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]

Corepunk opens its doors for its second alpha test today

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It's time for 10,000 lucky invitees to hop into the latest alpha test build of Corepunk today, as the second alpha for the MMOARPG...
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Current Wayfinder owners can beta test the big Echoes revamp right now

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Yesterday afternoon saw Wayfinder developer Airship Syndicate hold a special livestream (on Twitter of all places) to talk up its upcoming Echoes update. That...
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Betawatch: Dune Awakening is sanding out closed beta invites

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Who here likes sand? If you like sand, this is your week for Betawatch because first and foremost there are reports that Dune Awakening...

Scars of Honor shares development work on character models, graphics, UI, and its game world

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Beast Burst Entertainment is resolved to keep players up-to-date on its work on the throwback WoW-like MMORPG Scars of Honor, which means that it's...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen provides an in-progress look at the upcoming Summoner class

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Unless you're the sort of person who follows the goings-on of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen creative director Chris "Joppa" Perkins or you didn't...

The Stream Team: Taking a look at the closed beta of multiplayer title 33 Immortals

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Today is the day when another new multiplayer title enters our sphere, and MOP's Chris is going to be there to try it out!...

Nightingale recaps its new character creation additions – including its starter loadouts and ‘extravagant’ digs

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If you know one thing about Nightingale's patch week, it's that it finally introduced an offline mode after much player clamor. But that wasn't...

‘No more punching trees and building shacks,’ says multiplayer survivalbox Echoes of Elysium

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Loric Games' Echoes of Elysium has released another dev blog - quite a bit earlier than expected, as you might recall head of production...

Star Citizen debuts the new Ironclad heavy hauler and shares an update on the Polaris capital ship

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The Invictus free-fly event continues to be the focus for Star Citizen, particularly as it's being used as a platform to debut all-new and...

Shroud of the Avatar execs expand on Slayscape, a procedurally generated battle royale RPG

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Last March we reported on the discovery of Pangaea, a development studio formed by existing execs of Shroud of the Avatar's Catnip Games --...

Palia’s new teaser video hints at housing upgrades and Black Market hotpot

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Earlier this week, Palia studio Singularity 6 teased what's coming in the next patch, but we didn't have full details, and we didn't have...

Nearly 6500 people tried out sandbox MMORPG BitCraft’s last alpha – the next is coming in June

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Following its closed alpha earlier this spring, Clockwork Labs has a new producer letter up how sandbox BitCraft is faring - and where it's...

Town-management survivalbox ASKA releases new vid ahead of demo and early access

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We're less than a month away from the early access launch of ASKA, a fresh multiplayer survival game with a Viking theme and a...

Dune Awakening reportedly begins sending out closed beta invites

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While Dune: Awakening appears to have failed to strike the hot iron of the recent movie's popularity, it is making something akin to forward...

Tarisland talks up its ‘misc PvE gameplay’ content in latest video

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Many of the previews coming out of Tarisland recently have often pointed to the MMORPG's raiding as the pinnacle (and arguably primary) activity. However,...

Nightingale’s offline mode and QOL-laden 0.3 update are now live

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If you were waiting for Nightingale's offline mode to go live before jumping into the early access survivalbox, today is your day, as the...

Palia is prepping an economy patch to smooth out gold generation and skills

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With two major rounds of layoffs and a severely shrunken team - not to mention the fiasco with its beta status - Palia has...

Solarpunk showcases an overhauled merchant platform in its latest development update

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"We wasted a lot of time but Minecraft inspired us." That's the throughline of a recent update blog and the literal title of a...

Age of Water receives middling player reviews as it addresses problems with mob spawns, rewards, and more

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In an ideal world, an early access game evolves and improves over the course of its time in what is essentially beta testing that...

33 Immortals preps weekend closed beta for the ‘distillation of the MMO raid experience’

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Thunder Lotus' MMO-inspired multiplayer raiding roguelike 33 Immortals is barreling onward toward its May 24th closed beta, with more info now being dispatched to...