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Meteor Entertainment’s free to play mech title Hawken will enter open beta on December 12th. It will be accessible in all territories excluding China, where it is instead being published by Kong Zhong. Open beta is our chance to implement all the good feedback we’ve gotten from closed beta players …
Read More »5,000 more users invited to Steam Linux beta
Valve expands test pool for beta of forthcoming distribution platform
Read More »Unity 4 launches public beta
New version of game engine released for testing
Read More »Hawken gets closed beta date
Free-to-play FPS mech title Hawken has had its beta dated by new publisher Meteor Entertainment. Hawken is marketing itself as the first in a new generation of free-to-play titles boasting triple-A production quality. The Adhesive-developed title will enter closed beta on October 26th. It will run until October 29th. The …
Read More »Valve to begin Steam Linux beta next week
External testing period to commence later in October for 1,000 users
Read More »Valve’s hardware division teases public betas in 2013
Valve’s freshly revealed hardware team will be looking into public beta tests next year for the division’s various prototypes. Sector head Jeri Ellsworth told Engaget that the company is already conducting internal betas for the team’s potential products. Valve announced their intentions to enter the hardware market earlier this month; …
Read More »Guild Wars 2 available now for Mac
NCsoft has announced a Mac version of Guild Wars 2 – and it’s available to buy right now. As of today anyone who buys the game is entitled to download the beta version of the Mac SKU. It’s still being optimized, although it already allows Mac players to log onto …
Read More »Double Fine turns accidental launch into beta
Developer mistakenly releases Middle Manager of Justice on App Store
Read More »Report: Steam Big Picture open beta imminent
Steam’s Big Picture mode will hit open beta early this week, if a report from The New York Times is to be believed. Over the weekend the mainstream news outlet ran a profile piece on Valve, which among other items claimed Valve’s effort to bring PC gaming to the living …
Read More »Minecraft + Tim Burton = Don’t Starve
Want to know what’s hot in gaming right now? Surviving, that’s what. Whether you’re talking about existing hit Minecraft, emerging underground mod title DayZ or the upcoming zombie-survive-a-thon The War Z, plonking gamers in the middle of nowhere and telling them to deal with it is very much ‘the thing’. …
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