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Betawatch: Chrono Odyssey hits beta and Bitcraft hits early access (presumably)
The beta for Chrono Odyssey has begun and brought with it... bugs. Now, this would be completely fine if the game in question was Entomologist Combat...
Betawatch: Chrono Odyssey’s impending closed beta, EVE Frontier’s next stage
The closed beta for Chrono Odyssey has a date of June 20th. Fortunately, since that game is all about time manipulation, you can just...
Betawatch: Dune Awakening launches, possibly without rhythm
Finally! After ten thousand years, Dune Awakening is free! It's time to conquer Earth! By which I naturally mean "get a lot of players who...
Betawatch: Dune Awakening wakes up next week, Aion 2 just needs a few more minutes of sleep
So we all remember when Dune Awakening hit the snooze button, but it's coming out next week and even has new trailers on deck...
Betawatch: Fellowship plans its next beta as Lynked launches fully
If you're big on co-op dungeon runs, you'll be happy to know that Fellowship is processing open beta feedback and planning for its next...
MMO Week in Review: Blue Protocol, Warborne, and Equinox Homecoming
The MMO whose untimely demise we called the biggest disappointment of 2024 is getting another chance: This week, we learned that the revised version...
Betawatch: Blue Protocol Star Resonance locks in for a 2025 global launch
What the heck is Blue Protocol Star Resonance? Is it a port of the mobile version that we knew was being developed? Is it...
Betawatch: Dune Awakening awakens for its weekend test
After the most recent delays to Dune Awakening, you will have to wait a little longer to make the spice flow officially. Or prevent...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained is alive, Odin Valhalla Rising is launched
So Camelot Unchained is 12 years old. This would be impressive if the game had launched during that period of time, but it has...
Betawatch: Impressions for Dune Awakening, dates for Equinox Homecoming
If you are waiting for Dune Awakening despite its delays, you might want to take a gander at our own Larry's first impressions of...
Betawatch: Dune delays delivery and Dragonwilds delivers directly
If you had already taken time off for Dune Awakening launching, bad news as the game has been delayed until June 10th to give...
Betawatch: Tomo Endless Blue joins our watch list, WoW Classic begins testing Pandaria
When I saw the announcement for Tomo Endless Blue I immediately began trying to sing a version of Styx's "Mr. Roboto" that incorporated the...
Betawatch: Defiance’s revival is running an open stress test this weekend, and yes you can play
So the good news with Defiance is that it is doing a weekend stress test - tomorrow, in fact. The less good news is...
Betawatch: Stars Reach’s Kickstarter did indeed reach the stars
It's not exactly a shock that Stars Reach hit its funding goal, but it is still newsworthy! Like, it would have been a real...
Betawatch: Crosswind is sailing toward testing
Those of you who dearly want to be able to play an online game in which you go a-sailin' on the deep blue sea...
Betawatch: Pantheon previews primal and possibly problematic PvP
So the Pantheon crew is preparing to add PvP, but the devs are quick to point out that this is raw PvP. So raw...
Betawatch: BitCraft prepares for early access in May
We do not hand out an annual award for most unfortunately named MMORPG, but you have to imagine that if we did, BitCraft would...
Betawatch: Monster Hunter Wilds lands with quite an impact
While I tease our editor-in-chief occasionally about the games that we highlight here in Betawatch, she is not the only person who plays video...
Betawatch: Dune Awakening gets a launch date at long last
If you have been waiting for Godot, you are going to still be waiting. If you have been waiting to exhale, you... actually, you...
Betawatch: Stars Reach delays its Kickstarter for more testers
There need to be more testers in Stars Reach. Not because the current crop of testers is somehow insufficient for feedback, but because the...
