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Betawatch: Elder Scrolls Legends opens up (August 5, 2016)
If you've been waiting for something a bit more scroll-happy before jumping on the virtual card game train, you'll be happy to know that...
Betawatch: Shroud of the Avatar is proudly persistent (July 29, 2016)
Let's make something clear: Shroud of the Avatar has not launched, it's just handled its final server wipe and will now be persistent moving...
Betawatch: Das Tal weathers the summer alpha storm (July 22, 2016)
The doors are open for Das Tal's summer test, and the result has been good and bad. Good because a lot of people want...
Betawatch: AdventureQuest 3D steamrolls toward open beta (July 15, 2016)
You know how some titles like to linger in ill-defined test phases forever? AdventureQuest 3D doesn't want to go that route. The game is...
Betawatch: World of Warcraft and the art of pre-patch trolling (July 7, 2016)
We have a launch date for World of Warcraft's next expansion, but we don't have a date for the pre-patch before the expansion launches....
Gigantic plans a one-day stress test for the weekend
The team at Motiga is happy that players have logged in to stress test Gigantic's servers. But it's not enough stress. More stress is...
Betawatch: Riders of Icarus moves into head start (July 1, 2016)
Riders of Icarus has not launched yet; it's in head start. Yes, head start before open beta, rather than before, like, launch or something....
Betawatch: Shroud of the Avatar prepares launch without launching (June 24, 2016)
It's important to note that Shroud of the Avatar is not actually going to launch on July 28th. It's just not going to wipe...
Betawatch: A whole lot of E3 news (June 17, 2016)
This week was all about E3, and for MMO players, it didn't feature a whole lot of new titles. Oh, there was plenty of...
Betawatch: Paragon launches its essentials and plans for open beta (June 10, 2016)
If you're so eager to get into Paragon that you cannot wait another moment, you can buy in with the game's new Essentials Edition...
Betawatch: Riders of Icarus rounds out its beta (June 3, 2016)
The third and final stage of Riders of Icarus testing is upon us! The third and final closed beta started on Thursday and will...
Betawatch: Crowfall adjusts its testing patterns (May 27, 2016)
The testing pattern for Crowfall is going to be just a little bit different moving forward, with an emphasis on having fewer phases over...
Betawatch: AdventureQuest 3D shows off its cross-platform performance (May 20, 2016)
You would think that cross-platform play for games would generally be a thing by now, but the fact that I can only get a...
Betawatch: Perfect World signs on to publish Gigantic (May 13, 2016)
Things had looked bleak for Gigantic. Setting the game up as being only on Windows 10 and Xbox One hadn't exactly bolstered its playerbase,...
Betawatch: Chronicles of Elyria racks up the funding (May 6, 2016)
On May 3rd, Chronicles of Elyria started its Kickstarter campaign. On May 4th, the developers were already hitting significant funding milestones. On May 6th,...
Betawatch: Shroud of the Avatar prepares for no more wipes
Shroud of the Avatar is into its final countdown as a game without permanence. Sure, the most recent update required a character wipe as...
Betawatch: WoW Legion is launching in August (April 22, 2016)
This week, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft's sixth expansion, Legion, will indeed arrive this summer as planned. August 30th is the big day....
Betawatch: A perilous siege hits Crowfall (April 15, 2016)
Players of Crowfall are in quite a lot of peril with the arrival of the Siege Perilous testing phase. Or are they assaulting a...
Betawatch: Everything is going into beta (April 8, 2016)
Do you feel a cold, hollow pit in your heart that could only be filled with Auto Assault and its legacy of motorized vehicles...
Betawatch: You may completely believe that Otherland is back on Steam (April 1, 2016)
Yes, we've all had fun with today's joke, but you can probably 100% believe the fact that Otherland is back on Steam after a...