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Betawatch: Worlds Adrift gets a new experience for PvE and tutorials
Are you a fan of Worlds Adrift but hate having any PvP in your mixture? Good news, then, you can go check out the...
Betawatch: Star Citizen wants you to mine rocks and buy another concept ship
What do you know, there's another concept ship for sale over in Star Citizen. And it's relentlessly specialized in one specific field, making it...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation furthers its alpha amidst a news bomb (September 7, 2018)
So, uh, yeah. This week. You notice how the "breaking" box there is overstuffed with stories? That's because this week has just been crazy...
Betawatch: New World is strutting its stuff (August 31, 2018)
Finally, we're getting some actual information about New World! Like the parrot, it appears to have not been dead but simply resting. And now...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation pushes forward with publisher talk (August 24, 2018)
It's good to see that after the somewhat oddly-named "alpha zero" test phase, Ashes of Creation is planning to move on to alpha one...
Betawatch: Fallout 76 shares details on PvP and crossplay (August 17, 2018)
There's still stuff happening with Fallout 76, even though players aren't testing it yet. You can at least test things out in your mind...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained reaches the green fields of beta (August 3, 2018)
Someone break out the "It's Happening" image, because Camelot Unchained has entered its beta testing at long last! Yes, ti may have been delayed...
Betawatch: Fallout 76 starts beta testing in October (July 27, 2018)
Good news for those of you patiently (or not-so-patiently) waiting for Fallout 76 to enter beta testing, you have a date! Slightly worse news,...
Betawatch: Legends of Aria wants you to break it (July 20, 2018)
Please, break the servers for Legends of Aria. The developers want you to break the servers. There's a big event this weekend and everyone...
Betawatch: Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen kicks off character creation (July 13, 2018)
It's important in an MMO to feel like you own the bundle of stats and spells that you lovingly refer to as a character....
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained has to delay that beta (July 6, 2018)
It's important to note that however frustrated you might be about the fact that Camelot Unchained had to delay its long-awaited beta, the developers...
Betawatch: Saga of Lucimia’s combat is updated for pre-alpha (June 29, 2018)
The nice thing about early testing is that big things can change and it's really all part of the experience. Sure, Saga of Lucimia...
Betawatch: Release keeps on slippin’ into the future for Crowfall (June 22, 2018)
Oh, Crowfall, you really looked like you were going to make it to soft launch this year. But it's not happening; the studio has...
Betawatch: Star Citizen and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week (June 15, 2018)
Oh, boy, Star Citizen. It's been a week. First, the little boy who would never lose faith in you lost faith in you. In...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation gears up for Alpha One (June 8, 2018)
Names are fun! Ashes of Creation has already held an alpha test, but that alpha zero. This upcoming test will be alpha one. And...
Betawatch: Bless Online arrives with a hearty dose of troubles (June 1, 2018)
The day we all thought would never come finally arrived, Bless Online is here! First it was in the head start, then it was...
Betawatch: Dauntless strides into open beta (May 25, 2018)
It's certainly a daunting task to launch a game into its open beta, but the developers of Dauntless are undaunted as the title does...
Betawatch: Worlds Adrift launches early access for airships and actual airships (May 18, 2018)
There are only a handful of games you can celebrate launching by releasing an actual airship into the sky, but Worlds Adrift is one...
Betawatch: Boxes of sand survival for Conan Exiles and Wild West Online (May 11, 2018)
Sometimes, the title "survival sandbox" might seem a bit inaccurate or limiting. But then you get into stuff like Conan Exiles and Wild West...
Betawatch: World of Warcraft moves Battle for Azeroth to beta testing (April 27, 2018)
We spent most of this week watching the slow-motion (and not-so-slow-motion) implosion of a well-known company, so it's easy for big beta news to...
