All articles tagged with #alpha release
The custom campaign mod 'Path to Menzoberranzan' for Baldur's Gate 3 is targeting a playable alpha release in the first half of 2026, featuring a tutorial level and extensive new content, with ongoing development and infrastructure upgrades to support a large-scale RPG experience.
Midjourney, a popular AI image-generating service with millions of users on Discord, has launched an alpha version of its website, allowing users to generate images directly on the web. The release is currently limited to users who have generated over 10,000 images on Midjourney. The web interface offers a clean and minimalistic design, with improved prompt settings and a visual interface for adjusting settings. Users can also view their image generations and participate in a crowdsourced image ranking project. While the web interface retains all image generations, it does not sync with the Discord Bot chat. Midjourney is facing copyright infringement lawsuits from artists and creators. The company plans to release an iOS app and introduce folders and collections on the website in the future.
The Kodi Foundation has released the third alpha version of Kodi 21 'Omega', the popular home theater software. This release includes various fixes, improvements, and new features such as changes to the Estuary interface, fixes to FFmpeg library usage, improvements to gaming interface, and enhancements to platform-specific functionalities. Users can download the alpha version for testing, but should be aware that some regressions may occur due to core changes in FFmpeg 6.0.
OpenAI is rolling out proprietary and third-party plugins for ChatGPT, expanding its capabilities beyond language processing. The plugins will be available through an iTunes-like "Plugin Store," and a demo video shows how they can automate tasks based on prompts. Currently, the plugins are only available in a limited alpha release for developers and insiders, but OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT Plus users. A retrieval plugin is already open source and easy to use.
Star Citizen's latest alpha release, 3.18, caused the game's servers to crash due to an overwhelming number of players trying to log in at once. Despite efforts to fix the issue, many players are still locked out and those who can access the game are experiencing crippling bugs. The game's persistent universe is still suffering from a partial outage. Star Citizen's playerbase, many of whom paid for the game years ago, are understandably frustrated with the ongoing development issues.