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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Flying Wild Hog’s humanity-versus-machines shooter Hard Reset is now available for download via a PC digital deliver service near you. Get it from Steam, FilePlanet, GameFront and many other fine game downloading services.
Plenty of Fileplanet subscribers tipped us to a solicitation that went out overnight, inviting them to “exclusive access into a highly classified Xbox 360 beta event!” beginning March 1. Those who have signed up tell us it is for Blur.
After months spent catering strictly to the game-purchasing crowd, Mythic has released a free 10-day trial for their massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online.
Are you a North American member of the IGN Insider’s program or Founders’ Club who doesn’t have a beta key for Metal Gear Online? Well you’re in luck, as IGN is releasing three waves of beta codes to IGN Insiders starting tomorrow. The first two waves of keys will be for both Insiders and Founders’ Club members, with the third wave strictly Insider online. Right now you can join the Founders’ Club for just $US 9.95 monthly, so if all else fails and you desperately want to get into the beta you can always plunk down $US 10 and cross your fingers.
Metal Gear Online at FilePlanet [FilePlanet - Thanks Abel!]
Funcom, Eidos, and IGN are proud to present the ‘open’ beta for Age Of Conan, coming to a PC near you on May 1st, if you’re lucky. Members of FilePlanet are invited to sign up for the open beta period, with 50,000 slots on the line for a chance to put the game through its paces. In order to make sure people are focusing on actually testing it, the lucky thousands will be restricted to level 13, so don’t think you’re getting that much of a leg up on the pile.
“The IGN and FilePlanet audience has consistently told us that Age of Conan is one of their most anticipated games of the year, and we are very pleased to partner with Funcom and Eidos on the Open Beta,” says Senior Vice President of Consumer Products at IGN, Jamie Berger.
Sign ups should be active soon, so keep an eye on the FilePlanet AoC mini-site.
The Crysis demo is still on target to hit September 25th, but FilePlanet Founders Club members now have access to the beta for Crytek and EA’s gorgeous first person shooter. Not a Founders Club member? Tough. Those of us in steerage and economy will have to sit on our hands a little while longer for the next round of beta acceptance e-mails, all for FilePlanet subscribers, unfortunately, but that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo should help the time go a bit faster. In the meantime, I’m going to watch a slide show of Crysis screenshots and make up my own sound effects. Pyew pyew! Kathooom!
Crysis Beta [FilePlanet]
