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]

Legacy: Steel and Sorcery is an multiplayer co-op ARPG made by ex-WoW devs

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If you, like us, make a hobby of following the various projects that former World of Warcraft devs are creating, then you might be...

Pax Dei outlines adjustments to its landscape, enemies, and PvE progression in its next patch

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Earlier this week Pax Dei confirmed that its next major update will be changing the game's world in a rather literal sense with an...

Star Wars The Old Republic readies public testing of its next lair boss and dynamic events system soon

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Star Wars: The Old Republic game director Eric Musco has some fresh details about the game's incoming Game Update 7.6: Galactic Threads patch -...

New World’s latest Aeternum trailer splices cutscenes into gameplay to sell the experience

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Does anyone remember back in 2021 when Amazon's media saturation for the launch of New World was insane? I sure do! I can't say...

Albion Online is offering big gold raffles for players who test Horizons this morning

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If you're curious about Albion Online's upcoming Horizons update and want to take a peek ahead of time, today is your day, as Sandbox...

ArcheAge Chronicles video highlights its acrobatic combat and vast persistent online world

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A couple of weeks ago XLGames and Kakao Games showed off a rebranded and revised ArcheAge 2, with the name of ArcheAge Chronicles and...

Medieval MMO Anvil Empires introduces cargo ships to cross the ocean blue

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When medieval sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires greatly expanded its in-development world map into several landmasses this past August, it created a new problem for...

Colony sandbox MMO SEED is in ‘pre-release,’ plans October 24 test run

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The abrupt and bizarre death of colony sandbox and "society simulator" SEED in 2022 was only topped by its abrupt resurrection and return of...

EVE Online reveals Revenant expansion, EVE Frontier wraps up fourth test, EVE Vanguard plans ‘biggest update yet’

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Who's ready for a big announcement from EVE Online? CCP Games revealed EVE's next expansion, Revenant, this afternoon. It's set to launch November 12th. "It...

Landing Party is a new mobile alternate reality RPG from an old-school Turbine founder

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Old salts of MMORPGs are likely familiar with the name of Johnny Monsarrat. He effectively had a hand in creating the genre with Asheron's...

Stars Reach’s world reshaping tool test rewarded curious players with ‘spectacular’ death

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Stars Reach is continuing to push onward with playtesting that almost no one is in, but at least we get to hear about it...

Here’s the timeline for New World Aeternum preloading and launch by region and platform

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We're now less than a week away from the launch of New World's Aeternum expansion and the welcoming of console players to the mix....

My Time at Evershine devs: Get our Kickstarter to $2.5M and we’ll leap past early access

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We weren't particularly surprised to see My Time at Evershine, the multiplayer follow-up to Pathea Games' My Time at Portia and My Time at...

Brighter Shores confirms November launch date following October 22 closed beta

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Back in August, we learned that Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG en route from Jagex and RuneScape co-founder Andrew Gower, was targeting November 5th...

Battle royale shooter Supervive plunges into this month’s Steam Next Fest with a feature-rich demo

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How many video game genres can you cram into a single title before it becomes a stew? Supervive is pushing that limit with elements...

Pax Dei weaves a lore-focused audio story of the creation of its world

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Did you know that Pax Dei has lore? It's true! While our Choose My Adventure columnist learned only a story of highly bloodthirsty foxes,...

Valheim will introduce a new cooking and farming skill with its bog witch swamp biome update

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"The Spill" may sound like your favorite MMO's requisite sewer zone, but today we're talking tea, as it's the name of Coffee Stain's and...

Star Citizen shows off new character creation choices and successfully crams dozens of players into a tram

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As one might expect, Star Citizen is heads-down focusing on the arrival of CitizenCon (and stealing developers' weekends to do it), which basically means...

Project Friendship, Spry Fox’s new cozy MMO, just opened tester signups

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Way back in 2021, we first caught wind that indie developer Spry Fox was hiring for a new "non-violent" MMO, essentially a cozy game....

Here’s how New World’s PvP scene is improving with Aeternum next week

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If New World's PvP layout was any kind of draw for or bar to your enjoyment of the game, you're going to want to...