beta testing
Old-school web browser MMORPG Tanoth has been resurrected in a playable beta format
Here's a blast from the past that is sure to catch genre fans by surprise. Does anyone here remember Tanoth? It was a web...
Crowdfunded multiplayer RTS Stormgate enters headstart today ahead of its August free-to-play launch
If you're an MMORTS junkie as MOP's Tyler is, you've probably been watching Stormgate's development with great interest over the last few years. In...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 478: Ultima Online finds its stones
Justin and Bree discuss the WoW War Within prepatch and Ultima Online's New Legacy, followed by a mailbag catch-up segment on AI, holidays, release timing, and MMO complexity.
StarCraft II-inspired multiplayer RTS Immortal Gates of Pyre plans Steam playtest this weekend
After a lengthy period of silence, the team behind indie RTS Immortal: Gates of Pyre has announced a playtest on Steam for August 2nd...
Ultima Online’s New Legacy and crackdown on third-party clients have vets rioting
Ultima Online is a very old and fairly small MMORPG nowadays, but even so you probably knew that it has a thriving emulator community,...
Marvel Rivals debuts story trailer, adds Thor and Jeff the Land Shark to this weekend’s closed beta test
Today is the day when NetEase's Marvel Rivals cross-platform closed beta kicks off and it's come with a bit of a surprise in the...
Betawatch: New World Aeternum and Ultima Online New Legacy begin closed beta
This weekend is all about beta testing things that are already out and you can play right now even without the beta test. That...
Mecha Break announces a surprise open beta test starting on August 10
Maybe the real breaks were the mecha we made along the way. Is that anything? No. It's complete nonsense. But if you want to...
Cozy MMO Palia teases nameplates, house tours, and a greenhouse in next week’s beta update
Fresh off its acquisition by no less than MMORPG company Daybreak, Singularity 6's still-in-beta cozy MMO Palia is teasing a bunch of new content...
World of Warcraft’s pre-patch for The War Within disables both warbanks and cross-realm trading because of bugs
If you look at the pre-expansion patch World of Warcraft delivers ahead of expansions as a dry run of the expansion itself, The War...
Here’s what to expect from New World’s two-phase Aeternum console beta tomorrow
All right finally here we go: Amazon has just pushed out a big post on what exactly gamers can expect from New World's first...
Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG Fractured Online is finally, officially out of early access
Fractured Online has been through a whole lot over the last few years, from its Kickstarter campaign to its Gamigo-backed early access, then to...
New World declares Hot Spriggan Summer with today’s event and update
Well, Amazon told y'all that it was going to be running events all summer to keep you busy in New World while you wait...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 477: The lineage of Lineage
Justin and Bree discuss Throne and Liberty's beta, Ultima Online's New Legacy, New World, Spellfarers, TennoCon, and Soulforge, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, No Man's Sky, and T&L, plus a mailbag topic on the usefulness of MMO mobile apps.
City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p1 is live with the Marine Affinity powerset and new raid
If you were keeping an eyeball on City of Heroes' Homecoming not-rogue servers over the last month, you already knew that the player-led volunteer...
‘Adaption shooter’ Ascendant is plotting an August open beta – with transmedia ambitions
What the heck is an "adaption shooter"? That was my first and really only question upon first hearing about Ascendant (fka Ascendant Infinity), PlayFusion's...
Ultima Online sets its first New Legacy open beta for this weekend
On the MassivelyOP podcast this week, Justin and I were speculating on when the Ultima Online New Legacy beta is happening - surely it...
The MOP Up: Grim Dawn spices up the endgame with a new mode
OARPG Grim Dawn's third expansion is on the way with a brand-new game mode that should inject some extended life for its playerbase:
"Ascendant Mode...
Grab a New World Aeternum PS5 console beta key from MOP and Amazon – EU version
After a brief delay, MMORPG players - and non-MMORPG players, as Amazon hopes - will finally be getting their first look at New World's...
Grab a New World Aeternum PS5 console beta key from MOP and Amazon – NA version
After a brief delay, MMORPG players - and non-MMORPG players, as Amazon hopes - will finally be getting their first look at New World's...
