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A closed beta testing period for Blizzard Entertainment’s highly-anticipated real-time strategy game StarCraft II is set to kick off later this month, CEO Mike Morhaime said in a recent Activision-Blizzard earnings call.

The PC title is slated for release in mid-2010, and Blizzard plans another expansion to the studio’s World of Warcraft franchised, titled Cataclysm, for later this year.

Morhaime says Blizzard expects a “tremendous response” to the beta, which will be available worldwide. Blizzard has details on joining the beta testing on their official website.

Source ~ USA Today

Perpetual Entertainment announced today that people can sign up for their chance to enter the closed beta playtest for the upcoming Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising. The game is an upcoming MMOG that let’s you be a son or daughter of an Olympian god. Players will come face to face with greek myth legends like Cyclops, Minotaur, and Medusa.

You can sign up here:www.godsandheroes.com/betasignup for a chance to get in.

EDIT: I just got time to check email and was about to remove this link as per an email from KohnkeComm.com informing us that the information pertaining to the beta was retracted but I see that the link is now active so I guess we’ll leave it up for now unless I hear otherwise from either the game provider or publishing company.

EDIT-2: I just received word from Jesse Henning with KohnkeComm.com, who was kind enough to forward a press release with updated links and full information. To read more about Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising, click the “Do You Want to Know More?” link below:

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Early this morning, Bungie’s parent company Microsoft announced that next spring, it will stage an open beta test for the multiplayer aspects of Halo 3. “The Xbox Live multiplayer public beta, which is a prerelease version of the multiplayer experience of Halo 3, is scheduled for availability in spring 2007 exclusively on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system,” Microsoft said in a statement.

Microsoft gave no further details about the Halo 3 beta, but did divulge some information about the PR campaign for the eagerly awaited game, due sometime in 2007. On December 4, a single advertisement for the game will be shown during an airing of Monday Night Football on ESPN. “The ad…will provide viewers with a unique and compelling look at Master Chief and the world of Halo 3,” Microsoft said in a statement, giving no further details.

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NVIDIA released these beta drivers for Windows Vista RC1. The current ForceWare driver is a beta release that will enable you to test the basic features and capabilities of the new operating system.

Installation Notes:

• These drivers are tested for use only with Microsoft Windows Vista RC1 only.
• Package contents include Audio driver, SMBus driver, SataRAID driver, SMU driver.
• Network drivers are provided In-The-Box and are automatically installed during the Windows Vista RC1 installation process.
• This driver package does not include an installer. You must use the INF installation to install these drivers by going to the Windows device manager and manually updating the drivers.

User Guides:

Installation Instructions
Windows Vista RC1 Driver Versions:

• Audio Driver (v4.66)
• SMBus Driver (v4.56)
• SataRAID Driver (v9.04)
• SMU Driver (v1.20)

Supported Products:

• nForce4 SLI
• nForce4 Ultra
• nForce4 Pro 2200
• nForce 590 SLI
• nForce 570 SLI
• nForce 570 Ultra
• nForce 550

Beta Driver – nForce Windows Vista x86 RC1
Beta Driver – nForce Windows Vista x64 RC1