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Hawken will be the recipient of a second closed beta starting tomorrow, and running through November 13. As an incentive, the developers are putting pre-sale bundles featuring customization and item perks on sale for $5, $15, $30 and $60, according to Joystiq. Open beta starts on December 12 and you can sign up for it here.

If you jumped into Hawken’s beta this weekend you may have spent the first hour flailing about in confusion being thoroughly blown up. That’s okay, friend; that is normal. Peep at these training videos until you reach a level of basic competence.

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Hawken beta play has been dated by developer Adhesive Games, and closed beta registrations are now open. The indie studio made the announcement at New York Comic-Con, as well as discussing the success of Hawken’s alpha testing. Find out how you can take part below.

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Oculus Rift may have been slightly over-enthusiastic in tis messaging of Hawken’s support for the headset; the mech sim’s developers don’t even have the hardware yet.

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Hawken is a competitive multiplayer effort through and through, but Adhesive Games is keen to to bring in other kinds of experience.

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Hawken, the bonerrific indie mech sim expected in December, will release with full support for VR headset oculus Rift.

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Hawken, the free-to-play online shooter from Adhesive Games, has been played by the folks over at PC Gamer. Below the break, you can watch four minutes of gameplay from the site, complete with techno music. Hawken will release in December on PC and you can get in on the beta through here.

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Hawken, the free -to-play mech blaster from Adhesive Games is to be adapted into a live action series courtesy of DJ2 entertainment and Warner Premier. They describe it as “Romeo & Juliet” meets “District 9.” Check out the trailer here.

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A trailer for the Hawken webs series, directed by Gears of War art director Jeremiah O’Flaherty, has been posted below. Produced by DJ2 Entertainment and to be released by Warner, the web series stars Edi Gathegi, Gonzalo Menendez, Dameon Clark, and Hannah Hall and is set for release in 2013. The series was announced last earlier in the month. The free-to-play Hawken beta launches on December 12, through Gaikai. Sign up here. Thanks, Evil Avatar.

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Warner Premiere, the company behind live-action Mortal Kombat: Legacy, has announced it’s secured the rights to develop a web series based on the futuristic mech shooter Hawken. Initial plans for the web series will take fans to the start of the series where humans on an industrialized planet are battling for dwindling resources. Copper Media, a new division of Silver Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution and DJ2 Entertainment are attached to produce. Further details about the production will be announced in the coming months. The free-to-play Hawken beta launches on December 12, through Gaikai. Sign up here.

Adhesive seems to be considering some form of single-player or training content for Hawken, which is good news for those daunted by the prospect of leaping straight into multiplayer battles,

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The sad-eyed waif central to this Hawken trailer completely fails to capture the emotion most of us would feel upon being granted a mecha.

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Check out indie mech sim Hawken in action, running on Gaikai and nVidia’s GPU-less technology.

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Graphics tech pioneers nVidia have announced a cloud-based GPU called GeForce Grid.

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The indie mech sim Hawken will be the recipient of a series of live-action shorts directed by Jerry O’Flaherty, the art director on Gears of War. The shorts will combine filmed footage with effects created by Unreal Engine 3. The first short will debut during E3 in June, according to Kotaku. The free-to-play game itself launches on December 12 and you can sign up for the beta here.

I dub this day “Christmas in March” to honour receipt of a new Hawken teaser trailer. Put aside just over a minute to do something nice for your eyeballs.

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Fascinating indie mech shooter Hawken has won $10 million in funding for its creators.

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Indie mech sim Hawken is taking beta sign ups ahead of its launch at the end of the year.

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Adhesive has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming multiplayer mech-combat game Hawken. The trailer throws some light on the story of the game, as well as featuring gameplay footage showing mechs fighting each other and contains a beautiful background score. The game’s looking pretty good. Adhesive’s also confirmed that another trailer for the game is due at the end of this week. The downloadable title is in development for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, but has no date yet. Watch the trailer below.

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Gigantic lumbering bipedal mechs. Sweet real-time damage that turns them to wrecks. Pro looking gameplay sans publisher strings.

These are a few of Hawken’s favourite things.

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