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Warcraft III beta sign-ups next month

Players interested in beta testing Blizzard's upcoming real-time strategy can sign up starting January 7.

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Blizzard has announced that it will hold beta sign-ups for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, its upcoming real-time strategy game, next month. The 24-hour sign-up period will begin on Monday, January 7, 2002 at 11:00pm PT and end on Tuesday, January 8 at 11:00pm. Blizzard will randomly select 5,000 beta testers from the pool of qualified applicants based on a variety of system configurations and locations. The beta test will be run on Battle.net, Blizzard's online game service, and it will let players control all four of the game's playable races

Blizzard also released a new screenshot from the game, which we have posted in the gallery above. Warcraft III is scheduled for release in mid-2002. For more information, take a look at our previous coverage of the game.

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