alpha testing
Betawatch: Throne & Liberty preps for open beta on July 18
After significant delays, Throne & Liberty is heading into open beta on July 18th, and there's a whole rundown of how players can take...
Legend of Ares, a PvP MMO from the mid-2000s, will relaunch next month
Legend of Ares probably isn't an MMORPG that any of you remember. It was a PvP-centric MMO from the mid-2000s that failed to gain...
Star Citizen showcases alpha 3.24’s Blockade Runner event and delayed cargo freight gameplay
Star Citizen looks to be spooling up its hype drives for the sci-fi sandbox's next alpha build, starting off with this week's Inside Star...
Corepunk coming to early access on November 26th, still requires ‘significant polishing in all directions’
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen isn't the only MMO that surprised us this week with an early access release announcement. After years of troubled...
Raph Koster lays out the (first) four pillars of design for his sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach
I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is that Raph Koster's Stars Reach is probably a good long while away...
Crowdfunded MMORPG Pantheon Rise of the Fallen is launching early access in December
Who had this one on the ol' 2024 bingo card? Pantheon is gunning for an ambitious early access launch in December - yes, that...
Star Citizen readies a returning community helping event, preps cargo updates and new event for alpha 3.24
Star Citizen is always looking toward a future of things to do and that throughline continues in the game's usual weekly update post, which...
Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Project Ghost is still years out, but plans public playtest for ‘fairly soon’
Fantastic Pixel Castle announced that Project Ghost recently crossed its second prototype milestone, with the first happening back in April, and the studio is...
Corepunk wraps up its 50,000 player alpha 3 test: ‘Better than the last one’
The third major alpha for Corepunk is officially history, as Artificial Core wrapped up the test and thanked players for their help in identifying...
Cutesy multiplayer life sim Galactic Getaway heralds a successful alpha, promises 2024 release
Last year we first reported on Galactic Getaway, a cute Animal Crossing-style sci-fi life sim RPG that lets up to 60 players customize a...
Betawatch: Palia’s new owner, The Quinfall’s closed beta
There's been a lot of hay to make when it comes to Palia over the past few months, but I don't think anyone really...
The Stream Team: Checking in on the alpha test of MMORPG Corepunk
Last time MOP's Chris tried to livestream the alpha build of Corepunk, the game went down for maintenance, forcing him to change course. Ideally,...
Star Citizen makes efforts on NPC AI, vehicle destruction, missions, and server meshing
We're back once again with another Star Citizen monthly report, and it looks as if efforts by CIG for the month of June have...
Ashes of Creation is ‘close’ to Alpha 2, shows off server meshing tech
If there are two things that we know for certain about Ashes of Creation's second alpha test, it's that (1) Intrepid Studios really loves...
Here’s how the ‘cellular automata simulation’ in Raph Koster’s new sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach works
In the wake of the announcement of Stars Reach, Playable Worlds' Raph Koster has been making the rounds of Reddit and the gaming blogosphere...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft in the 1990s
MMORPGs don't pop out of nowhere, ex nihilo, to suddenly be enjoyed by players across the globe. Good ones take several years, dozens of...
Star Citizen raked in higher profits over the month of June and the second quarter
One might suspect that the month of May would have been a big one for Star Citizen's piggy bank owing to the Invictus event...
Chinese Star Citizen fan attempts to sound an alarm over a resolved Bar Citizen ticket price fiasco
Followers of Star Citizen are likely very familiar with the Bar Citizen community meet-ups that run every year. These free player-run events allow fans...
BitCraft adds $20 supporter pack guaranteeing access to all future playtesting
We're just a week away from BitCraft's second alpha, and developer Clockwork Labs has updated the account hub in preparation for the event. Specifically,...
Corepunk’s third alpha test arrives this week with a fully voiced pilot episode
A third round of alpha testing for the genre blended Corepunk kicks off this week, starting on Monday July 1st and running through Sunday,...
