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]

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World of Warships closed beta signups start Thursday

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World of Warships' closed beta applications go live on Thursday, March 12th. A new Wargaming press release says that North American apps open at 2:00...

Camelot Unchained busts out a new stretch goal

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Camelot Unchained reached the $3,225,000 "Hug the World" stretch goal in its ongoing crowdfunding campaign last night, meaning that City State Entertainment will hire or...

Albion Online’s summer alpha to bring crafting, economy, and combat changes

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Albion Online's winter alpha event is over, but the dev team is utilizing the information gleaned from it to prepare for the next one...

Crowfall will allow offline skill training

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Sampling from the best of both worlds, Crowfall will allow both offline passive and online active skill training for characters. In a dev update posted...

HEX is finally getting dungeon PvE

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When Cryptozoic's MMOTCG HEX went to Kickstarter almost two years ago, it promised that it would combine its TCG sensibilities with "the amazing community and storytelling aspects of...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: March 7, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, a couple of projects went bye-bye. First up was Trials of Ascension, which admitted to Kickstarter defeat and...
It's like three games for the price of... well, actually, it's two games now.

Star Citizen’s arena commander 1.1 is coming soon

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Star Citizen's monthly report is live, and chairman Chris Roberts says that even though February was short, Cloud Imperium accomplished quite a bit. "As you...

PAX East 2015: Heroes of the Storm plans tuition tourney, reveals Sylvanas champion

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How does earning your college tuition by playing video games sound? Blizzard hopes it sounds mighty fine, as the studio is running a special...

Betawatch: March 6, 2015

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After a brief delay, Camelot Unchained's alpha went live this week; City State Entertainment even threw in a builder tool to sweeten the pot....

PAX East 2015: Overwatch aims for fall beta, introduces two new characters

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Blizzard is breaking out the big guns for Overwatch -- in more than one sense of that term. The studio announced at PAX East...
Black Desert

Here’s what a Black Desert raid boss looks like

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If you've got a spare 20 minutes and an urge to see a Black Desert raid boss go down, Steparu's got a new video...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns beta is on the way

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Are you revved up for Guild Wars 2's upcoming Heart of Thorns expansion? How about revved up enough to test it? If that sounds...
Starting again.

Daybreak posts new Landmark blueprint

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Daybreak has published an outline for Landmark development over the next few weeks. The next update, likely dropping somewhere between March 18th and 25th,...

Valiance Online seeks developers

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Want a job? Silver Helm Studios has posted a notice today declaring that it's looking for remote developers on its City of Heroes-influenced indie superhero MMORPG...

Revival dev: ‘It is like literally being on a live TV show’

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The creators of Star Citizen's FPS module, Illfonic, are also hard at work on their horror MMO Revival. A new interview with Creative Director...
Das Tal

Das Tal tweaks player collision, minimap, and more

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It's time for another Das Tal dev blog, and this one touches on everything from audio to art to world-building tasks to the UI. The...

Otherland begins closed beta 2 test today

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Hear ye, hear ye: The second closed beta test for Otherland has commenced! The Otherland CBT 2.0 will feature an expanded version of the game,...

Undead Labs’ Moonrise is coming to Steam

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The colorful creature battler Moonrise is heading to Steam as part of its 2015 rollout. Undead Labs announced that it has secured a place for...

Trials of Ascension cancels second Kickstarter campaign

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What crowdfunding giveth, crowdfunding also withholdeth. This is the hard lesson that Trials of Ascension has had to learn, not once, but twice. Less than...

Crowfall will be powered by Unity 5

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The newly released Unity 5 cross-platform game engine will be responsible for driving at least one upcoming title: Crowfall. The team said that it's been...