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Battleground Europe Beta – first impressions

After missing various beta server openings for a good while now due to other games or the dreaded real life, I decided I’d finally make an effort to get on. I often avoid beta’s of games I already play as I like to see things for the first time live, but curiosity got the better of me and I had to take a look.

I didn’t have long in beta so I can only report on a few things at the moment, hopefully I’ll get another chance to drop in soon to take some better screenshots.

A view over a town in battleground europe betaThe first image is a view from our mobile spawn over the town we were attacking, there is some nice scenery with the obvious change being the fauna. You can see some smoke from mortar’s in the distance and the system messages in chat that the Rats (Game Devs) were putting up for our attention, instructing us on what it was they wanted us to be doing. This is a beta afterall and we are there to break things, something I havn’t managed as of yet. I didn’t see a single bug during this first session.

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LEGO!

Personally, i’ve been looking forward to this for ages, but at long last LEGO UNIVERSE BETA IS STARTING SOON!

Click here to head to the beta sign up page.

Looking likely to be a blockier version of Second Life with much less filth and more JOYOUS HAPPY BLOCKS OF WIN!

Sorry, just loved Lego as a kid.

Star Trek Online Beta Begins

As you probably already know the Open Beta for Star Trek Online began yesterday.

I am currently trying to find a decent download for the beta client, but to no avail. By the time I get the beta downloaded the Open Beta will be over. :(

Now Atari have emailed me trailers and screenshots, some of the screenshots I posted about earlier here on MMO-Symposium. It looks like those screenshots and trailers are all I will see of the game for the moment. If I don’t manage to try open beta I certainly won’t be buying the game.

I’ll keep trying download sites such as tentonhammer and fileplanet to see If I manage to get it downloaded.

*Update* I ended up getting a 1 month fileplanet sub to download the beta, it’s downloading as I write this.

Star Trek Online Beta Jan 12th

Wodge, a gaming friend of mine and occasional writer here at mmo-symposium asked me the other day If I was planning to try the beta for Star Trek Online.

I signed up for the beta a while ago, as I do with most of the larger MMO’s. With the announcement that the open beta is due to start on January 12th, I should at least get the chance to try it for a week or two.

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Huxley Closed Beta

Huxley - accepting closed beta invitesJust a quick post today, regarding an upcoming MMO FPS named Huxley.

Huxley is now accepting closed beta invites so if your looking for an MMO FPS game I’d pop over to their site and get your application in.

As a writer here at MMO Symposium I feel obliged to try out new MMO’s. ;) As a former Planetside player I’m hoping I get into the beta for Huxley so once the NDA’s lifted I can give my thoughts. Failing that, I’ll be keeping an eye on this game as it progresses as it has enough about it to have my interest for the moment.

So get your beta applications in and who knows you may see me there.