Category Archives: Beta

Valve has announced Steam Trading Cards, a new service that rewards gamers for gaming on Steam, is in beta. Outed on Saturday through the Steam Database, the service allows customers to earn Steam rewards for “playing the games they love.”

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After quietly and temporarily escaping custody last week, CD Projekt’s REDkit, a modding suite for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, has finally made its official debut.

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UFO Online is now in open beta and you can get in on the tactical MMO browser battle, by protecting the Earth from extraterrestrials who are out to probe your special place.

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Infinite Crisis has gone into closed beta, and Turbine will be sending out keys to a pool of registrants who signed up to test the MOBA. On top of this, a new Champion Profile has been released and its The Joker. Sign up for the beta here, and check out a look at Batman’s nemesis below.

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Marvel Heroes will be the recipient of another closed beta this weekend starting on Friday, April 26 at 8.00pm EST until Monday, April 29 at 2.59am. Invites started going out last night, so check your email. Gazillion Entertainment said the beta will be focused on bug smashing so if you have a key, they kindly request your presence. In-game currency will also be handed out so as to test cash shop purchases. All cash, and all other progress, will be wiped once the tester is finished. Marvel Heroes is slated for release on June 4. Thanks, Lorehound.

Blue Byte’s free-to-play, browser-based take on Anno 1404 has gone into closed beta; sign up now to check out Anno Online.

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The next beta build of DUST 514, Uprising, will make significant changes to the skill system.

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Want to get on board the Company of Heroes 2 beta? The application process is among the easiest the industry has ever fielded. Just go ahead and Like the game’s Facebook page. Congratulations, lucky winner! You have been selected for a beta testing position. Say thank you. The strategy title is expected on PC on June 25.

Thanks, CVG.

A video has turned up online showing almost 20 minutes of The Elder Scrolls Online, presumably captured from a recent beta event. It demonstrates the character creator, dialogue, and the player dashing about a sandy environment, fighting wolves and doing emotes.

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Carbine Studios has opened Wildstar beta registration to all comers; you can get on board here. NCSoft told Destructoid that the beta won’t follow the usual weekend-only pattern, with testing periods expected to run for a week or more at a time. Wildstar is expected later this year; its conceit is that it offers a cartoony sci-fi world to explore with a kind of wild west feel. It hopes to offer long-term end-game value.

Bohemia pinged us to point out that the Arma 3 alpha has been updated. There are plenty of changes to take in but the key items include improved network performance, reducing vehicle lag; an end to some peculiar crashes; and that you can no longer throw grenades under water. Okay, maybe that last one is interesting mainly to me. Full patch notes are available on Steam.

Firefall’s latest major update went into beta testing during PAX East this weekend, kicking off the Chosen invasion, adding a ton of dynamic and local events, and much more.

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The next patch for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim allows for optional removal of the level cap; a higher difficulty setting; and about a gazillion bug fixes.

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Sci-fi platform sandbox Edge of Space is looking for beta testers from 7:00PM EST March 8 through the same time on March 10. To grab a code, just visit the game’s website; a trailer through the break should give you a taste of what’s to come. Edge of Space will sell for $15 when it launches later this year but is $10 on both Desura and Rain while in beta, and once you buy in you’ll have unlimited beta access. If you like it, why not give it an upvote on Steam Greenlight?

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After word went around yesterday of a Modern Warfare 4 beta scam, the website’s owners have shut it down. Fusible reports the organisation responsible claims it was itself scammed by a company it engaged to help grow its Facebook page, despite posting encouragement to sign up on said Facebook page.

Just a reminder that anybody asking for your personal details to sign up for a Call of Duty beta is probably trying to steal your details and make your life miserable. Fusible has word of a new scam using the ModernWarfare4beta.com domain name. Some minor sleuthing quickly exposes the site’s owners, who have nothing at all to do with Infinity Ward or Activision. Similar scams turned up for Black Ops 2 last year, as well as for Halo 4, thanks to the enormous non-core audiences big name shooters command. Be wary.

Dota 2 has surpassed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to nab the record of most concurrent users on Steam. Dota 2 peaked at 297,010 users on March 1, overtaking Skyrim’s 287,411, which at the RPG’s launch was the highest total player number Valve’s service had ever recorded for a single title. The occasion was noted by a Reddit user and even charted, showing the MOBA’s player base growing steadily; expect it to hold the record for quite some time.

Thanks, PCGamesN.

Three and a half years on from its announce and a good six years after development began, the new game from Counter-strike creator Minh Le is finally going public.

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Bloober Team’s PlayStation 3 and Vita MOBA, Deathmatch Village, will soon begin closed beta testing.

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Warframe is a co-operative online free-to-play third-person shooter with randomly-generated missions, sweet ninja swords and a variety of unlockable weapons, upgrade, special abilities and classes – all from the makers of the excellent The Darkness 2. You are invited to join the Tenno this weekend, from 12:00PM EST on February 15 to 9:00AM EST February 19, thanks to an open beta event. You don’t need a key, but you will need to be registered, so visit Warframe to get on that.

Thanks, Massively.