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]

Palia’s spring-themed update adds new friendship quests, decor, seeds, and ammo pouches today

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Palia's first beta update since its confusing Steam launch and the layoff of more than a third of its team is here today, complete...

Bellwright brings its brutal medieval world of multiplayer survival to Steam early access

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Will the second verse be different different from the first for developer Donkey Crew -- and more importantly for those who buy in to...
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Nightingale’s 0.2 update goes live this afternoon with new weapons and crafting QOL

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It's patch day for Nightingale: Tencent-owned Inflexion's early access multiplayer survivalbox is rolling into Update 0.2 at noon EDT today following maintenance. While full patch...

Palworld CEO addresses Tencent-backed ‘clone game’ Auroria and similar Chinese mobile titles

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Pocket Pair CEO Takuro Mizobe is seeing what having the shoe on the other foot feels like, as he has apparently taken notice of...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen talks pre-alpha Season 3’s new region and future testing content plans

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With Season 2 of pre-alpha for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen winding forward to its final weeks, the devs at Visionary Realms are now...

Valheim brings the Ashlands update to its public test server, confirms the game’s nearly full release

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After three years in early access and over a year since the update was first announced, the Viking costumed survival sandbox Valheim is finally...

Dune Awakening explains why ‘spice is power’ for this upcoming survival MMO

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Even those most tangentially aware of the Dune franchise are aware that everyone in that setting is pretty crazy about spice. This resource fuels...

Star Citizen says alpha 3.23’s personal hangars would have made the game ‘literally unplayable’

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This past weekend, we reported on the news that Star Citizen had to delay the addition of personal hangars and other related gameplay elements...
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Nightingale confirms crafting and quality-of-life improvements with next patch

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While Victorian-era survivalbox Nightingale has mostly been focused on fixing things and adjusting features, the devs at Inflexion Games appear to be ready to...
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Whatever happened to Wildcard’s pirate-themed sandbox MMO Atlas?

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It might be by design that we've collectively forgotten about Atlas, the piratical survival sandbox MMO by Wildcard substudio Grapeshot Games that was at...

Space exploration sandbox Starship Simulator successfully funds at over $497K

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Getting to command, tinker, fix, explore, decorate, and control your own detailed virtual spaceship looks even more promising with the recent news that FleetYard...
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Tarisland opens a dedicated pre-registration website with milestones and quests

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Do you wish to pre-order Tarisland on the Windows? No, we're not making a joke or a typo, that's what the official dedicated pre-registration...
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Betawatch: World of Warcraft heads for another expansion test cycle with The War Within

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Like Oscar Isaac folding his arms and lowering his head with an exasperated sigh, we must report to you that somehow, World of Warcraft...

Past Fate projects early access launch sometime in the third or fourth quarter of this year

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Currently, the sandbox MMORPG Past Fate is in a closed alpha state (except for when it deigns to run open alpha tests). It would...

Fallout 76 begins the first phase of public testing for its Skyline Valley update

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What does a nuclear apocalypse do to a place like Shenandoah National Park? Fallout 76 players are now able to find out -- at...

Star Citizen pushes back alpha 3.23’s new hangars and cargo missions, adds in water physics instead

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For the past several weeks, Star Citizen has been talking up the features of its upcoming alpha 3.23, often calling it one of the...

World of Warcraft shares the patch notes for its first phase of The War Within alpha testing

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The time has come for those who signed up or bought in to test the next expansion of World of Warcraft: The self-described "public...

Ghost dev Brian Holinka broadly discusses the MMO’s combat model

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The name of Brian Holinka will very likely be familiar to MMORPG fans, primarily for his work as lead combat designer for World of...

V Rising demos its new Dracula-themed endgame zone, Ruins of Mortium

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Vampire survival sandbox V Rising continues its efforts to drum up hype as it seems certain to lap Valheim when it fully releases on...

Post-layoffs, Palia is celebrating its alpha anniversary with a new buyable bundle

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We've all been figuratively holding our breaths to see what would happen with Palia after the last month of mess, and now the game...

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