Huxley beta registration open

By Oli Welsh Published 8 May, 2009

Test scheduled for next month.

Long-awaited massively multiplayer FPS Huxley has opened registration for a public beta test.

The test is a brief 10-day affair, scheduled to take place between the 3rd and 14th of June. You can sign up at the Huxley website.

Huxley has been in open beta for a while in its native Korea, where it's being developed by Webzen. The North American and European rights are owned by NHN, which will run the game through its ijji.com portal.

There's no official plan to release the game in Europe, although NHN doesn't seem to be blocking Europeans from taking part in this beta test. (You'll have to be a night-owl though - servers will be open from 2pm to 10pm, Pacific Daylight Time only. That's 10pm till 6am here in the UK.)

A planned Xbox 360 version of the game has been put on hold pending the performance of the PC version. Gone the way of most console MMOs, then.

More at the Huxley gamepage.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • stoopidgreg #1 3 years ago

    hm, seems their servers will only be open 9pm til 5am GMT... signed up anyway.

  • sonicgoo #2 3 years ago

    Maybe those 'next-gen' consoles aren't that well suited for MMOs after all?

  • urban #3 3 years ago

    /doubts they'll accept him on windows 7

  • mkreku #4 3 years ago

    World of Warcraft could easily run on PS3/Xbox 360. But how would the interface work? And I'm pretty sure Blizzard doesn't want to share their mega-cake with either Sony or Microsoft.

  • spammage #5 3 years ago

    Most people who play MMO's do so on their PC. Due to the complexity and keyboard reliance of the MMO genre most that are popular in the PC arena won't be a good fit for console / joypad.

    Imagine healing / decursing / moving at the same time on a joypad? A very base example but not one that you can solve easily.

  • TriggerHippie #6 3 years ago

    I played FFXI quite happily on a ps2 with a usb keyboard and a gamepad. The control thing just doesnt hold water.

  • sonicgoo #7 3 years ago

    I don't think the console manufacturers will want to be seen selling their machines with keyboard and mouse. That would make them look like expensive PCs that people only buy for their exclusives. They have to keep pretending they're different or they're done for.

  • Yeevle #8 3 years ago

    Doesn't seem to be blocking it yet.