alpha testing
Chronicles of Elyria just dropped a new mood and gameplay video
Chronicles of Elyria has a new preview up for watchers of the Kickstarted, in-development MMO. Last last night, Soulbound Studios posted up its latest...
Kickstarted cyberpunk MMO Zenith’s pre-alpha is now slated for March 21
Last fall, Zenith came out of nowhere to raise over a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter. Its tiny team - the three-person...
Another World of Warcraft: Shadowlands encrypted alpha build is out now
When is the start of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands testing? Well, on a small scale it seems to have already happened, since the latest encrypted...
Ashes of Creation discusses alpha 1, shows off monsters and houses
Ashes of Creation appears to be ramping up things and nearing a point of its first alpha. The most recent developer update livestream has...
Betawatch: Temtem plans for this year and the next
You can be glib and accuse Temtem of basically being a slight variant of Pokémon, but you cannot accuse the developers of lacking ambition. Not only...
Dual Universe shares the tech being used to optimize performance going forward
In a sandbox game with procedural generation and voxel building, there's a lot of moving parts that can very likely bog a player's PC...
Torchlight III’s latest Mainline patch improves combat feel and adds skill tier bonuses for Dusk Mage
The tweaks that Torchlight III was looking to make in a previous news post have started to make their first inroads to the alpha...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands continues its march of encrypted alpha builds
In the abstract sense, it's really not unheard of that we as of yet don't know more about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It's not all that...
New World may consider bringing back gankbox elements, talks up its uniqueness
Amazon Game Studios did an interview with IGN this week about New World that's part puzzler, part eyebrow-raiser, part declaration of war.
First, remember how...
EVE Online shares its economic report for January 2020 and hands out skill points for DDoS issues
For the more industrious EVE Online player, there's no greater moment than the monthly economic report. Well, it's that wonderful time of the month...
Torchlight III discusses adjustments being made to combat, skill progression, and harvesting
With Torchlight III firmly in its current phase of alpha, the folks at Echtra Games are keen to address some of the major points...
Ship of Heroes grants a look a new Martial Arts melee powerset in a video
It takes a special kind of superhero to go into a fight against the forces superheroes face with nothing but your fists and feet,...
Betawatch: Crowfall hands out rewards, guides people in necromancy, and covers race disciplines
Darn it, Crowfall, could you be bothered to have a unifying theme this week? Look, it's good that you're giving out monthly rewards to backers,...
Interview: Population Zero devs on the May Steam launch, buy-to-play, and PvP philosophy
Survival MMORPG Population Zero is officially launching on Steam in early May, Enplex Games announced today. As part of the reveal, the studio's also...
Past Fate starts its open alpha on February 24 following Kickstarter cancelation
At long last, Past Fate is entering its open alpha testing on February 24th. "How is this possible?" you ask, before clarifying that the...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has an encrypted alpha build out now
Blizzard would probably like it if people stopped talking about how the latest World of Warcraft patch is not very good, or how Warcraft III: Reforged...
The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about the launch of Amazon’s New World?
Not quite a year ago, when Amazon took New World out of alpha and back to the drawing board, I posed almost this exact...
Leaderboard: Are you still interested in Amazon’s New World, knowing it won’t be reverting to a FFA PvP MMO?
There's been a big ol' ruckus about New World across Reddit the last day or two, ever since the closed alpha resumed. You know...
CCP confirms the death of Project Nova, will keep future games quiet until closer to ready
Yesterday, as part of our coverage of Pearl Abyss' Q4 2019 financial report, we broke the sad news that CCP Games' Project Nova had...
Wild Terra 2: New Lands will hit closed alpha this week for high-end backers
Last fall, Juvty Worlds announced that it had run into the "ceiling of technology" with Wild Terra and was pointing its four-person dev team...
