Official Demigod website has details on Demigod’s release schedule as well as additional details about the BETAs.

 August. Beta 1. This will not be a “fun” beta. It’s a stress test of the engine. Those of you who were in the Sins of a Solar Empire beta or the GalCiv betas know we’re not kidding. There will be very little balancing in this version. It will also be multiplayer-only at this stage.

October. Beta 2.  This beta won’t be that fun either but it’ll be better than Beta 1. THIS is the key beta in which players give us their ideas and suggestions.  The beta process isn’t just to find bugs but to let players suggestion changes to the game.  There will be a series of Betas 2 (2A, 2B, 2C, etc.) that will be released in which we begin incorporating player suggestions. These will happen quite rapidly thanks to Impulse.

December. Beta 3. This may or may not be a public beta depending on how things go.  What we have done in the past is give players who have been particularly helpful access to late betas so that we can keep tweaking and enhancing with their feedback.

January. Gammas (release candidates).

February. Tentative release date at worldwide retail in multiple languages.

We do plan for the game to be available at stores roughly the same time in North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia/NZ at the very least.

Users who are part of the beta will be getting something special but I am not at liberty to talk about it yet.

After all the wait, Kaos Studios has finally released (or rather, “leaked”) the BETA demo of their buggy fps; Frontlines: Fuel of War. Why release a BETA demo? No clue. The BETA demo includes Oilfield and GNAW maps and contains the latest v1.1.1 code. Note that this is a BETA demo and when the “final” version comes out, you may have to uninstall/reinstall it. Yeah, dumb. You can post the feedback regarding the demo here.

The PC demo has been leaked! Give it a try before it gets un-leaked. Yes, it is legit. Why should you play it, you ask?

1) It is leaked! The mysterious appeal makes it sexy AND exciting
2) More people means more fun!
3) It isn’t 1.1.0. No, it is 1.1.1. What difference does the extra 1 make? FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF.

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Just when the week seemed to cool down and relax a bit, The Reawakening opens up the beta test for everyone and suddenly a stroll in the park seems pretty far away.

After an extensive closed beta testing, endless hours without sleep and fighting bugs, The Reawakening is now ready to move on to the public beta stage. Amazing feedback, constructive criticism and love letters from the truly devoted testers of the closed beta, has been invaluable and helped the team whip the game into shape.

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Valve has released a new BETA of their Steam client. To acquire the BETA, open your Steam client, go to Settings>BETA participation.

Changelog:

- Enabled ClearType fonts if they are enabled in Windows
- Improved in-game status and play time tracking for games with launcher apps
- Improved in-game overlay input handling in a variety of games that previously did not capture or block keyboard input correctly
- Added D3D10 support to the in-game overlay
- Made voice chat requests ignored if you’ve blocked communications from the caller
- Fixed the original Half-Life not getting to 100% complete downloading when it should
- Improved server selection logic for Friends and VAC server connections
- Improved Steam network connectivity in the face of dropped UDP packets

Hurry up and register for the Battlefield: Heroes BETA!

   1. All applications will be reviewed and Beta testers will be selected and added to the Beta test over time as more openings become available, so please be patient.
2. If selected, you will receive your Beta key and further instructions via e-mail.
3. Once in the beta, you will be given access to the Beta Testing forums where you will receive further instructions.

EA has released the BETA version of the recently announced v1.50 Patch. The new patch adds two new maps as well as various fixes.

Starting today you can be part of the Beta phase of Battlefield 2142 Update 1.50. Update 1.50 is a big step for Battlefield as it is the first time we have included community created maps and included them into an update. Wake Island makes a come back thanks to The Sir. Community and appears alongside a brand new map new to Battlefield created by Jason Brice, Operation Shingle. Also, for those who prefer to fight on foot, we have added a No Vehicle option to a number of maps to allow you to fight without worrying if you’ll come face to face with a Battle Walker. Also, as requested by match broadcasting groups we have separated the Commanders voice volume from the Sound Effects so you can keep the explosions and gun fire without the Commander interrupting the broadcast. Read the rest of this entry »

As reported earlier, a BETA for Battlefield: Heroes is on it’s way. The official Battlefield: Heroes website has posted an announcement regarding the BETA:

As you may have noticed, you killed our website. We are not angry. We’re very pleased you want to be in the Beta.

The beta for Heroes will be divided into several stages, the first of which is all about testing out this new way of getting games to you all; by downloading and installing them from a website. We’ll also be trying out some other dull stuff to do with servers, so we are expecting the systems to be down as much as they are up.

To help us track down all the technical issues, we have asked a third party to find us some specialist Beta testers. We are doing all this because we want to be sure that when we launch Heroes, everything will work smoothly.

So hang in there! We will announce here when it’s time to sign up for the public stage of the Beta.

Goodman
Community Manager

Fireglow games’s WWII RTS is getting an editor later this month.

We know that many of players are looking forward to releasing the editor for Sudden Strike 3 and glad to announce that they will be able to download it freely from www.suddenstrike.com this month! Currently, we are conducting closed beta-testing in order to please the Sudden Strike enthusiasts with user-friendly interface and wide set of tools.

This editor allows many of game fans to create their own single- and multiplayer missions without any restrictions. We are also going to release series of video instructions for those who are new in map-making and mission design. These instructions will be available via http://www.suddenstrike.com/ so you will be able to become familiar with the editor’s features and techniques of making missions for Sudden Strike 3 step by step.

Here(18,3 Mb) you can download a video shows key features of the editor for Sudden Strike 3.

Stargate MMO is now available as a closed BETA. Check out the Press release below:

Stargate Worlds, the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) from new publisher FireSky, is now taking registrations for closed beta at www.StargateWorlds.com .

The closed beta is an invitation-only test of the upcoming science fiction MMORPG Stargate Worlds. Invitations will be sent out this spring and summer as the Stargate Worlds team ramps up the numbers for testing.

The select group of beta testers will provide feedback to the development team about their game experience while also providing vital insight into the performance of the servers. The closed beta will begin with a small core of gamers and gradually expand as more functionality is added. Beta testers will experience Stargate Worlds alongside the developers who also will be playing the game. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Eurogamer.net, Battlefield: Heroes BETA will be hitting the interweb on May 6th.

Sign-ups will be handled over on the official site once it’s ready, and the full game is set to launch in the third-quarter of this year.