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Bungie prepares for Marathon closed beta News Oct 7th, 2025

Bungie prepares for Marathon closed beta

"This is an important checkpoint for us"

Valve tweaks Steam store menu News Sep 25th, 2025

Valve tweaks Steam store menu

This was released in beta in July

CHARTS: Modern Warfare 3 beta helps COD return to No.2 on Steam News Oct 17th, 2023

CHARTS: Modern Warfare 3 beta helps COD return to No.2 on Steam

Title set to launch on November 10th

Halo Infinite multiplayer beta hits 272.6k Steam concurrent users on first day News Nov 16th, 2021

Halo Infinite multiplayer beta hits 272.6k Steam concurrent users on first day

Test was surprise-released to celebrate both the sci-fi shooter and Xbox's 20th anniversary

Microsoft rolls out Xbox Cloud Gaming beta for PC News Apr 20th, 2021

Microsoft rolls out Xbox Cloud Gaming beta for PC

As well as iOS devices like iPhone and iPad

Steam rolls out new Playtest feature News Nov 5th, 2020

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 Sep 1st, 2020

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 Jul 28th, 2020

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 Jul 27th, 2020

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 Mar 31st, 2020

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 Mar 17th, 2020

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 Jan 22nd, 2020

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 Sep 26th, 2019

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 Nov 1st, 2018

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 Sep 26th, 2018

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

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