rolls over early access bugs in latest patches

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Last week saw the VR MMORPG Ilysia make its early access launch following a bumpy series of tests and delays, which naturally means a...

The Stream Team: The hunt for Halloween coins and spooky activities in Tower Unite

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The season of Halloween has landed in the multiplayer game world Tower Unite with coins to collect, seasonal goodies to spend those coins on,...

Star Citizen’s alpha 3.21 brings new missions and a new bomber ahead of CitizenCon this weekend

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Fans and followers of Star Citizen were likely already clearing their weekend calendars for the developing sandbox's CitizenCon event, but now they've got another...

Pax Dei demos its extensive character creator in new video as players await alpha date

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Mainframe Industries isn't telling us when Pax Dei's alpha is coming, but it is talking about something today: YOUR FACE. OK, really it's your character's...

Tarisland is overhauling everything from dungeon difficulty to class roles ahead of November CBT

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Tencent's Tarisland has another dev post on the official site today with an update on how the team is revising PvE ahead of the...

Lord of the Rings survival crafter Return to Moria delays PS5 launch

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The day of a great return to one of Middle-earth's most iconic locations is almost here -- but not for everyone. The Lord of...

Players died over 100,000 times in Throne & Liberty’s September technical test

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Following Throne & Liberty's technical test earlier this fall, NCsoft and Amazon have been a bit mum about the MMO, which has been pushed...

Monsters & Memories hires four new devs and improves game performance

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After a couple months of quiet, indie MMO Monsters & Memories has emerged to deliver an update regarding its progress. Niche Worlds Cult reports...

Genfanad dates closed beta testing of its card game combat revamp for October 20

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Over the past couple of weeks, we've been chronicling Genfanad's decision to revamp its combat model into a card game-based system known as the...