After many, many months of hard work, the Starhawk Private Beta will finally be going live on on the PlayStation Network from tomorrow, November 22nd. A selected a number of loyal Warhawk players who have opted-in to receive PlayStation emails will receive Private Beta keys in the upcoming weeks.
Public Beta codes for Starhawk will be included in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception when the game is available next month. However, the Open Beta won’t start until Early 2012, but in the meantime, a closed beta is planned, starting in November. Warhawk players will be receiving closed beta invitations via email in waves to access the Starhawk private beta.
Harvard Bonin, Sony Santa Monica Studios’ Senior Producer on Starhawk, has been talking to the US PlayStation Blog and has suggested that Warhawk fans will get the first taste of the Starhawk Beta. Its still unclear when the beta is scheduled for but no doubt that players will be lining up to give the game a go.
PlayStation Plus will be getting access to the Assassin’s Creed Revelations Beta on September 3rd 2011. The beta will feature nine playable characters, all unlocked from the very start, and three maps, all also unlocked too. Read more details about the beta below.
Resistance 3 has gone gold, and has been delivered to manufacturing for its 7th, 8th and 9th September release dates across PAL. Insomniac is still working hard however in bringing a Day 1 patch to the game to update the Online component of the game. The multiplayer public beta begins August 10th for EU PS Plus subscribers, with changes made available in the Day 1 patch.
The Uncharted 3 Beta got off to a disappointing start earlier this week, with a number of issues affecting playability. The Welcome Back PlayStation Plus offer give every PSN user access to the beta, and a few hours after going live the servers were overloaded with lots of players trying to connect at the same time.
Now that the PlayStation Network is back up, we finally got a change to play the inFamous 2 UGC Beta that was released last month to selected PlayStation Plus subscribers. We’ve created a short gameplay video with over 5 minutes of in-game footage to enjoy (see below). Check out some of Cole’s new powers and let us know what you think.
The PlayStation Network downtime has caused a lot of headaches to PS3 gamers, especially those who were eagerly to take part in the inFamous 2 beta. We’ve into day 7 of the downtime so inFamous 2 developer Sucker Punch had decided to stop handing out beta codes as they would be useless to the gamers who do receive them.
The SOCOM 4 PlayStation Plus beta can now be downloaded from the PlayStation Store. The beta runs from March 23rd to March 28th 2011, with each day offering something different. Check out the game schedule and match types for the beta below.
Sucker Punch revealed the first details on inFAMOUS 2 UGC a couple of weeks ago at GDC. Well, lucky PlayStation Plus members will be getting access to the inFAMOUS 2 Limited Release UGC Beta exclusively to PlayStation Plus subscribers on 12th April 2011.
