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The developers at Eugen Systems and publisher Focus Home Interactive have launched a multiplayer oriented trailer for the upcoming strategy game Wargame: European Escalation, showing off all the options that gamers have when it comes to engaging others in battle.The two companies have also announced that those fans w... |
11 February 2012
04:53 GMT |
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The development team working on Diablo III has confirmed that the upcoming hack and slash title will have in-game chat after a community manager wrongly suggested that the function will not be available during a Questions & Answers session on Twitter.
Speaking on the official forums for Diablo III Bashiok stated, &l... |
9 February 2012
07:12 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has made more changes to the Diablo III beta stage, eliminating both Scrolls of Companion and Scrolls of Reforging from the game.Nethera, a community manager at Blizzard, has written on the official game forum saying, “The companion pets felt like they were mandatory to maximize pl... |
30 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Microsoft has initiated the procedure required to take down a website which is using the Halo 4 video game name to attract players.
The National Arbitration Forum has received a complaint from Microsoft against Halo4beta.com, which is described as being a fake page, which uses... |
30 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Bethesda has launched an update for the 1.4 beta patch that is now available for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim via Steam.
The developers mention the following changes:
- an audio problem that made the sound effects play louder than intended has been fixed;
- the Master Criminal achievement is now... |
27 January 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Video game developer Crystal Dynamics announced that their upcoming title Tomb Raider reached alpha stage. That means most of the content is now in place and all the game mechanics are well defined, allowing the developers to play the game, even if the experience is somewhat rough in places.
Kyle Peschel, the senior... |
26 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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ArenaNet has confirmed that its special online role playing game, Guild Wars 2, will be released this year, and is going to be previewed by a beta stage that will start in spring, which will incrementally allow more and more people to try out the title.Guild Wars 2, much like its predecessor, wants to deliver a role ... |
23 January 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Steve Parker, who has been working as a senior producer on the Diablo III project, has announced via Twitter that he is no longer working at Blizzard and that he was already getting ready to work on a new project, although he did not mention exactly what it was.His message says, “Hey Twitter, I’m no longe... |
23 January 2012
04:52 GMT |
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The developement team at Blizzard working on Diablo III has announced that they have made a number of significant changes to the game and that might mean that it will see yet another delay, pushing it back to late 2012 or even further into the future, but one leading developer working on the game believes that this d... |
20 January 2012
22:21 GMT |
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Diablo III is getting a number of significant changes to the game mechanics, including core elements like skills and crafting, which might mean that the game, thought to be launched during March, might now be pushed back to late in 2012. Jay Wilson, who is the director leading the development process for Diablo III,... |
20 January 2012
02:56 GMT |
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343 Industries, the developer of the upcoming Halo 4 shooter, has warned fans of the popular series to avoid any ads or pages that promise them access into the Halo 4 beta stage, as they’re completely fake.
The Halo franchise is the most popular series on the Xbox 360, so you can bet that millions of fans are ... |
19 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Lightbox Interactive and Sony Santa Monica have finally confirmed a release date for Starhawk, their upcoming shooter, which is scheduled to arrive on May 8 for the PlayStation 3, while deploying a video about its new beta stage.
Starhawk was announced last year as a spiritual successor to the older Warhawk. As oppo... |
19 January 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Guild Wars 2 has been in development at ArenaNet for some time, but it seems that the team working on the MMO is finally ready to share it with a larger group of players as part of an open beta stage.Angel Leigh McCoy, who is a developer working on Guild Wars 2 at ArenaNet, has told Nevermet Press that, “Planni... |
18 January 2012
02:24 GMT |
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Lightbox and Sony Santa Monica, the developers of the upcoming Starhawk shooter, have confirmed that a public beta stage starts today across North America, allowing PlayStation 3 users to get a taste of the game’s multiplayer before its release.
Starhawk, the spiritual successor to 2007’s Warhawk, aims a... |
17 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is running its first beta session for Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes, the free-to-play online role playing game, and has just posted a special code that can be used by anyone who wants to try it out.
We had a chance to try out Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes at Gamescom 2011, and were thoroughly impressed by ... |
16 January 2012
02:38 GMT |
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The Settler is an impressive series because it is very European, focusing on city creation and development but eschewing conflict for the most part and the fact that developer Blue Byte and publisher Ubisoft are making the most recent installment browser based and free-to-play should be good news for fans.I played th... |
13 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Next month, Microsoft should give us a taste of the beta release of its latest Windows platform, codenamed Windows 8.
