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1,000 World of Warplanes Beta Keys Up for Grabs!

Posted 05/01/2013 at 10:17am | by Paul Lilly

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Come get your free game key (first come, first serve).

Looking for a new flight combat MMO action game? Hoping you can find one set in the Golden Age of military aviation? Are you reading this right now? Well you lucky dog, we just so happen to have a whopping 1,000 beta keys for World of Warplanes to give away courtesy of developers Ukraine Persha Sutdia and Belarus Wargaming.net. World of Warplanes is a free-to-play game, but it's currently in closed beta, meaning you need a key to have early access.

Hit the jump to learn more about this game and to claim your key!

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Beta Impressions

Posted 04/16/2013 at 12:28pm | by Gavin Farrington

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Adobe Photoshop Lr5 Beta Now Available

Today Adobe officially lifts the veil on the next version of Lightroom 5. While still very much a beta product, this is our first chance to take a peek at the new features that await.

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AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3 Driver Boost Performance in SimCity and Far Cry 3

Posted 03/20/2013 at 8:30am | by Paul Lilly

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The latest graphics card driver from AMD offers double digit performance gains in some instances.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) no longer offers monthly Catalyst driver updates like it used to, instead choosing to dish out new drivers when it makes sense to do so. Now is apparently one of those times. AMD Catalyst 13.3 enters its third beta as it nears release, and if you're itching to upgrade your software, the latest beta build will reward you with performance gains and fixes in a handful of titles.

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AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta Drivers Improve Performance in Crysis 3

Posted 02/20/2013 at 10:36am | by Paul Lilly

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With six beta releases under its belt, certified Catalyst 13.2 drivers can't be far behind.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this week released its Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 driver for Radeon graphics cards. The latest build resolves minor anti-aliasing corruption seen in Crysis 3, improves Hitmat Absolution Crossfire scaling, and fixes graphical corruption on objects and textures in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. It also includes all the fixes and enhancements found in the previous beta releases.

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Nvidia GeForce Experience Beta Now Available to the Public

Posted 01/24/2013 at 3:04pm | by Paul Lilly

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GeForce Experience hits open beta status and adds support for new games.

Nvidia on Thursday announced that its GeForce Experience beta program is now open to anyone and everyone who wants to kick its tires, so long as you're driving a supported graphics card (and no, AMD cards are not supported). It initially launched as a closed beta back in December 2012, and since that time, over 40,000 gamers downloaded the app. Nvidia said it's been using the feedback it's received over the past month to make improvements.

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Valve's Steam for Linux Beta Goes Live with 26 Titles

Posted 11/07/2012 at 7:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Penguin Steam Linux fans are free to do the open-source shimmy today in celebration of Valve announcing the launch of a limited access Steam for Linux beta. Valve invited experienced Linux users to sign up for the closed beta in October and claims to have received over 60,000 responses in the first week alone. The first round of beta participants has already been selected, though more gamers will be added throughout the course of the beta, Valve says.

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Valve Now Accepting Applications for Steam for Linux Limited Beta

Posted 10/29/2012 at 1:54pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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A Linux port of Steam has been on the cards for a while now. Back in July, the Valve Linux team revealed in its inaugural blog post that it was working on getting a fully-featured Steam client up and running on Ubuntu 12.04. Apparently, that project has made enough progress for Valve to start looking for beta testers.

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Chrome 23 Enters Beta with Improved HTML5 Video Support

Posted 10/04/2012 at 5:09am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Chrome 23 entered the beta channel this week, bringing with it a number of improvements and new features. The latest beta build of Google’s flagship browser, according to Google software engineer Justin Uberti, has everything developers need “to take video engagement to the next level.”

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How To: Enable Steam Big Picture Mode Beta

Posted 09/14/2012 at 4:30pm | by Jimmy Thang

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Valve has released Steam Big Picture Mode, which provides PC gamers with a new, elegant TV-tailored experience of Steam. The problem is Big Picture Mode is currently only in open beta testing, and finding out how to opt into the beta can be tricky. Detailed below are steps to help you get Steam's new Big Picture Mode running smoothly on your big-screen TV.

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Open Source Era for HP's WebOS Begins Today with Beta Release

Posted 08/31/2012 at 12:57pm | by Paul Lilly

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Everyone who purchased one of Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablets last year during the company's infamous fire sale can finally feel vindicated in doing so. That's because the first beta release of Open webOS ships today, HP announced in a blog post. It's been a long eight months since HP first announced it would contribute the webOS software to the open source community, essentially handing the reins over to third-party developers.

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