Get in on the Universe TODAY with the official BETA!

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<strong>Get in on the Universe TODAY with the official BETA!</strong> <img src="/images/PSU.jpg" alt="PSU" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - April 4 2006 - 12:36 PM ]</font>

<P align=center><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG alt="Phantasy Star Universe - ZOMG!" hspace=0 src="/uploads/ragol_psulogo.gif" align=baseline border=1></FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It seems to have come from nowhere, but 'the_importer' has gotten in contact with Ragol.co.uk, and <A href="http://www.ragol.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=842">Battle Angel</A> has <A href="http://www.ragol.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=9839">posted in our forums</A>&nbsp;to tell us of&nbsp;their sightings over on SEGA of Japan's 'SEGA Link', which states that there is a <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM> closed BETA - And it all starts today!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Being unannounced on the official <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM> website [<EM>Update: It has now been announced on the </EM><A href="http://phantasystaruniverse.com"><EM>official website</EM></A><EM>!</EM>], it seems as if it's only being offered to those who are current SEGA Link subscribers, though as the </FONT><A href="http://segalink.jp/trial/psucbt/"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">webpage</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> (</FONT><A href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&amp;trurl=http://segalink.jp/trial/psucbt/"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">English</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">) reads, SEGA are currently in the process of conducting an application period for the&nbsp;closed β test trial from <STRONG>April 4th - April 17th 2006. </STRONG>From those that apply, the BETA test will only be compromised of a maximum of 10,000 BETA testers. If SEGA recieve more then 10,000 applications (Which they will most likely get of course) then applicants will be drawn from a lottery style drawing (So keep those fingers crossed!). Therefore the actual BETA testing will start sometime shortly after April 17th.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The BETA test is for the Windows PC version of <EM>Universe</EM> as SEGA will not be conducting a BETA test on the PlayStation2 version of the game.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To take part in the BETA testing, you must be a resident of Japan, have a SEGA Link account (BETA Activation code is sent via. E-Mail through SEGA Link), and it also mentions a utilization charge... so not a free BETA maybe?</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Below are the recommended hardware specifications <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM> Closed β requires:</FONT></P><UL><LI><STRONG><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Operating System</FONT></STRONG> <UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or later)</FONT> <LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or later)</FONT></LI></UL><LI><STRONG><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">CPU</FONT></STRONG> <UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pentium 4 1.6GHz or above</FONT></LI></UL><LI><STRONG><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Memory</FONT></STRONG> <UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">256Mb or Above</FONT></LI></UL><LI><STRONG><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Graphics</FONT></STRONG> <UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NVIDIA GeForce4 or ATI RADEON 8500 or Above</FONT></LI></UL><LI><STRONG><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hard Disk Space</FONT></STRONG> <UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3Gb</FONT></LI></UL><LI><STRONG><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Internet Connection</FONT></STRONG> <UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Broadband</FONT></LI></UL><LI><STRONG><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Accessories</FONT></STRONG> <UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Keyboard or external gaming controllers are required</FONT></LI></UL></LI></UL><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It came from nowhere (Although sources do say that it has been publicly coming our way for the last five days!), but hopefully this means a release date is finally drawing nearer, and therefore a European release (And maybe BETA too?) not too long after!</FONT></P>