alpha testing
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,...
Inside Star Citizen runs down new vehicles, prettier skies, dev tools, and functional coffee machines
Star Citizen's last episode of its weekly video series for this quarter is online, and if you were worried that the game was going...
Pantheon talks up new crafting and gathering systems, April pre-alpha, and gameplay footage plans
Pantheon's March newsletter has arrived, and with it updates on the game's slow but steady push through pre-alpha.
"We continue to see solid progress on...
Star Citizen ramps up its timetable to release 3.18 patches in order to deliver alpha 3.19 on schedule
Even though alpha 3.18 has been a slow burning disaster for Star Citizen between its initial deployment and now, CIG is still looking to...
Foxhole studio announces Anvil Empires, a persistent war sandbox MMO with thousand-person battles
If you thought Foxhole is a great MMO - as we sure do - and were wishing its devs would expand their skills to...
Star Citizen aims to have alpha 3.18.1 released to the Persistent Universe this week
We're back once again with another temperature check of Star Citizen's alpha 3.18, an update that has put the spaceship sandbox in a state...
Palia continues to have no release date but thanks players for their support in a brief video
MMO fans who have been looking wistfully in the direction of Palia for word of the game opening its cozy universe to players are...
Star Citizen continues working on an error code as alpha 3.18.1 arrives to PTU for weekend testing
Yes, the problems for Star Citizen alpha 3.18 are still continuing on, though once again the game's status update page has additional hopeful news...
Betawatch: Diablo IV opens up for everyone to test its server queue
Yay, Diablo IV has an open beta where you can test your ability to wait in a server queue to play the game! But...
Star Citizen talks up the future of tractor beams while fixes for alpha 3.18 continue to inch along
Star Citizen would very much like it if people could focus on what's next for a bit as the Inside Star Citizen videos continue...
Massively Overthinking: The times MMO developers admitted they were… wrong
Earlier in March, Jagex did the unthinkable for an MMORPG company: It admitted it was wrong about something. If you're used to the Blizzards...
BitCraft dates its next pre-alpha for March 31, promising to add ‘several thousand’ new testers
The pre-alpha testing progress of BitCraft is pushing forward, with the developers noting in last month's address that "several thousand" players would be considered...
Star Citizen focuses on deploying alpha 3.18.1 patch as a fix for the game’s ongoing issues
As the players and devs of Star Citizen continue to wrestle with the game's ongoing alpha 3.18 issues, new word on progress is being...
One More Game’s multiplayer tactical game Spellcraft opens up its Steam alpha April 6
Back in 2020, we covered the formation of a new fully remote company, One More Game, with a bunch of relevant names from MMOs...
Star Citizen discusses in-development engineer role as patch problems continue
The engineer role that was highlighted in a Road to 4.0 video is once again the talk of Star Citizen in this week's developer...
Betawatch: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.18 has been quite a trainwreck
So Star Citizen launched patch 3.18 last weekend, and everything worked absolutely perfectly with no downsides, please don't check. But it's all right because...
Star Citizen offers a statement about 3.18 downtime before discussing 3.19 mission updates
Star Citizen is continuing its planned rollout of video digests like clockwork, which means that there's a new Inside Star Citizen video that looks...
Palia’s team has doubled in less than two years as 600K players sign up to test it
Cozy MMO Palia is tooting its very cozy horn over its huge sign-up rate and the doubling of its team since its announcement in...
Star Citizen’s partial outage continues, but CIG notes new infrastructure is ‘trending in the right direction’
The troubles for Star Citizen that were first brought on by alpha 3.18's release last weekend continue on through this week, as the game...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 413: Kentucky fried gaming
Justin and Bree discuss Bellatores, Final Fantasy XIV, Ghostcrawler and the Riot MMO, WoW's patches, Diablo IV's promos, and Star Citizen, with adventures in LOTRO, Star Trek Online, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on humble characters and healer aesthetics.
