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Developer CCP Games has revealed that Dust 514 will remain in closed beta until sometime next year.

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The closed beta testing period of Codemaster’s free-to-play PC management title, F1 Online will come to an end on Tuesday June 19 in preparation for the open beta. In addition, the non-disclosure agreement that closed beta participants have been bound by will also expire on June 19, freeing all and sundry to talk about their experiences with the title and share any screens and video captured from it.

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Another day, another CS:GO beta update – and soon you can get in on them! More »

The APB Reloaded closed beta is proceeding well, with demand far outstripping available testing positions and a European launch planned for the near future.

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Consider yourself a bit of a nifty hand at defending the old ancients, do you? Then perhaps you’d like to secure a spot in Realm of the Titans’ upcoming closed beta, which aims to gather together the best of the best.

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EA has now released the Crysis 2 multiplayer closed beta, at a hard drive cost of 1.8Gb. This is an 360 exclusive. Get it here, and find a direct-feed movie and screens below.

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Final Fantasy XIV beta? Yeah, we already tried that when it was called Final Fantasy XI.

We kid, we kid. We hope. If you’d like to take an early peek for yourself at how Square Enix has improved on its tried-and-true MMO formula, though, you need only wait until March 11.

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OnLive boss Steve Perlman’s confirmed on his blog that the cloud gaming service has now entered closed beta.

“Beta is an AWESOME milestone for OnLive, capping many years of work. We’re really looking forward to hearing what you think,” said the exec.

Of the beta’s goals, Perlman said: “One of the key challenges that OnLive technology addresses is providing a high-quality, fast-response gaming experience over a wide range of situations: different speeds/locations/types of broadband services, a variety of different PC and Mac configurations, several kinds of input and display devices, etc.

“So, a major focus of OnLive Beta is to test as many of these different situations as we can.”

You can still sign up for the beta, if you haven’t done so already. Bear in mind it’s US-only.

Fileplanet has started handing out closed Beta keys to Huxley: The Dystopia.

To get in on this, all you have to do is sign up with FilePlanet – even without a subscription. You will also have to create an account with ijji.com and so far this is only open to North America.

Big apologies to the Europeans.

More over on Massively.

Valve, in its never-ending quest to support Team Fortress 2 until the End Times, has opened a closed beta for its team-based shooter. Secluded from normal play, this beta uses specially selected clans and competitive players to test new TF2 features before they go live.

“The TF2 Beta is something we’ve just started running,” said Valve’s Robin Walker to Shacknews. “It’s aimed at filling a hole in TF2′s iterative development model.”

“To iterate effectively, we need to be able to measure the impact of our changes,” he said. “Up until now we’ve been successful at measuring that impact on the non-competitive TF2 community, because we have good internal proxies for it–the TF2 team itself, plus other internal and external playtesters.”

“Our proxies for the high end competitive play aren’t as good, and that’s lead to us making some design decisions that have hurt it.”

Walker also emphasized that casual players haven’t lost any stock here; rather, the beta has been created in hopes of balancing tweaks for both casual and competitive players.

More through the link.

Loads of Beta news this week in MMO round-up.

IncGamers made good on its promise, and has posted part-two of its Aion Beta preview, Mortal Online’s second stage of Beta testing begins soon, CrimeCraft started its Beta and Alganon is prepping for one.

Loads of MMO are going to be coming out soon, and there will be more than just fantasy offerings on the table. Sci-fi, apocalyptic, modern, and steampunk are all heading our way.

Hit the jump for more on the week in MMOs.

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NHN and Webzen are accepting closed beta sign-ups for the PC version of Huxley: The Dystopia.

The MMO has been in open beta in Korea since 2008, uses Unreal Engine 3, and combines FPS and RPG elements.

But you knew that already.

A release window for PC or Xbox 360 has yet to be announced.

To sign up for the beta, head here.

Ys Online: The Call of Solum is about to go into a second closed beta, and you can be a part of it.

The test goes live this month, and will include new features such as new class specializations, a raised level cap of 40, a PVP system, four new instances and three new dungeons.

Keys are limited, and can be grabbed from the Key to Play website or Ys Online official site.

Press release below.

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Whoops. If this Tawkn post is to be believed, a poster on the Home beta forums has just dropped a ton of information on the next phase of the app’s roll-out, including a November 20 date for the introduction of the v1.0 client – the launch software, basically – to the beta servers.

The post says that new servers will be coming online in the “next week or so” and that two new waves of beta invites are about to bring a “huge” number of people into the test to stress v1.0.

“Open beta will be here when it’s here,” says the post.

See for yourself.