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Beta Sign-Ups for WarCraft III

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-play dept.

Alcachofo writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the long waited Beta Sign-Ups for their newest game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Individuals residing in the USA or Canada will be able to register for a chance to be one of the 5,000 players chosen. The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period, beginning on January 7th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) and ending on January 8th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8)." I couldn't even count the number of great hours of fun WC2 provided us back in the day. What an absolute classic. I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy.

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  1. Any news on system requirements? by justinstreufert · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Their website appears already slashdotted, otherwise I would investigate for myself.

    Do I need a 64MB water-cooled graphics card? Will it require an as-yet unreleased 3 GHz processor due to the wealth of debug code? Will the silly arsed Mac users of the world (such as myself) be able to participate? If not, do they ever intend to release a Mac version?

    Justin

    --
    "Why would God give us a waist if we wasn't supposed to rest our pants on it?" - Rev. Roy McDaniels
  2. Re:What I'm interested in... by Wind_Walker · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If you're interested in not having tons and tons of units, with the focus more on strategy (you know, the "S" in "RTS"?) then I suggest Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns. Here's the reviews over on gamerankings.com. And guess what? If you don't like booting out of Linux (if you boot *into* Linux), it's even been ported over there by Loki!

    It's a very good game, with heavy focus on flanking units, configuring well-balanced troops, and actual STRATEGY, with an innovative and streamlined resource management model. It's highly recommended to anybody who wants to play a strategy game.

  3. Will be worth the wait by bfire · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Typical of Blizzard to hype their games years in advance, but they always end up producing classics. The betas always signal that the going gold is coming fast. I will definitely sign up for this one.

    By the way, a great site to read up more on War3 is here.

  4. This sucks!!!!! by The+Fold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, not that there's a WC3 beta signup, that rules! But these things are always limited to the US and Canada, what about us poor UK peeps who play the games as well? Can't we get a look in :(

  5. Re:reboot worthy? by bigbadwlf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Blizzard finally seems to be acknowledging that Linux exists, at least.
    On their movie download page, the links now say "Download for PC/Linux" and are in DivX format.
    (as if it's not a PC if it runs Linux, right?)
    *snicker*