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Betawatch: Aloft drifts to 2025-ish skies
If you'd been looking forward to playing Aloft this year during its previously announced fall early access, we're sorry to inform you that this...
Massively Overthinking: Are we over early access MMOs and the ‘early access trap’ yet?
A few weeks back, Shadow's Kiss, a Kickstarted vampire MMORPG that probably most of our readers never even knew about, threw in the towel,...
Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42
The news that Star Citizen studio CIG forced developers to give up two weekends in order to make CitizenCon happen - followed by a...
Star Citizen outlines its panels and presentations for this weekend’s CitizenCon event
The devotees and skeptics of Star Citizen will likely have their eyes firmly fixed on CIG this weekend, as the studio's 2024 edition of...
Jagex’s RuneScape survival spin-off resurfaces asking for closed alpha testers
It's been a couple years since Jagex first announced that it was working on a survival game spin-off set in the RuneScape universe, but...
Here are some of the MMORPG, MMO, and multiplayer demos waiting in this week’s Steam Next Fest
It's one of the biggest weeks in PC gaming, when disk drives shudder in fear and digital vendors offer up their wares, previews, and...
Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif talks Alpha 2 features, the MMO’s design, and ‘the bite of failure’ in PvX
With just over a week before Ashes of Creation kicks off its Alpha 2 playtest, creative director Steven Sharif has held an interview with...
EverCraft Online dresses up for Halloween for its next weekend alpha October 18
For the past little while we've kept an eye on EverCraft Online, a boxy voxel-based MMORPG that seeks to bring the genre back to...
NetEase officially announces mobile FPS Destiny Rising, with closed alpha starting November 1
Last month insider reports from Bungie confirmed the existence of Destiny: Rising, a NetEase-developed mobile prequel of the multiplayer looter shooter where players control...
Betawatch: Brighter Shores is really launching in November after one last beta
You should get your whites whiter and your shores brighter when Brighter Shores goes into testing in late October ahead of a full release...
Legacy: Steel and Sorcery is an multiplayer co-op ARPG made by ex-WoW devs
If you, like us, make a hobby of following the various projects that former World of Warcraft devs are creating, then you might be...
My Time at Evershine devs: Get our Kickstarter to $2.5M and we’ll leap past early access
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...
Star Citizen shows off new character creation choices and successfully crams dozens of players into a tram
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...
Stars Reach’s skill tree system seeks to let players ‘gain experience by being useful’
The dev blogs from Stars Reach that highlight game features continue to roll forth, and the latest one touches on a topic that is...
Betawatch: Star Citizen crunching like it’s 2010
Remember last week how I mentioned that I couldn't muster much in the way of anger toward Throne & Liberty having its whole paid...
Star Citizen recaps its server meshing efforts and outlines future testing plans
It would be easy to assume that the server meshing technology being attempted by Star Citizen has just been spinning its wheels, but evidently...
Ashes of Creation shares a primer of October 25’s Alpha Two and previews the starting city of Lionhold
Ashes of Creation is very clearly excited for the arrival of Alpha Two on Friday, October 25th, as Intrepid Studios began shoveling coal into...
Betawatch: Throne & Liberty is liberated from beta into launch
We are now truly liberated from talking about the Throne & Liberty beta because the game has launched. You might want to point out...
Eternal Tombs ramps up interest for its October pre-alpha test
After a few weeks off, Eternal Tombs' pre-alpha testing is preparing for another run in mid-October. The hardcore MMO with specialized GM-activated events announced...
‘Infinite sandbox MMO’ DreamWorld introduces AI-powered tools as it readies for an October 10 playtest
Do you remember DreamWorld? It came to our attention back in 2021 when its inexperienced developers laid out huge promises as part of its...
