alpha testing
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s first monthly pre-alpha test runs for 24 hours on January 28
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen pledged that it would be running pre-alpha tests every month starting in 2023, and it is holding fast to...
Waven continues hotfixes and improvements in its closed alpha with delayed English notes
Salut, mes copains! Comment ca va aujourd'hui? We really hope that sentence made sense to you, otherwise trying to figure out what's been changed...
The Game Archaeologist: PlaneShift, the poster child of open-source MMOs
As the character creation screen fades out, a dark vista fades into being. The fledgling adventurer looks around at dim shapes and sinister movements...
Star Citizen heralds 2022 as a year of growth, touches on 3.18’s features and update plans for 2023
At the close of 2022, CIG's Chris Roberts put out another chairman's letter that looks back at Star Citizen's last year and ahead to...
Betawatch: Book of Travels disambiguates content and features
Have you tried to find the difference between content and features in Book of Travels? According to a new dispatch from the team on...
Ashes of Creation wraps up a ‘crazy year of growth’ with a bigger team and new offices
Capping off what it deemed a "crazy year of growth," Ashes of Creation's dev team wrapped up 2022 with a reflective video hosted in...
The MOP Up: Spellcraft reflects upon growth and development in 2022
The Spellcraft team, made up of former ArenaNet and En Masse devs, paused their work on the upcoming real-time tactics game to reflect on...
Betawatch: Waven’s alpha testing is active and rolling
So, how are things going with Waven's testing? Well, the good news is that the team is sharing regular patches and updates with fans....
Time-travel MMO Into the Echo plans to resume pre-alpha testing in 2023
When last we checked in on time-traveling-themed MMORPG Into the Echo, it was mired in testing delays and communication lapses, but now Etlok Studios'...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen celebrates a ‘milestone month’ thanks to monthly pre-alphas and influencer livestream
The producer of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is looking back at December with fondness in the game's latest newsletter, which he calls...
Star Citizen’s Jumptown 2.0 holds a final round of events for the holidays ahead of its late January update
Care to spend the holiday season fighting other players in an illicit drug lab in space? Then you're set for Star Citizen's final hurrah...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2022
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's column keeping track of all the crowdfunding MMOs in our genre. Last year, the...
Betawatch: Evercore Heroes delays its beta testing
Evercore Heroes is like a competitive PvE MOBA. No, really. Player-controlled teams take on enemies in a race to see which team can clear...
Star Citizen recounts updates made in 2022 and summarizes features of alpha 3.18
It's just about that time of the year when folks recount 2022, and CIG has done just that in its latest video digest, which...
Star Citizen outlines 3.18’s upcoming ship balancing changes, quality-of-life features, and Jumptown tweaks
While alpha 3.18 of Star Citizen has some bigger ticket items planned like more spaceship racetracks and a refactoring of cargo, there are a...
ROSE Online makes its early access return today after 17 years of absence
It would be easy to have forgotten about ROSE Online, a Korean MMO from Gravity Interactive, though it has had a pretty bumpy history....
Betawatch: Fractured Online adds in primal forms for Wildfolk
Is it completely a coincidence that after a new Transformers film trailer for Rise of the Beasts, Fractured Online has added a beast mode...
Star Citizen kicks off another Luminalia holiday event and discusses Pyro sound design
The holiday season is arriving to Star Citizen as this year's Luminalia event is back once more. bringing a few in-game and out-of-game goodies...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen pledges monthly pre-alpha tests in 2023
The testing cadence for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is about to pick up pace, as the studio announced that it's going to be...
Victorian gaslamp multiplayer PvE sandbox Nightingale teases travel in new Game Awards trailer
We've had an eye on Inflexion Games' multiplayer survival sandbox Nightingale since its debut last year - in fact, it was meant to hit...