Posts tagged Beta 
Far Cry 3 kicks off a two-week closed beta this summer on PS3, Xbox 360
GameStop PowerUp Rewards members who pick up Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on May 22 at, well, GameStop, will receive a code to participate in a planned closed multiplayer beta for Far Cry 3, Ubisoft announced today. The beta will kick off this summer and last two weeks on the PS3 and Xbox 360. If ...
Bringing a Chinese shooter to the west with Mercenary Ops
Mercenary Ops is something of a rarity. While there are quite a few Western-developed games being published in Asia by Chinese and Korean companies, there aren't a lot of Chinese-developed online titles being published by Western companies. Developed in China by Yingpei Games, which used to be ...
'Hundreds of thousands' have already bought Guild Wars 2, played beta
The Guild Wars 2 beta opened the weekend of April 27 to anyone who had pre-purchased the title, free from NDAs or embargoes, and "hundreds of thousands" of people signed on to test it out, ArenaNet president Mike O'Brien writes. ArenaNet couldn't handle all of the potential players, but as any ...
LittleBigPlanet Vita beta now accepting applications
The beta for LittleBigPlanet on Vita is gearing up, and Sony is inviting interested players to enroll in the test run right here. Sony promises "many of you" will have the opportunity to participate in the beta. The enrollment form consists of simple questions, such as "Which LittleBigPlanet games ...
Diablo 3 open beta nets 2 million participants
We can't imagine how many clicks it takes to get to the center of a Diablo 3 open beta, but Activision has told us how many men and women have braved the potential carpal tunnel syndrome. Blizzard president Michael Morhaime revealed in Activision's annual earnings call today that a total of two ...
Starhawk beta participants get extra cosmetic options for their service
The Hand of the Founder is a glowing glove you can affix to your right or left hand, provided you played in the Starhawk beta. If you played Warhawk and the beta, you'll also get some exclusive paint schemes for all of your rides. ...
PixelJunk 4am beta now available to non-NA PS Plus subscribers
PixelJunk 4am is live in early access beta in the United Arab Emirates, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland with a trimmed-down version available exclusively for PS Plus members. The beta offers one song and one visualizer as a test for the full seven songs, six visualizers with 38 ...
Hybrid will cost $15; beta to kick off at 'the end of this month'
5th Cell's XBLA-exclusive shooter, Hybrid, now has a price point: 1200 MS Points ($15). Producer Caleb Arseneaux confirmed the pricing with Joystiq during a preview session earlier this week. Arseneaux also narrowed down the beta timeline. Initially set to launch the game sometime following GDC, ...
Diablo 3 beta pulled 300K simultaneous players into its special little hell
Diablo 3's weekend beta went about as smoothly as a hamster in a ball rolling down an erupting volcano – which is to say it was completely normal for a high-profile beta test. Saturday saw a peak of 300,000 concurrent players, Blizzard community manager Micah Whipple (Bashiok) tweeted, ...
PixelJunk 4am launching May 15, includes visualizers for your music
Q-Games' three-dimensional music performance visualizer ... experience PixelJunk 4am, which we can neither describe nor play without some handwaving, will be released on May 15, the company announced today. The free Pixeljunk 4am Viewer, which allows you to watch others' 4am performances live, will ...
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