The platform will have a server side too, and Microsoft is making the final changes to differentiate the two. The first Beta builds have been delivered to testers a few weeks ago.
Compared to the ... |
13 January 2012
10:42 GMT |
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Along with Windows 8, Microsoft is expected to make available its Windows Server 8 during the ongoing year, and some new info on it emerged. During the past few months, there has been a lot of hype around Windows 8 and the features and capabilities it should bring along on both mobile devices (read tablets) and desk... |
3 January 2012
12:08 GMT |
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CCP, the studio behind the massively successful EVE Online game, has confirmed that it’s now accepting entries into the upcoming closed beta stage for the new Dust 514 shooter, with potential participants needing to have an active EVE Online account if they want to try out the new PlayStation 3 exclusive.EVE On... |
27 December 2011
17:11 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment has released a new batch of screenshots for their upcoming PlanetSide 2 MMO, showing off the capabilities of the game engine in a series or renders.
The images are pretty varied and show both vehicles and actual characters, with a rather impressive level of detail, given that Sony is develo... |
27 December 2011
02:26 GMT |
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Video game publisher and developer Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it is now accepting applications for the upcoming beta stage of the MMO PlanetSide 2.In order to get into the draw for the beta stage gamers need to first create a Sony Online Entertainment Station account and then head to the official we... |
23 December 2011
03:07 GMT |
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Skype is calling out to Mac users looking to test out the new Click to Call service that allows you to call others who have the service installed with a click.Skype Click to Call lets you go from browsing the web to making a call in a single click. Once you install Skype Click to Call, numbers are highlighted with bl... |
16 December 2011
14:11 GMT |
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UPDATE: Trine 2 has also received release dates for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Linux platforms, which you can check out here.Frozenbyte is getting ready to release its latest game, Trine 2, this week, with the Steam version scheduled to appear on December 7, while the retail version, in the form of a special Col... |
5 December 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Counter-Strike fans can finally rejoice as Valve has kicked off the beta stage for the newest installment the series, Global Offensive, on the PC, through its Steam digital distribution service.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was announced earlier this year and, with the promise of combining the best elements from t... |
1 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Valve has finally confirmed just when the closed beta stage for its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive online shooter will debut, as at the end of the month players will get to see just how the new game actually feels.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was revealed earlier this year and, with the promise of combining the... |
21 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Blizzard has started offering free Diablo III beta keys to fans of the game on Facebook through a special month-long campaign on the social network.Diablo 3 is definitely one of the most awaited games of next year, with Blizzard spending quite a long time developing and polishing the role playing dungeon crawler, whi... |
17 November 2011
05:18 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering early adopters the chance to test not only System Center Service Manager 2012 Beta but also System Center Cloud Service Process Pack Beta.
Both are available via the same page on the Microsoft Download Center, and of course, can be grabbed free of charge from the software giant.
System Cente... |
11 November 2011
07:29 GMT |
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BioWare has released a statement over the leak of its internal demo for the upcoming Mass Effect 3 role playing shooter, which was made available, by mistake, for all Xbox Live users over the weekend.It seems that somebody over at Microsoft was a bit too keen on letting others know just how the Mass Effect 3 beta han... |
7 November 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Capcom has clarified some earlier reports that it will be running a beta stage for its upcoming Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City shooter title, saying that neither a beta nor a demo will be made available before its release at the end of March, next year.Capcom is getting ready to deploy a couple of new Resident... |
7 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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adCenter Desktop version 8.1 was introduced last week, with Microsoft unveiling a new feature designed to make it even easier for web advertisers using non-Microsoft platforms, to switch.
The software giant is specifically targeting customers using Google AdWords, but those that stuck with Yahoo! this far are also ... |
7 November 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Windows 8 Beta will deliver a more complete core user experience than the Developer Preview releases, which was focused on developers, and new leaked screenshots of a post-Build 8102 development milestone seem to confirm this. When it made available the first public preview of Windows 8, Microsoft stressed that there... |
7 November 2011
01:41 GMT |
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Roborazzi is a robot affectionately dubbed Party Photographer, created by Greg Shirakyan, a developer on Microsoft’s Robotics team, with the help of the recently released Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 (RDS4) Beta.
Shirakyan used the free RDS4 Beta, a Kinect sensor and a reference robotics platform to ... |
2 November 2011
11:49 GMT |
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The developers of the DOTA 2 game at Valve have announced that players can complete a survey through Steam in order to get access to the beta of the MOBA title.The team is also allowing all those who have received access to send two invites to those who they believe are interested in the game and can help with testin... |
2 November 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Microsoft is allowing early adopters to start testing the first Beta development milestone of Office 365 Integration Module for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.
