beta testing
MultiVersus’ beta has closed down, but still can be played offline for the time being
Over the weekend, the ability to answer "who would win in a fight between Shaggy from Scooby-Doo and Batman (not from Scooby-Doo)" was taken...
Guild Wars 2 formally announces fourth expansion, Secrets of the Obscure, launching August 22
We hope you liked the Guild Wars 2 expansion name leak because it accurately called the summer expansion: It is indeed Secrets of the...
Tarisland’s global closed beta is finally underway on PC and Android
As promised, Tencent's Tarisland officially enters closed beta today, with a PC open globally and an Android beta open for a more limited group...
Working As Intended: My 20 years of Star Wars Galaxies
Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D heads to the beach
A beach party is in full effect over at AdventureQuest 3D: "Summer is here, heroes! Bask in the thrill of adventure, collect Trophies for...
Betawatch: Palia promises a Switch launch this year in addition to a PC launch
If you are one of those people still posting cringe-worthy chatter about how you are above petty concerns such as console gaming (perhaps with...
Free-to-play PvPvE shooter The Division Heartland confirms closed beta test for PC on June 27
Back in May 2021, Ubisoft unloaded a whole slew of plans for its shooter series The Division, including the reveal of The Division Heartland,...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard of: Solarpunk, Hyperspace, and Dawnlands
Welcome back to another run-through of some new-to-us MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles that we (and presumably you) have never heard of. If you have,...
Discord announces additional monetization via new subscription gating tools for server creators
For regular users of the chat program Discord, monetization of the platform began a potentially worrying trend when the company announced the server subscriptions...
The Stream Team: A peek at the open beta of Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore
The Steam Next Fest is on, and there are several games joining in on the demo and beta testing melee. One of them is...
Hearthstone twists all of its rules in a new ladder mode
Touting it as "classic Hearthstone with a twist," Blizzard is preparing to upend the digital card game's standard format with something a little more...
Gaijin’s ‘aquatic adventure MMO’ Age of Water enters paid closed beta stage two early access
Way back in 2020, Gaijin announced a new MMO called Age of Water. It was under development by Three Wales Studio, and it was...
Mortal Online 2 promises a public beta of territory control mechanics soon as it adds more Elementalism spells
A lot of the talk coming out of Mortal Online 2 for the past couple of months has been focused almost entirely on its...
Competitive team PvE game Evercore Heroes hits paid closed beta today [Updated]
We don't often receive press releases for a game that declares itself "completely unique competitive PvE experience that’s not a MOBA or an MMO"...
Perfect New World shares adjustment plans following last month’s closed beta test
With all of the news flying around recently, it may have been easy to forget that Perfect New World, the latest global spin-off game...
The MOP Up: WalkScape opens up a community portal
To bring all of the game's news and access together in one place, the in-development ARG WalkScape created a new Portal. If you'll recall,...
Betawatch: Skull & Bones will get a beta, honest, for realsies this time
So approximately four thousand years after it was initially announced, Ubisoft's Skull & Bones is finally promising that it's going to enter into closed...
Not So Massively Roundup: Among Us’ 5th birthday, GTAO Mercs, & betas for The Finals and The First Descendant
Welcome back to a quick Not So Massively roundup of MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles with new info this week!
First, Grand Theft Auto Online reared its...
Old School RuneScape answers Forestry questions and previews Sailing, RuneScape opens a Woodcutters’ Grove June 19
It would appear that Jagex has been bitten by the lumberjack bug, as both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have put out details that...
Blue Protocol, celebrating Japanese launch, still plans a western beta later this year
The Amazon team responsible for Blue Protocol's upcoming Western release continues to be a day late, as last night the team released a message...
