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]

MapleStory Worlds makes its soft launch as it tries to entice creators with monetary incentive programs

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Korean fans of MapleStory have already had their hands on Nexon's MapleStory Worlds since April, but now it's time for players in the Americas...

Star Citizen outlines its panels and presentations for this weekend’s CitizenCon event

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The devotees and skeptics of Star Citizen will likely have their eyes firmly fixed on CIG this weekend, as the studio's 2024 edition of...

Wayfinder previews The Crucible zone and teases its eighth hero ahead of October 21 launch

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When Wayfinder officially launches out of the last remnants of early access on October 21st, it's getting a huge run of new content, with...

Jagex’s RuneScape survival spin-off resurfaces asking for closed alpha testers

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It's been a couple years since Jagex first announced that it was working on a survival game spin-off set in the RuneScape universe, but...

WoW Classic deploys a new test build for the Firelands raid until October 18

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Readers likely recall that WoW Classic's PTR testing for the Firelands raid began at the beginning of September, and that testing has once more...

Valheim brings the Bog Witch update to its public test server

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"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, this test build is not indicative of a final product." We're admittedly taking some artistic liberties with the classic...

Here are some of the MMORPG, MMO, and multiplayer demos waiting in this week’s Steam Next Fest

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It's one of the biggest weeks in PC gaming, when disk drives shudder in fear and digital vendors offer up their wares, previews, and...

Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif talks Alpha 2 features, the MMO’s design, and ‘the bite of failure’ in PvX

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With just over a week before Ashes of Creation kicks off its Alpha 2 playtest, creative director Steven Sharif has held an interview with...

Haven and Hearth will have its next world reset and Steam early access release November 1

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Just in case you haven't followed along with Haven and Hearth's whole deal, the crafting-centered MMO has some regular world resets in order to...

Erenshor invites you into its totally spooky demo

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It's Steam Next Fest week, and if your eyes aren't bigger than your WASD, you're still shopping around for different titles to try out....

Everbloom is a cozy co-op farming sim where players grow popcorn and raise chocolate milk cows

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Where does chocolate milk come from? Well if you're living in the world of whimsy that is the upcoming co-op farming sim Everbloom, it...

EverCraft Online dresses up for Halloween for its next weekend alpha October 18

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For the past little while we've kept an eye on EverCraft Online, a boxy voxel-based MMORPG that seeks to bring the genre back to...

NetEase officially announces mobile FPS Destiny Rising, with closed alpha starting November 1

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Last month insider reports from Bungie confirmed the existence of Destiny: Rising, a NetEase-developed mobile prequel of the multiplayer looter shooter where players control...

Not So Massively: Songs of Silence is a stylish blend of multiplayer 4X and auto-battler

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Considering I don't even do that it often, you'd be surprised how often I find interesting games just by scrolling through Steam's home page....

Viking colony survivalbox ASKA adds town militias and seasonal crops with the Farmers and Fighters update

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Are you a farmer or a fighter? Well luckily in the Viking-themed multiplayer colony management survivalbox ASKA you can be both, especially considering the...

Brighter Shores shares load testing and new screenshots as it marches towards early access

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If you're hearing the loud clanging of hammers and the rattling torquing of wrenches, that's just Brighter Shores doing a bit of tuning up...

Dune Awakening answers questions about PvP, console release plans, and a melee combat revamp

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Dune: Awakening has put forth another monthly newsletter - its second one since the initiative started in August even if this one leaped over...

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen maps out its path to early access, now targeting the winter holiday season

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is once more calling attention to its early access release for December of this year - a fact that...

Dieselpunk PvPvE vehicular battler Sand offers up a PvP demo and seven minutes of raw gameplay footage

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Back in May we shared our first look at Sand, an in-development PvPvE sandbox primarily centered around Tramplers - massive robotic structures that act...
This is what I always wanted.

Betawatch: Brighter Shores is really launching in November after one last beta

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You should get your whites whiter and your shores brighter when Brighter Shores goes into testing in late October ahead of a full release...