The last couple of months the live streams have been really stepping up the content. My guess, it is part of a larger media initiative that will lead to Alpha 2.
So if you haven't seen it check out both the character creator they released along with the weather system. Both are legit very impressive.
This month they are hoping to start showing off the combat. It will be broken into different phases, the 1st one they teased will be auto attacks using double daggers.
I suspect next month will be nodes updates followed by another combat update in August (100% speculation).