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Tag Archives: Closed Beta
Hailan Rising enters open beta, invites players to break the server
Hailan Rising, a level-less, free-to-play, PvP-oriented MMO from Reloaded Productions, is entering open beta on February 21st at 1:00 p.m. EST. To celebrate the beta launch, the development team is challenging players to crash the game’s servers. This “Wreck It Week” … Continue reading
Posted in MMO, MMORPG, News, Promotions
Tagged Beta, Beta Testing, betas, Closed Beta, Contest, Contests, crowdfunded, Events, Fantasy, Free to Play, gamersfirst, hailan-rising, in-game, massively-exclusive, massively-exclusive-news, News items, OBT, Open Beta, PVP, reloaded-productions, wreck-it-week
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City of Steam fires up the Colossus
There appears to be no shortage of interesting sights and sounds to experience in City of Steam, although one particular landmark looms above the rest. It’s the Colossus, a slumbering defensive… thing that rests in the city proper, and Mechanist Games has an … Continue reading
The Elder Scrolls Online lead deals with differences between the MMO and single-player RPGs
With all of the excitement over The Elder Scrolls Online’s beta signups, Game Director Matt Firor has his hands full adjusting the expectations of those used to single-player Elder Scrolls titles. Firor danced around several specific questions by The PA Report on how the MMO would … Continue reading
Posted in MMO, MMORPG, News
Tagged Beta, betas, Bethesda, bethesda-softworks, bethsoft, Closed Beta, daggerfall, elder-scrolls, elder-scrolls-online, emperor, eso, Factions, Fantasy, Interview, Interviews, matt-firor, Morrowind, Oblivion, please-dont-suck, politics, PVP, RVR, Sandbox, skyrim, tamriel, tes, teso, The Elder Scrolls Online, the-elder-scrolls, three-faction-pvp, three-way-pvp, ZeniMax, ZeniMax Online Studios, zenimax-media, zenimax-online
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Neverwinter reveals pre-order packs, beta weekend dates
Neverwinter’s closed beta is closer than you might think, as Cryptic has just posted the dates of the three weekend events coming up. The beta weekends begin on February 8th, with successive ones starting March 8th and March 22nd, and will be available to … Continue reading
Posted in MMO, MMORPG, News
Tagged action-mmo, Beta, beta-weekends, betas, Closed Beta, closed-beta-weekends, Cryptic, Cryptic Studios, deal, dnd, F2P, Fantasy, founder, founders, founders-pack, Free to Play, NeverWinter, Open Beta, Perfect World, Perfect World Entertainment, Pre-Order, promotion, Promotions, PWE
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Warface begins operation Closed Beta
Warface. Warface never changes. Except when it does, such as how it’s gone into closed beta today in anticipation of a spring launch. Trion Worlds and Crytek announced that the online shooter has now progressed into the beta phase, where it’ll stay for the time … Continue reading
Posted in MMO, MMOFPS, News
Tagged Beta, Beta Testing, betas, Closed Beta, cryengine, crytek, Dirk-Metzger, Free to Play, MMOFPS, Trion, Trion Worlds, warface
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CCP merging DUST beta with EVE live server on January 10
EVE Online and DUST 514 players have been rubbing elbows on the Singularity test server for a while now. Beginning Thursday, January 10th, the two groups will be hobnobbing together for keeps on EVE’slive Tranquility server. With the two games combining, both playerbases will be able … Continue reading
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Tagged Beta, betas, Business models, CCP, CCP Games, Closed Beta, Console, dust, Dust 514, DUST-514-joins-EVE, EVE, EVE-ONLINE, FPS, Free to Play, game-mechanics, internet-spaceships, mmo-shooter, MMOFPS, News items, PlayStation, Playstation 3, PS3, PVP, Sandbox, Sci-fi, server-migration, Shooter, spreadsheets-online
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Ragnarok Online 2 open beta denied to most of the world
Do you have your heart set on trying out the betalicious Ragnarok Online 2? Well, unless you are reading this from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, or Vietnam, you’re fresh out of luck. While Ragnarok Online 2′s open beta begins tomorrow, Asiasoft posted the news that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Asiasoft, Asiasoft Online, Beta, Beta Testing, beta-test, betas, Closed Beta, F2P, Fantasy, Free to Play, freemium, Gravity, Microtransaction, Microtransactions, mmo-industry, premium, Ragnarok 2, Ragnarok Online 2, Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second, Ragnarok-Online-II
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Earthrise accepting test applications, prepares alpha phase
Earthrise might have gone down hard in February of this year, but a last-minute play by German studioSilentFuture kept it from becoming a permanent addition to the MMO graveyard. Ever since learning that this post-apocalyptic sandbox would be resurrected in a new form, we’ve kept … Continue reading
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Tagged alpha, Alpha Test, applications, apply, Beta, Beta Applications, beta-test, betas, Closed Beta, closed-alpha, earthrise, F2P, Fantasy, Free to Play, masthead, masthead-studios, Sandbox, sci-fantasy, Sci-fi, test, testing
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Introducing Ingress: The MMO by Google
Google has joined the MMO scene. The company revealed its new massively multiplayer online alternate reality game, Ingress, yesterday. Players of this new game will be able to capture and defend virtual control points known as portals, but they have to actually get … Continue reading
Posted in MMO, News, Tablet/Mobile, Trailer, Videos
Tagged alternate-reality-game, Android, arg, augmented-reality-game, Beta, betas, CBT, Closed Beta, Events, Google, google-mmo, ingress, ingress-mmo, iOS, MMO, mmo-industry, New titles, News items, Real life, real-world, trailers, Video
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War Z closed beta launches on Halloween, pre-orders available
Players interested in checking out the new zombie apocalypse game The War Z will have the chance to participate in closed beta starting on October 31st by purchasing a special Survivor package for $19.49. If that’s too long a wait, Hammerpoint Interactive has also … Continue reading
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Tagged alpha-access, apocalypse, Beta, betas, Closed Beta, Free to Play, hammerpoint, hammerpoint-interactive, horror, Launches, mmo-industry, New titles, News items, post-apocalymptic, post-apocalyptic, purchasing-beta-access, Sandbox, the-war-z, war-z, zombies
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