{"id":8636,"date":"2007-04-10T15:23:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/halo-3-beta-starts-next-month\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T12:23:32","slug":"halo-3-beta-starts-next-month","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/halo-3-beta-starts-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo 3 Beta Starts Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Microsoft<\/i> has finally ended players\u00b4 desperate wait by telling that Halo 3 beta tests will take place between 16th May and 6th June.<br \/>\nThe test is open only for Europeans who have either won a competition arranged by a fansite, or have bought the Xbox 360 game <i>Crackdown<\/i>, which includes an invite to play Halo 3 beta.<\/p>\n<p>The players participating in the beta test will receive the right to download the game\u00b4s beta version which includes three maps: <i>Snowbound<\/i>, <i>High Ground<\/i>, and <i>Valhalla<\/i>. The maps showcase Halo 3\u00b4s different sides and vary from small to large. Those in possession of Crackdown will be able to download the beta version from the game\u00b4s &#8221;Downloads&#8221; section, when the test has begun.<\/p>\n<p>To ease the pain caused by having to wait, fans of the series can download a documental video that revolves around Halo 3\u00b4s multiplayer mode from the Marketplace. The size of the video is 350 MB.<\/p>\n<div class=\"small\" style=\"color: rgb(160, 167, 164);\" align=\"right\"><i>Source: Press release<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that Halo 3 beta tests begin somewhere around middle of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news\/8636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}