alpha testing
Kickstarted VR MMORPG Ilysia will finally enter beta in April after extensive codebase rewrite
It's been a hot minute since we checked in on Ilysia, the VR MMORPG that was Kickstarted to the tune of $159,000 back in...
Star Citizen apologizes for its messy alpha 3.18 launch as the game progresses to a partial outage state
We've been tracking the SNAFU that has been Star Citizen's alpha 3.18 launch over the past few days, so naturally we're going to continue...
Afrofantasy MMO The Wagadu Chronicles runs Alpha 3 test this week, with sign-ups still open
It's a testing week for The Wagadu Chronicles, one of the more distinctive MMOs in development. The Alpha 3 test kicked off today with...
Star Citizen remains offline as issues related to alpha 3.18 escalate the problem to a ‘major outage’
We're following up on the catastrophic launch of Star Citizen alpha 3.18, which arrived this past weekend with a litany of problems for players...
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.18 craters its initial launch, causing players to riot across the internet
Alpha 3.18 was meant to be Star Citizen's "biggest update yet," but what appears to have happened is a spectacularly buggy launch instead, causing...
Star Citizen enters alpha 3.18 with more persistence, a new graphics renderer, and more ships and locations
Last night saw Star Citizen make what it's calling the game's biggest update yet. Alpha 3.18 has now gone live, introducing some under-the-hood tech...
Betawatch: Wayfinder offers little peeks behind the NDA
What is Wayfinder? Where is Wayfinder? Why is Wayfinder? These questions... mostly do not make sense. But there are some answers to perhaps less...
Star Citizen shares initial details of alpha 4.0’s engineer multi-crew role in latest video
This week saw yet another Star Citizen video digest come out, but this time it was another installment in the Road to 4.0 video...
Interview: The Wayfinder team on group size, customization, monetization, and more
Perhaps you're interested in Wayfinder because you like the idea of a small-group dungeon-running game published by Digital Extremes. (The studio made another game...
Kickstarted MMO Past Fate previews the first 30 minute of its alpha gameplay experience
Did you happen to miss out on the earlier open alpha weekend of Past Fate? Maybe you forgot or you got busy or some...
Frozen Flame previews its upcoming survival mode with cataclysmic events
With a closed alpha test starting tomorrow, early access MMO Frozen Flame is bound to be drawing some attention this season. While it has...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen schedules March pre-alpha test, posts new screenshots
The next round of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's pre-alpha testing is coming next week, Visionary Realms announced. The studio said that it's prepping servers...
Star Citizen previews upcoming underground locations, visual effects
The underground sprawls planned for Star Citizen, which readers will recall was one of the features highlighted at last year's CitizenCon, is back under...
Betawatch: Blue Protocol projects tests and releases its benchmark
Blue Protocol has released its benchmark and character creator! This is not a drill, people. If you are unsure of what to do, well,...
Chronicles of Elyria boss justifies website rebuilding, communication, and re-opening the Discord
Last month, Soulbound Studios' Jeromy Walsh wrote another long-form address discussing the merging of design documents for Kingdoms of Elyria and its erstwhile (i.e.,...
Early access MMO Frozen Flame preps March closed alpha to test PvP and survival mode
Should an early access game hold a closed alpha? It's probably too late by the time you've paid for it, right? Well, maybe Dreamside...
Meet Pax Dei, a well-funded open-world social sandbox built to ‘true MMO scale’
Back in 2021, we caught wind of a new Microsoft-backed MMO called Pax Dei from studio Mainframe Industries, which had been busy raising huge...
Profane offers a look at new structures, a territory owning altar, and dev roadmap updates
Insane Studio has heralded Profane as an MMO about domination, territory holding, and PvP, but many of the previews out of the game have...
Betawatch: Throne & Liberty gets the Amazon publishing treatment
He's a pair of concentric rings covered in eyes. She's the personification of the idea of freedom carrying a torch or a spear while...
In development MMORPG BitCraft counts 752,000 pre-alpha test applicants
BitCraft is one of the multiple new games from new startup studios with long pedigrees (and huge bankrolls) that we've caught wind of in...
