Hawken closed beta set for later this month

Publisher Meteor Entertainment has announced the closed beta dates for its upcoming free-to-play mech shooter Hawken.

The game will be in closed-beta state from October 26 until October 29. Players can sign up on the official website to register for a chance to participate in the four-day session.

According to creative director Khang Le, the development team at Adhesive Games had learned a great deal from feedback during the game's alpha phase. Meteor Entertainment CEO Mark Long added that the daily player count has been scaled up, and that server ping numbers have been improved.

Hawken is a free-to-play, first-person multiplayer-focused shooter, where players control a mech to defeat other mech pilots in regular deathmatch, team deathmatch, or a territory-capturing variant called missile silos mode. For more information, check out GameSpot's recent coverage.