ADVISORY/Multitude Launches Final FireTeam Beta Test; Phone and Internet Orders for Limited Beta Kits Begin Monday, October 12th.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Special Game Tester A game tester analyzes video games to document software defects as part of a quality control process in video game development. While popularized as a dream job for gamers, interactive entertainment software testing is a highly technical field requiring computing expertise, Incentives to Provide Substantial Discount off the Game's Final Purchase Price WHAT: To initiate its final Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the phase for FireTeam(TM), Multitude is providing gamers with a special offer: the first 3,500 players to purchase Limited Beta kits containing a Multitude-branded NC-65 GameWare(TM) headset Headphones combined with a microphone. Used in call centers and by people in telephone-intensive jobs, headsets provide the equivalent functionality of a telephone handset with hands-free operation. Many people use headsets at the computer so they can converse and type comfortably. and a FireTeam Beta CD for $19.95 (plus S&H) will be eligible to buy the final, unlimited play version of FireTeam (when it is available later this year) for just $19.95. That's a substantial discount off the regular, full price of $59.95. WHEN: Multitude will begin taking orders for its Limited Beta kits beginning Monday, October 12th. This special offer will be valid through mid-to-late November, or until all 3,500 Beta slots are filled. Orders will be fulfilled ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. within two-to-four weeks. WHERE: FireTeam Limited Beta kits can be purchased by calling Multitude's toll-free 888 number (888-689-TEAM), (International players must phone 510-583-6882) or through "FT Co", Multitude's online store (http://www.fireteam.com/store/). -0- About FireTeam FireTeam is a revolutionary online-only game that brings intense, combat-based, team action and real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. over-the-Internet (TeamTalk(TM)) voice communication to thousands of Internet game players. The game will be available in December Direct-to-Customers for $59.95. The FireTeam package includes a game CD, a Multitude-branded GameWare(TM) headset from Andrea Electronics' and free, unlimited gameplay
Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. Proper use is coupled with reference to "what the player does". . A retail version of FireTeam is expected early next year. |
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