After my last blog stating that the world of video gaming had suddenly awoken, it seems that I managed to stir up a hornets nest of activity! Not only did the release date of the Ghost Recon Future Soldier title update get released, some bigger, and quite frankly better, news came in that I just had to share with you!
Where to start.... well lets kick off with news from the End of Nations camp. Not satisfied with dishing out a single piece of drool worthy information, they went the whole hog and released 3 announcements!!
On the 20th of July the Beta doors at End Of Nations will fly open and let hoards of RTS fans flood onto its servers. After years in Alpha tweeking and testing we are finally going to be able to talk a little more freely about this glorious game. Although I'm not going to give out spoilers I think it is important that everyone who even heard of Command and Conquer gives this game more than a fleeting glance.
Its hugely ambitious setup will leave you in a spin as you take on the might of huge tanks, speedy ground assault vehicles and co-ordinated infantry in mass strategic combat. Taking place in battles stretching across the whole world you fight for your chosen faction with the sole aim of domination.
But Flads how do I get involved in this????? Well that, dear readers, is a good question and fortunately I have the answers for you. To make life easy for you (and me) I'll break it down into steps:
1) Go to www.endofnations.com.
2) Sign up to the lively and highly intelligent forum (just for your information it is one of the most grown up games forums I have been on and I don't mean that in an elitest way either!).
3) Register your interest for the Beta.
4) Sit and wait for a beta key.
However should you be a little inpatient there is another way that you can get involved! Follow steps 1 and 2 from above but instead of just registering for the beta, you can actually get involved in helping fund the development and becoming a Founder Member! This will grant you priority access to the beta along with giving you early access to the main game, grants you an XP boost over 60 games, gives you a 5 level headstart on a new commander plus lots more. This really is value for money if you are into this type of game and not only that but it secures you a little piece of RTS history to boot so it's WIN, WIN!!
If that wasn't enough the Trion guys managed to reveal another little gem! The last piece of exciting news is the tentative release date of August 17th.... yes the actual release date! That leaves a good month of beta testing to whet your appetites and then you can really get stuck into the grind.. leaving nothing but smoking machinery in your wake (cue evil laugh!!!)
I should probably state that you might find this a little selfish of me but none the less I think you should know.
Yesterday at 20 minutes past my official bedtime I was sitting on my computer staring bleary eyes at a rampant Twitter feed. I had been spamming Planetside 2 for about an hour and half (much to the detriment of my Twitter following!!) when a message appeared in my inbox.....
Getting a beta key for Planetside 2 is a similar affair to End Of Nations. Once again I shall save you a wall of text and give you the simplified version:
1) Go to www.planetside2.com
2) Get a Sony Online entertainment Passport
3) Go to Twitter and follow @Planetside2
4) Spam unceremoniously at the poor bugger from SOE in hope you get a beta key
So hopefully that gets you up to date with the current news we are most interested in and I hope to see lots of you on the various battlefields, be it trading wits or trading lasers!
Cheers
Old Flads
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