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Not much is know about the upcoming Halo: Reach title. All we know is that it will take place on planet Reach, The first planet the Covenant attacked, ( I highly recommend the book The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund ). Since we don’t know anything else we can only speculate. A while back Microsoft was looking for people who can handle huge servers to come and work for em. Could the servers be for a mmo? A mmo set in the Halo Universe would sell shit loads, Hell, If Bungie took a a pile of shit, turned it into brownies and slam the Halo logo on it and call em “Halo Munches” people would buy and eat em, Even knowing what the main ingredient was. That’s the power of a strong IP. But enough derailing, I highly doubt Halo: Reach will be “just another Halo FPS”, Since the beta of Halo: Reach multiplayer comes along with Halo: ODST, it would be rather fucked up to have a FPS beta in a FPS game so to speak. Or could Halo: Reach be the follow-up to Halo Wars?
But i put my money on that this will be MMO of some sort that will try and counter Sony’s MAG. But all we can do now is wait….

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Joakim manage to get a hold of a key to the closed beta of NCsoft upcoming MMORPG Aion: The Tower of Eternity. This beta will run for 3 days, and Joakim is playing like a mad man right now. So expect a full report and what we can expect from what very well can be the contender to Blizzards World of Warcraft.

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Because I managed to get some shit together and buy a new graphic card. I will be writing an article about the beta time on monday or tuesday. I didn’t get a leading graphics card because it was too damn expensive. Plus I don’t have two PCI-E 16x slots right next to eachother.

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And my god damn son of a puke sucking graphic card thought it would be a good idea to break down the day before yesterday and I don’t have any money to buy a new one before the 25th. But how is this really a problem? Because the beta starts on the 19th and ends on the 21st!?!?!? Does someone hate me or is it karma for something I’ve done? *cry*

In swedish:

Som tack för att du förbokat Aion hos oss på Webhallen så får du nu möjlighet att vara med i betatestet pågår mellan 19-21 juni.

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The beta testing for Blizzard’s upcoming RTS Starcraft II is starting up this summer. So if you want to try and join in create an account at Blizzard’s Battle.net site.

US Link,   EU Link 

Starcraft II Beta

But wait! There is more! You all heard of the game Huxley yeah? That FPS MMO that was suppoused to come out years ago, The game developer Webzen are now ready to bring people into the beta.
Follow the link to get to Huxley’s beta test sign-up.

 Huxley Beta

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A picture that is supposed to be “leaked footage from Modern Warfare 2 beta” has been floating around the web, Infinity Ward have stated on their Twitter page that it’s is indeed a fake. 
Their respond on Twitter was “BEFORE this even becomes a news story (because I know it will) THIS IS A FAKE. A well done fake, but still fake. Sorry” 

So put back the tissue box kids, False alarm

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Over at Infinity Wards blog FourZeroTwo a poster who claimed he was a beta tester for Infinity Wards upcoming game Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 2 put up a post with info about the game.
What makes us think this really is a leak and that the information could be correct is due to the post got removed by Infinity Ward rather quick. We got the complete list from the post.

Keep in mind, if true the game is still in beta, and things will be changed.

• Vehicles will be in MW2
• M16 will return, using stopping power will only be OHK at head, neck, and torso (abdomen, limbs, and hands/feet will not)
• Ak47 and M4 will return, unknown if there are any changes
• M40 will return, ACOG damage boost will be fixed
• Scorpion, P90, M21, R700, G3, G360 will not return
• There are more unknown weapons that will not return
• New sniper rifle: SR25M (United states forces)
• New Assault rifle: Diemeco C8 (Canadian forces M4 equivelant)
• New Assault rifle: L85A2 (United Kingdom forces)
• Total weapons in multiplayer are said to be around 35
• Favourite Modern warfare 1 maps will return
• Helicopters, air strikes, UAV will return
• Red dot sightings will come in different shapes for multiplayer (circular, square, original)
• Snipers will have special grass camouflage (As seen in Modern warfare 1’s campaign)
• All perks will return from MW except eavesdrop and others will be altered
• All gametypes will return from MW and all will have hardcore versions
• New gametype: Secure (Call of duty version of capture the flag, however you capture the enemy’s Intel)
• New gametype unconfirmed name, similar to search and destroy, however instead of trying to plant a bomb, you try to kill a specified enemy
• Solider customization for each class (and each country)
• Sniper with silencers will NOT be in multiplayer
• There are NO bots in local multiplayer
• Similar version to Nazi Zombies, however details are unknown
• NO guest players online, 1 player per console
• Killcam save feature
• There is blood and gore
• Offline/Online Co-op
• Story takes place in the Middle East
• Role as US marines return
• Ken Lally voice work in campaign
• Release is set for sometime in November
• New army tags will be available to add different elements in campaign (similar to halo skulls)
• Campaign-only weapons 

So there you have it, Some rather intresting changes indeed, And if zombie mode makes it in, well let’s just say there will be joy.

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As you may have read a while ago, Patrick got a beta invitation for Quake Live by ID Software. I’ve played it now for about a week and I thought I’d share some thoughts about it with you. First of all I would like to say thank you for the beta key Patrick :)

In a nutshell, it’s Quake 3, but it’s web browser based, meaning you can play it almost anywhere without having to install it as long as the computer has the muscle for it. I haven’t tried it out on a really piss-poor computer yet but one of my friends were about to so I’ll just wait for his verdict. Speaking of friends, I have 4 out of 10 invitations left if anyone wants one.

They’ve made several improvements from Quake 3. Everything you do is collected as stats which is viewable from your profile page or the leaderboards if you manage to get on them. I’m currently on a kill/death ratio of 0.5 :( Loading screens are probably new. I don’t really know if they updated them in Quake 3 Arena. Everything tuns freaking smoothly as you would expect from a Quake 3 game, even if it’s browser based. I’m almost constantly on 125 fps which seems to be the limit (can anyone confirm this?).

The resistance varies greatly. To make it balanced, ID made a sort of matchmaking system where you could choose servers with players of the same skill level as you. You can however join whichever server you choose, so be prepared to meet godlike players or players that runs around shooting the ground all the time. I think all the old game modes are there, you can filter anything you wanna play to find servers faster which is awesome. You can join yout friends with a click if the server isn’t full of course, and there’s a chat system in the browser.

Graphics wise, you can change many different settings and you can play fullscreen. I’m playing in 1920×1200 fullscreen. It upscales some textures but the resolution itself is really what it says it is which you can see from my screenshots down there. I started playing in-browser so that’s why some of the screens are smaller.

ID thought of pretty much everything with this game. You’d have to nitpick to find anything bad. It’s a really awesome game and I would recommend it to anyone that’s played Quake 3 in the past or still does.

The good stuff

+ Web browser based
+ It’s free
+ Lots of customization/settings/stats
+ Runs smoothly
+ Fun as hell
+ Friendsystem
+ Easy to use

The bad stuff

- Matchmaking system isn’t perfect
- I’m really bad at this game :p (I’m a console gamer first hand damnit, I can’t use the mouse :D)
- Doesn’t work with all browsers (Yet. This is only a beta, remember?)

The screens

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