beta testing
Betawatch: Pantheon 247
How much would you pay to test an MMORPG? OK, but how much would you pay to test an extraction mode spun out from...
Lost Skies shows a snippet of gameplay while it gets ready to send out more beta keys
Grapple with this: The latest development update from Lost Skies is out, with Bossa Studios announcing that it's getting ready to send out another...
Skull and Bones has been delayed for at least the seventh time
Stop me if you've heard this one: Skull and Bones has been delayed again! At the top of the year, the company queued up...
Ship of Heroes refurbs its camera, addresses feedback, and floats another demo event
Following up on what it characterizes as a "highly successful beta demo" during Steam Next Fest, Heroic Games has a new dev blog and...
NCsoft’s battle royale brawler Battle Crush enters open beta on PC and Android until October 30
Back in March, we received word of NCsoft's latest game Battle Crush, a self-described "action battle brawler" that otherwise plays out like any battle...
Tarisland’s Ranger looks like the comfiest hunter class fantasy
Considering how popular Hunters were -- and are -- in World of Warcraft, we'd say it stands to reason that Tarisland's Ranger will receive...
Nexon’s shooter THE FINALS enters cross-platform open beta October 26
Nexon's Embark Studios is vrooming onward with its next test for THE FINALS: It's just announced that its first cross-platform open beta event will...
Perfect Ten: Solid MMOs you might be sleeping on in 2023
For today's list, I wanted to take a different approach to recommending MMORPGs to you. I know we often talk about underrated titles, but...
Turkish sandbox MMO Quinfall delays closed beta to January 2024
We've been keeping an eye on The Quinfall - the self-described "biggest MMORPG universe in the world" - since its debut earlier this year,...
Palia has launched European servers, and yes, you still play cross-region
Open beta social sandbox MMO Palia officially takes up residence on the Epic Games Store today, but there's bigger news for playability is the...
Guild Wars 2’s latest roadmap plots events, balance, and betas well into 2024
As we noted this morning, ArenaNet has announced Guild Wars 2's next Secrets of the Obscure chapter, Through the Veil, but as it happens...
Guild Wars 2’s Through the Veil and new zone launches November 7, followed by a weapon proliferation beta
If you take a peek at the 2023 calendar with Guild Wars 2 on the brain, you'll realize that it's been two months since...
Neopets’ ‘new era’ rolls on with events, updates, AMAs, livestreams, and an improved website
Back in July the long-running pet collecting MMO Neopets heralded "a new era" as it went independent, with new owners The Neopets Team (TNT)...
Anime hero shooter Second Wave shares gameplay footage and thoughts from its first beta
Over the past couple of months we've been reporting on Second Wave, a hero shooter/MOBA hybrid dressed up in anime style from developer Challengers...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival London reveals: Viper, zones, and Echoes of Vana’diel
It's time for more reveals for the Final Fantasy XIV fans in the audience as the London Fan Festival has begun, and that means...
Tarisland is overhauling everything from dungeon difficulty to class roles ahead of November CBT
Tencent's Tarisland has another dev post on the official site today with an update on how the team is revising PvE ahead of the...
Genfanad dates closed beta testing of its card game combat revamp for October 20
Over the past couple of weeks, we've been chronicling Genfanad's decision to revamp its combat model into a card game-based system known as the...
Evercore Heroes dev continues internal work on Project R revamp, now in the ‘awkward transition phase’
The shrinking of the PvE-focused MOBA/MMO Evercore Heroes continues. Readers will recall that the original game's paid closed beta didn't draw enough buyers to...
Palia lands on the Epic Games Store next week alongside new European servers
Palia is expanding its playerbase, or hoping to at least: Singularity 6 announced this morning that it's rolling out to the Epic Games Store...
Betawatch: Wayfinder’s proper free-to-play launch will be in 2024
Yes, originally Wayfinder had planned to launch into full free-to-play this year. That isn't happening now, however, and the plans have officially moved into...
