ALL THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF PC GAMES

beta

Article Types

Steam rolls out new Playtest feature News

Steam rolls out new Playtest feature

Developers and publishers don't need to mess around with keys or mailing lists anymore

Marvel's Avengers beta was played by 6m people News

Marvel's Avengers beta was played by 6m people

Users spent an average of 4.5 hours in the game

Built-in beta tests coming to Steam News

Built-in beta tests coming to Steam

Spotted via the page for Creative Assembly's upcoming Total War: Elysium

Fall Guys beta topped Twitch over the weekend News

Fall Guys beta topped Twitch over the weekend

Pre-orders for the title were the sixth-highest purchased item on Steam last week

Valve is rolling out beta for its revamped Artifact News

Valve is rolling out beta for its revamped Artifact

Follows game's initial weak performance

Media Molecule encourages Dreams creators to use projects commercially News

Media Molecule encourages Dreams creators to use projects commercially

It has opened a beta evaluation

Halo, Destiny 2 and Telltale games come to Microsoft's Project xCloud News

Halo, Destiny 2 and Telltale games come to Microsoft's Project xCloud

That's on top of the 50 titles rolled out last November

Microsoft rolling out Project xCloud streaming service test next month News

Microsoft rolling out Project xCloud streaming service test next month

"Public preview is a critical phase in our multi-year ambition to deliver game streaming globally at the scale and quality of experience that the gaming community deserves and expects"

Bethesda extends today’s Fallout 76 beta following severe launcher bugs News

Bethesda extends today’s Fallout 76 beta following severe launcher bugs

A critical issue with the game’s launcher was forcing users to redownload the entire game

Kongregate’s new Kartridge storefront enters open beta on November 1st News

Kongregate’s new Kartridge storefront enters open beta on November 1st

Online games portal’s new store will launch with over 200 games, with closed beta sign-ups open now

Over one million players have gone monster hunting in the Dauntless open beta News

Over one million players have gone monster hunting in the Dauntless open beta

Free-to-play beta sees over 50,000 beast slayers signing up daily

332k people played Sea of Thieves' closed beta News

332k people played Sea of Thieves' closed beta

Was the top game on both Twitch and Mixer

What Splash Damage has learnt from four-plus years of Dirty Bomb development Interviews & Opinion

What Splash Damage has learnt from four-plus years of Dirty Bomb development

Announced back in 2013, it's been a long road from reveal to final release for Splash Damage's Dirty Bomb

Star Wars Battlefront 2 isn’t pay-to-win, EA says News

Star Wars Battlefront 2 isn’t pay-to-win, EA says

Publishing giant responds to loot crate criticisms following beta played by ‘millions’

1