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Over 750,000 registered for MMO's closed beta
Read More »Unity 3.5 Flash Player Deployment open beta begins
$20,000 Flash dev contest launched to encourage Flash development with popular engine
Read More »Over 2m take part in Old Republic beta
EA has said that upcoming MMO release Star Wars: The Old Republic has seen over 2m gamers participate in its recent beta. Over 725k unique users took part over the US Thanksgiving weekend alone, with each player logging in for an average of 12 hours over the period. "The game …
Read More »Microsoft Flight closed beta confirmed
An invite-only beta for Microsoft’s new flight sim series, Microsoft Flight, will commence in January. TheMicrosoft Flightlaunch sequence has begun,” the game’s registration page wrote. We’re thrilled to announce that theMicrosoft FlightBeta is scheduled to kick-off in January 2012 and we arenow accepting applications to participate in the beta program. …
Read More »Opening up Kinect SDK ‘can revolutionise industries’
Development kit due for commercial release early next year says Microsoft
Read More »Over 8m played Battlefield 3 beta
EA-owned developer DICE has released a number of stats about its recent Battlefield 3 multiplayer beta. A total of 8,125,310 took part in the game, firing a total of 47bn bullets and downing 1.5bn other players. 19m players were killed by a knife while 21m M-Com stations were destroyed. 2.2bn …
Read More »Starhawk beta codes bundled with Uncharted 3
Everyone that tags along with Nathan Drake on his latest quest will be taken on an additional adventure next year. Sony has announced that every copy of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will come with download codes for the Starhawk multiplayer beta, according to Eurogamer. The beta is due to kick …
Read More »Diablo III beta testing has begun
Closed beta testing for the long-awaited Diablo III has begun, Blizzard has confirmed, as the game enters what it describes as the final stages of development”. The beta allows gamers to play through the entirety of Act I either independently or in co-op. Five hero classes are selectable. It is …
Read More »Release date for Battlefield 3 beta
EA has at last confirmed a release date for its multiplayer beta for Battlefield 3. It will go live and be accessible to all from Thursday September 29th, less than a month before the game’s global release. Consumers who have previously purchased specific Medal of Honor SKUs or have pre-ordered …
Read More »Call of Duty Elite beta is live on PS3
The beta for Activision’s Call of Duty: Elite service is now live on PS3. Access to the scheme will be rolled out in stages on a by-invitation basis. The COD Elite beta went live on Xbox 360 in July. A date has not yet been announced for the PC beta. …
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