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Dungeon crawler Dark and Darker goes to ‘Plan Z’ by releasing its playtest via torrent
The incredibly odd and unfortunate saga of multiplayer dungeon crawler Dark and Darker continues to vie for weirdest story of 2023. After getting the...
Betawatch: Wayfinder catches the delay bug
If you felt like Wayfinder was really just cruising along and fast-tracking its way to beta, well... we have a bit of bad news...
Kickstarted open-world MMO Past Fate posts new early access video
We've had an eyeball on skill-based open-world MMORPG Past Fate since at least 2019, when it first made it into one of our MMOs...
BitCraft’s next pre-alpha will test the game’s new backend infrastructure
We've had an eye on BitCraft, a procedural-gen MMORPG sandbox, since it first surfaced in 2019 as Clockwork Labs' well-funded new toy. In spite...
Kickstarted Fractured Veil delays early access to September after engine upgrade
Just about two years ago, we first learned about a new survival MMO called Fractured Veil. It pulled in $110,000 on Kickstarter to fund...
Anvil Empires solicits serious testers for upcoming technical pre-alpha tests
MMO players were treated to a delightful surprise at the end of March, when Foxhole developer Siege Camp took the wraps off its next...
Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.1, prepares for a free fly event, and recounts March’s dev progress
After nearly a full month since its initial 3.18 launch, Star Citizen is considering itself fully operational once again with the launch of alpha...
Star Citizen continues to promise alpha 3.18.1 fixes ‘shortly’ while more testing tools are developed
The alpha 3.18 release of Star Citizen continues to look like a gamedev engineering nightmare as the partial outage state of the persistent universe...
Ashes of Creation talks Alpha 2 development, zones, and content production
Ashes of Creation is once again sitting creative director Steven Sharif in front of a comfy den and making him do a livestream. This...
Betawatch: Galaxies of Eden abandons MMO for AI generation
So Galaxies of Eden's devs had a bit of a surprising drop this week when they decided that instead of building a nice big...
Noia Online is a browser-based 2-D sandbox MMO available in open alpha
"Hi. My name is Dean. I'm making an MMO because I believe I can." That's literally the straightforward pitch from a dev vlog...
Interview: Spellcraft’s game director on the first public alpha and its intense gameplay
A good weekend is in store for anyone who loves to play the latest, hottest, fresh-off-the-press-est multiplayer games the moment they pop up. That's...
‘Real-time battler’ Spellcraft enters alpha today – here’s how to get in
As promised, One More Game officially kicks off the alpha test for Spellcraft on Steam today. Spellcraft was originally unveiled a year ago, though...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Frozen Flame launches survival mode ‘open beta’ today
It's a release day of sorts for survival MMO Frozen Flame, as it launches its survival mode into what it's calling "open beta," though...
Afrofantasy MMO Wagadu Chronicles says its next alpha test will be NDA-free
Expect to hear -- and see -- a lot more about The Wagadu Chronicles this month thanks to a decision by studio Twin Drums...
Star Citizen’s forums and launcher are crashing once more as the multiweek PU partial outage stretches on
It's time yet again for another status checkup for Star Citizen; we've been at this for the past several weeks now as the game's...
Galaxies of Eden devs cancel plans for social sandbox MMO to develop dubious AI-generated playground
So remember how Galaxies of Eden had delayed its pre-alpha testing because of technical roadblocks and bugs? Well, we've finally heard from the studio...
Star Citizen offers multiple previews of in-development AI behavior updates in livestream
This past weekend's developer livestream from Star Citizen probably makes up for the weirdness being shoveled out by CIG last week, particularly as it...
Ashes of Creation shows off story arc systems and a spooky tower, claims Alpha 2 is ‘not years away’
We're just entering the month of April, which means that Ashes of Creation has put forth yet another monthly development livestream for March to...
Betawatch: Blue Protocol runs a network test in Japan
And there we go: Another round of network testing has begun in Japan for Blue Protocol. Bandai Namco promised it would happen in March,...