The module is designed to bridge the software giant’s Cloud productivity offerings with its small business server infrastructure produc... |
2 November 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Valve has confirmed that the closed beta stage for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive won't make its intended late October release date, as the studio has delayed it after getting some serious feedback from professional Counter-Strike players and needs to make modifications before it's ready for at least a cl... |
1 November 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Microsoft will open the Kinect for Windows software development kit to commercial use early next year, the company confirmed just ahead of the 1-year anniversary of its NUI sensor.
There’s no specific launch deadline for the Kinect for Windows commercial program, but the software giant stressed that businesse... |
31 October 2011
06:49 GMT |
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SQL Server codenamed Denali is now in the final stages of the development process with early adopters testing the third Community Technology Preview release for quite some time now.
Microsoft is gearing up to release the next iteration of its data platform in the first half of 2012, under the commercial moniker SQL... |
31 October 2011
06:09 GMT |
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A prerelease development milestone of Windows 8 belonging to the Beta stage is already being tested by some early adopters, seem suggest some recently leaked screenshots.One of the images included with this article, courtesy of MDL, has been snapped during the boot process, when the tester needed to select which oper... |
26 October 2011
11:07 GMT |
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BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 has reached Beta stage, with RIM inviting early adopters to test the upcoming offering which was initially announced in March 2011. Developed in close partnership with Microsoft, the new RIM service is designed to bridge Blackberry devices with the Redmond c... |
26 October 2011
08:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering customers the chance to test drive the next iteration of a solution accelerator designed to streamline the migration to its latest on-premises as well as private and public Cloud technologies. The Beta program for Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 is now live on Microsoft Con... |
25 October 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Microsoft has dramatically simplified the way in which early adopters can access the pre-release downloads of System Center 2012. Testers can head over to the System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products webpage on TechNet and download a range of Beta Builds for next generation System Center offerings. There has to be lit... |
24 October 2011
06:57 GMT |
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It is only the first beta for foobar2000 1.1.9, but it comes with a long-awaited feature, tagging support for WAV files. The possibility to metadata for this audio format has been in demand for years in foobar200.Lack of this feature caused many users to shift to other audio players, MediaMonkey in particular, which ... |
22 October 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Video game developer Beachhead and publisher Activision Blizzard have announced that the Career page in the Elite service will be opened up and filled with stats from Call of Duty: Black Ops later during the week.The beta stage for the Call of Duty: Elite service has ended and the Connect, Compete and the Improve sec... |
19 October 2011
09:00 GMT |
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After the Battlefield 3 open beta stage closed its doors at the beginning of the month, Electronic Arts and DICE have published a handy infographic detailing some of the most impressive numbers gathered from the test stage and highlighting that more than 8 million users joined it across the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox... |
19 October 2011
05:29 GMT |
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The developers working at DICE on the upcoming first person shooter Battlefield 3 are saying that all the problems that players have seen during the beta stage have been solved for the launch version of the game.Speaking to Destructoid Lars Gustavsson, who is the creative director working on Battlefield 3, has said, ... |
17 October 2011
05:50 GMT |
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After early adopters have had the possibility of testing a preview of the Windows Azure Autoscaling Block, dubbed WASABi, they can now download and take out for a spin the Beta development milestone of the resource.
Microsoft is offering the Windows Azure Autoscaling Block as a part of the Windows Azure Integratio... |
14 October 2011
06:32 GMT |
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Video game publisher Sony has announced that Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception has officially gone gold and that players who get new versions of the game will get a special bonus when they check the packaging.The company has included a beta access code for the mix between shooter and strategy Starhawk, which will b... |
12 October 2011
04:21 GMT |
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DICE and Electronic Arts, the two companies behind the upcoming Battlefield 3 first-person shooter, have confirmed that a brand new map for the game's current open beta stage, Caspian Border, will go live this weekend, right before the end of the testing phase.
Battlefield 3 is awaited by many shooter players... |
7 October 2011
07:31 GMT |
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DICE, the developer of the upcoming Battlefield 3 first person shooter, has confirmed that the current beta stage is based on an older build of the title, so the final edition, which is out later this month, will play much better, largely because of the copious amounts of feedback received from beta participants.Batt... |
6 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Red Hat was pleased to announce on October 5th, that the Beta release of the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 operating system is ready for download and testing. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Beta comes with many updates and improvements especially in the areas of identity management, performance and scalin... |
6 October 2011
10:44 GMT |
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