alpha testing
The Daily Grind: Are you angry about the collapse of Chronicles of Elyria?
Last week, Soulbound Studios announced that in spite of just reaching a semblance of pre-alpha for Chronicles of Elyria, it was out of money...
Ashes of Creation shows off an hour’s worth of gameplay from alpha one
Earlier this week, Intrepid Studios had promised to deliver some gameplay from the alpha one build of Ashes of Creation, and deliver it did,...
Betawatch: Shadow Arena announces its final beta in April
Is there any arena more shadow-filled than Shadow Arena? It might need to change its name if there were, but you can evaluate for...
Check out Rogue Company, Hi-Rez’s upcoming cross-platform team shooter
Rogue Company: It's definitely not Rogue Squadron on a Bad Company binge. It's Hi-Rez Studios' next big thing under the First Watch Games label:...
Star Citizen shows off a new weapon attachments UI and tours New Babbage
Inside Star Citizen is back once again with another look at features for alpha 3.9, this time providing a fly-through tour of the New...
Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle
To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
Vague Patch Notes: Ambition is not delivery in MMOs
So Chronicles of Elyria is dead in the water. Or... wait, that's not actually accurate; let me start again. Chronicles of Elyria has admitted...
Ashes of Creation announces an early preview livestream of alpha one
Intrepid Studios is ready to show the world what it's got. On Friday, March 27th, at 2:00 p.m. EST, Ashes of Creation will be...
Torchlight III shows off the Sharpshooter class in new alpha video
Multiplayer not-an-MMO-anymore Torchlight III has a new dev blog and video out today on the Sharpshooter, its very last new class before launch. MMO...
Kickstarted MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria halts development, lays off all employees
Since its splashy and successful Kickstarter run back in 2016 that raised $1.36 million from MMO gamers, Chronicles of Elyria developed a reputation for...
Saga of Lucimia shows off over two hours of stage three alpha gameplay
If you've got time to kill (and most of us do) and are following the progress of Saga of Lucimia, then the developers have...
Open world MMO Life Beyond details its new AI behavior system
If your ambition is to make a world feel alive, you've got to take some time to make the AI of the things populating...
Chronicles of Elyria releases a playable pre-alpha obstacle course
Chronicles of Elyria has a lot of aspirations, like creating a persistent world where everyone plays a role in an epic, ongoing storyline. Up...
Betawatch: Phantasy Star Online 2’s open beta arrived
The world feels really strange right now, and Phantasy Star Online 2 is in open beta in North America right now. Are those two...
Fractured’s next round of alpha testing adds social features, new abilities, and stealth gameplay
In what's likely a happy surprise for backers of the sandbox MMORPG Fractured, the next round of alpha testing is going to introduce a...
Star Citizen shows off a new contextual UI element, new weapons, and more of its prison
Even though the novel coronavirus has caused most of the folks at CIG to work from home, the Star Citizen devs are still kicking...
Torchlight III shuts a yappy cat’s mouth
Not every patch is going to be a content delivery system from the gods; sometimes you have to make do with a custodian patch...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Avorion, Naïca, Pocket Mortys, Mighty Party, Neopets, Uncharted Waters Online, and Wolf Team
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of -- or have totally forgotten about until now! We'll...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands gets another encrypted alpha build
If you're one of the World of Warcraft players eagerly awaiting more news about Shadowlands, you may be a bit nonplussed that the latest...
Camelot Unchained’s latest mini-update is all about incoming testing and Devout classes
There's still work being done on Camelot Unchained right now, and it's the sort of work that requires some devotion. See, one of the...
