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Interviewing Frostkeep’s CEO as Rend announces July 31 early access
Are you looking for a new way to survive? It's coming. We've watched as Rend wandered down its closed alpha path since May, but...
New Dawn, a survival sandbox set in the 1800s, has launched into Steam early access
New Dawn - not to be confused with Darkfall New Dawn or Osiris New Dawn or Star Trek Online's New Dawn - is hitting...
Camelot Unchained doubles down on development in the beta home stretch
Saying that it needs to "double down" and push hard to get the beta build finished for next month's launch, the Camelot Unchained team...
Ship of Heroes discusses the difference between Alpha and Beta
What makes an alpha? If your answer is "marketing jargon," you're not entirely wrong. But the team behind Ship of Heroes is going for...
Pokemon-inspired ‘massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure’ Temtem is about to break $100K on Kickstarter
In this past weekend's Make My MMO, we noted we were keeping a close eye on Temtem, a clearly Pokemon-inspired "massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure."...
Happy birthday to WildStar, Crossout, and World War 2 Online
The beginning of informal summer is a favorite time for MMO launches, which also means it's prime time for birthdays and anniversaries. WildStar, for...
Dwell is the lovechild of crafting sandboxes and a SNES art style
At first glance, Dwell looks like it might have been taken right out of the 16-bit era. With its pixel art, tiny little people,...
‘Hipster MineCraft’ Occupy White Walls patches in a new launcher and UI update
Ready to delve into the weird world of Occupy White Walls, which one outlet labeled as "hipster MineCraft?" The public alpha of the art-centric...
Artsy MMO Occupy White Walls patches in new assets, including a bar
Back in April, we first covered in-development MMORPG Occupy White Walls, a "PC sandbox-building, AI-driven MMO where people play with Art" rather than wander around...
Occupy White Walls is the most bizarre new MMORPG we’ve seen in years
Are you tired of being a murder hobo in MMORPGs, tasked with little more than mindless slaughter in between gear grinds, achievement hustles, and...
Pantropy cancels its Kickstarter, rejects publishing offers, plans a new Kickstarter
As we've been covering in Make My MMO, the Kickstarter for sci-fi MMO shooter Pantropy hadn't been going as well as developer Brain Stone...
Ship of Heroes shows off the new combat features for its upcoming alpha test
It's not really a superhero game unless you're fighting someone or something, right? So Ship of Heroes has a certain obligation to give you...
Pantropy works to simplify crafting and protect players from offline raids
With $24k out of $94k raised so far, the German mech shooter Pantropy has a long road ahead of it in its Kickstarter campaign.
The...
Multiplayer sci-fi sandbox Pantropy has launched its $91K Kickstarter
Last September, we first heard about Pantropy, a "sci-fi faction multiplayer shooter with mechs and focus on building and crafting" and a really cool...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2017
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
Chronicles of Elyria dives into friends and family alpha
While Chronicles of Elyria's backers should be getting into the game's alpha and beta tests next year, a select fortunate few are already enjoying...
Survived By arrives on Steam as its closed alpha progresses
The love child of bullet hell shooters and permadeath MMORPGs is now on Steam, and it's taking no prisoners. That's just not how it...
Yeehaw, Wild West Online’s early access alpha has begun
The Wild West Online early access alpha has officially begun, at least if you shelled out for the higher tiers of founder pack. According...
Warframe developer Digital Extremes is building a new ‘free-to-play action MMO’
Sharp-eyed readers caught some interesting information in Digital Extremes' latest company report.
The Warframe developer slipped in a line that it was working on a...
Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre
I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...
