alpha testing

If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring. I started thinking a bit about this last week...

City of Titans had a rough 2018. The Kickstarted City of Heroes spiritual successor was meant to release its "issue 0" alpha by the...

Population Zero caught out attention at the tail end of last year when developer Enplex announced the survival MMO was hitting pre-alpha and opening...

Star Citizen's alpha has been plagued with stability issues in its latest build, and you might be tempted to think, duh, it's an alpha,...

Last week, Ship of Heroes boss Casey McGeever gave a quick status update on the forums. Heroic Games has been focused on super speed,...

Last week, in the comments of our podcast ranting on early access, reader TomTurtle brought up the fate of Cube World. The blocky, sandboxy MineCraft-like from Picroma...

Bad news first for fans of in-dev survival sandbox The Cycle. The game's sixth alpha test has been pushed back by two weeks, so it'll...

Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril addresses a point that I've been saying for years now: Many MMOs skew to information overload when it...

The state of play for Project Genom appears to be a tear-down and rebuild. After a long period of silence the game announced that it...

Cloud Imperium's Sean Tracy and Steve Bender headline this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, and if you didn't expect clowning, then...

A new round of test campaigns has started in the world of Crowfall, and this time around, the game has been updated with the...

Ahh, the humble inventory. It's a feature often taken for granted in MMOs; after all, you've gotta have somewhere to keep all of that...

You'd think that people might think twice about cheating in EVE Online, given that in 2018 alone, the company banned tens of thousands of...

In last week's dev livestream, the Torchlight Frontiers devs detailed some of the ways that they've been improving the game based on player feedback,...

Screw you, hackers in Atlas! You don't get to ruin this game for people, according to the developers! They're working to fight you, and......

It's been about a month since Torchlight Frontiers concluded its second alpha test, and the devs have been hard at work making changes based...

Even as a Crowfall backer, I've been occasionally confused about the game's test status, especially after it missed two of its original planned soft-launch...

Last week, Improbable and Unity stunned the gaming industry with their ugly spat over SpatialOS integration and licensing, as both companies issued statements about their...

Amazon Game Studios' New World is picking up steam as it continues to expand its alpha test this month. And whether or not the...

Fans of the upcoming Torchlight Frontiers should feel good knowing that both closed alpha testers and developers are pushing for the best game possible....