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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...
Betawatch: Crowfall’s Ranger surprise (March 25, 2016)
The Crowfall team has stated its plans to release the Siege Perilous update this month for testers, and the Ranger archetype was originally scheduled...
Betawatch: Landmark is getting storytelling and further wipes (March 18, 2016)
The loss of EverQuest Next is bad news, but Landmark appears to be poised to absorb the strength of its fallen sibling with its...
Betawatch: EverQuest Next is gone, Landmark is launching (March 11, 2016)
We cannot wave farewell to EverQuest Next in this column because it's never actually been in testing. We will be able to wave farewell...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained hits the beta crunch (March 4, 2016)
The Camelot Unchained team is in the midst of a hard crunch period to get the game ready for full beta testing. The good...
Asta opens up client download for its open beta on March 2nd
Boy, it seems like only yesterday that March wasn't yet a month to be worried about, doesn't it? Probably because yesterday it was still...
