Alphas & Betas

MMOs in various stages of testing and crowdfunding, playable and… not. Don’t forget to follow our Betawatch and Make My MMO columns for a weekly rundown. [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Palworld continues its critter preview videos with a look at the legendary Frostallion

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Depending on how far along you've gotten in Palworld (assuming you're one of the millions playing the survivalbox), you might have already gotten to...

Age of Water outlines how to find fish and highlights a couple of NPC factions

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Did you expect a game called Age of Water to not have fishing? If you did, then let Gaijin Entertainment and Three Whales Studio...

Multiplayer survival sandbox Smalland exits early access February 15 with new content and features

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Back in March 2018, we first caught wind of Smalland, a multiplayer survival sandbox that sees players as itty-bitty sprites surviving in the scaled-up...

First Impressions: Nightingale’s survival and realmwalking blend could make it a stand-out in the sub-genre

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Our regular readers know that the survival sandbox sub-genre is suddenly getting very crowded in very short order, which means that the upcoming gaslamp...

Monsters & Memories shares video footage from its recent ‘Biome Jam’ art dev test

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Earlier this month, Monsters & Memories developer Niche Worlds Cult talked up an art test known as a Biome Jam, which was intended to...

Magic to Master goes crypto, ties down a publisher, and eyes a nebulous February early access release window

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With all of the loud goose honking that came out of the gaming industry in 2023, it would be understandably easy to have forgotten...

Chronicles of Elyria claims that over 90% of fans still want the MMO

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As the saying goes, those who can't make MMOs, talk about MMOs. And so it is with Chronicles of Elyria's Soulbound Studio, which is...
head, shoulders, skull and bones (skull and bones)

Betawatch: Skull & Bones lands washes ashore in open beta at long last

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If you didn't believe that Skull and Bones would ever hit open beta, or really any beta, you aren't alone. I have been making...

The Stream Team: Sailing the open beta seas of Skull and Bones

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After seven worrisome delays, it's finally time for MOP's Chris to get his hands on the open beta of Skull and Bones! Will this...

Two weeks into early access, Kickstarted survivalbox Fractured Veil patches up and merges servers

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While server merges are sometimes necessary and healthy, they're not the best optics when they happen mere weeks after a game's early access release....

Star Citizen begins its Valentine’s Day, Lunar New Year, and free fly events for February this weekend

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The month of February is loaded to the gills with events (and shop sales) for the alpha spaceship sandbox of Star Citizen, as CIG...

Players rolled nearly 50K characters during Nightingale’s stress test last weekend

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When Inflexion announced this week that it's planning to launch Nightingale's early access two days earlier than originally planned, it casually mentioned that it...

Skull & Bones’ soft launch is underway for preorder players ahead of next week’s formal release

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Ubisoft's long, long delayed pirate "co-op pirate open world action RPG" MMO Skull & Bones has finally set sail with a soft launch into...

Star Citizen firms up April’s alpha 3.23 features and recounts development progress for January

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It's roundup day for Star Citizen fans, as CIG has put out its latest roadmap update outline and January development report for fans to...

Tencent’s Tarisland drops a video guide to its Ranger class

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While some upcoming MMOs keep info behind closed doors, Tarisland is making all kinds of public effort to pump up the community for this...

Think gamemaster-delivered content is dead? Multiplayer Helldivers 2 is trying it anyway

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Approximately a thousand years ago in the lost age of 1997, I remember inching my way across an isometric Ultima Online screen, fighting insane...

Enshrouded offers up some beginner’s tips in its latest video

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Enshrouded might be familiar to survival sandbox vets, but it's also possible that some of its systems are unique to those players, or that...

Dune Awakening’s latest video snippet is all about playing both solo and with friends

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Who here would like another vertically oriented video snippet out of Dune: Awakening? If you raised your hand, then you're probably reading this on...
such economy, very player

Tarisland discusses its business model and in-game economy in a new video

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Tarisland has airdropped in a new video about its economy this week, but the downside is that the video is a bit vague when...

Scars of Honor is a throwback to the ‘golden age’ of MMOs with a $200K Kickstarter

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Another day, another MMO that seeks to "bring back the golden age of the genre." But will the emerging Scars of Honor capture the...

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