We look forward to seeing you on the killing fields.
Hi-Rez Studios’ Tribes: Ascend has been in a closed beta long enough for 300,000 players to take the new online multiplayer through its paces. But that wasn’t enough, as the beta will be opened up to all comers tomorrow, February 24 at 5pm GMT.
Real-time strategy elements in a 3rd person shooter could make this a unique online experience.
As the spiritual successor to Warhawk, LightBox and Santa Monica Studios hope to evolve online warfare through their PS3 exclusive, Starhawk. The public online beta launched earlier this month for all PS Plus members and will be open to all Uncharted 3 owners on January 31. The game will be released with a wide variety of online multiplayer modes as well as an offline single player campaign this May.
Indications that the game will be coming this year also ring true.
The original Guild Wars made some waves when it was released by providing a rich and robust MMORPG experience without the financially restricting monthly fee. The upcoming sequel looks to continue this tradition later this year, and while a select few were able to participate in the recently ended closed beta, Mike O’Brien, ArenaNet Founder and President, has promised that we should expect “progressively larger events.”
The public beta has begun rolling out today as well.
Starhawk, the successor to 2007's Warhawk on the PlayStation 3, has now been given a release date. Players can get their hands on the new game on May 8, 2012. However, if you don't want to wait that long, you can at least whet your palette with the public beta, which begins today. The news was announced on the PlayStation Blog.
A multiplayer beta will also be coming sometime in the future.
Activision has Modern Warfare, EA has Battlefield and Ubisoft has Ghost Recon. With the former two enjoying their time in the sun it’s about time for Ghost Recon to join the battle. The original March release date for the next iteration of the Ghost Recon series, Future Soldier, was pushed back with no replacement date furnished, but now Ubisoft has provided us with a brand new date that’s not too far off the original.
Battletoads and Diddy Kong Pilot are now free to download.
RareWare Central is a fan website dedicated to the developer responsible for Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark and more recently, the Kinect Sports series. As such, user Torrentstorm has released beta versions of two unreleased games initially developed for the Game Boy Advance.
Online Beta also dated and it starts sooner than you may expect.
It’s been a while since the Batman-themed multiplayer First Person Shooter was announced, but we haven’t heard a whole heck of a lot about when we could expect to see the game. That changed today and you’ll be happy to know that you’ll be taking shots at batman look-alikes and Joker posers sooner than later.
Looks like we'll be getting a sneak peek at our return trip to Raccoon City.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will highlight the fall of the secluded city in a way that may make some gamers feel uncomfortable. In the game you’ll be part of the task force that is sent in to clean up the mess made by the T-Virus outbreak, which includes eliminating perennial Resident Evil hero Leon Kennedy.
WoW Annual Pass holders to get a digital copy of Blizzard's next major release free, plus other goodies.
It’s been impossible to nail down a release date for Blizzard’s hotly anticipated dungeon crawler Diablo III, but co-founder and president Mike Morhaime made the announcement during BlizzCon’s opening ceremony today that will assuage many a disgruntled fan: you may be able to get Diablo III on release day free of charge.
Drake's latest adventure holds many treasures indeed.
It’s not like we needed any more incentive to pick up Uncharted 3 when it releases on November 1, but Sony has gone and sweetened the pot in an unexpected but pleasant way.
