Many of you will know this date and its significance already, it's only 4 days from now and it's ultimately the date of the fully open beta test for Battlefield 3's Multiplayer. If you want to play the beta and you're playing on the 360 or PS3, just go to your respected dashboard on the 29th and look for the beta, you may have to look through the games list to find it, but I'm 99.9% certain that they'll be featured in the spotlight, making searching irrelevant. If you're on the PC, just go here. If you purchased the Limited Edition/Tier 1 Edition of the recent revamp of Medal of Honor then you'll have access to the beta on the 27th at some point.
Details of the beta were kept under wraps until only very recently, with only scraps of information available around the internet, mostly being unconfirmed rumors. It was under the general assumption of the public that the only way to access the beta was to buy one of the special editions of MoH, which many did. Then news started to spread around that it would be available to all and these MoH codes were in fact just early access codes. In my opinion this could be the crack that breaks the glass in the ongoing CoD vs BF war. Putting what is essentially a demonstration of the full multiplayer online for free with the only requirements to play being a console/PC and an internet connection is a genius piece of marketing by EA and my hat really goes off to them; mainly because other companies will more than likely follow suit after this. Crackdown did it first and began a fashion of games with "free" betas inside, a sales technique to sell, what the companies must believe is a shitty game and advertise a better one. Then EA came along and went, fuck it, we have enough money, here's a free beta for everyone.
Every member of CGN will be playing from the 29th onwards, so if you want to play with us hit up the beta and you may run into us. We'll all be on the 360 version, though I may dip into the PC version at some point, and one of us may hop onto the ps3 version for mere comparisons.
In the meantime here's a little montage I whipped up to tease your appetites, containing gameplay from myself and commentaries from the entire range of CGN's staff.
See you on the Battlefield!
