The official PlayStation blog recently revealed that access to the Starhawk private beta will shut down on January 3, 2012. Developers claim to have introduced various changes to the actual game citing the feedback they received from participating gamers.
The blog further revealed that just a few weeks after the end of the Starhawk private beta, the public beta will go live. A definite date for the same is yet to be disclosed by Sony, but it has been confirmed that during this period, the beta will be thrown open to gamers who possess voucher codes which were offered through retail copies of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.
Harvard Bonin, Senior Producer, SCEA, commented on the blog, “The time has come to say ‘thank you and good night!’ As of Tuesday, January 3rd, the lights will go down on the Starhawk Private Beta. It’s been a wild, wild ride and we want to thank all the participants that took time out of their schedule to help us test Starhawk. We’ve learned an enormous amount and have applied much of it already. We’ve still got a long way to go but the leg up this info has provided us is incredibly valuable. The Private Beta was our first step to try out the game in the wild and it’s been simply awesome. And because of this success, we’ve decided to keep the Private Beta live through the holiday break.”
This PS3 exclusive is a third-person shooter coming from the developers who created Warhawk. It transpires in a distant future wherein humans have begun habituating on other planets. Frontier is one such place where protagonist Emmett Graves and his team are faced with the task of fighting off mutants called the Outcasts.
The Starhawk private beta will end on January 3, 2012, but gamers who missed out can look forward to the public beta, access to which is expected to be opened in the same month.