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If you were looking to start your journey to Ascension early, you’re in luck. A beta for Ascend: New Gods has been announced, and sign-ups begin today. The beta application page can be found here; all you have to do is fill out the form the you’re registered to be selected. You can increase your odds of getting in by referring your friends to the beta; the more friends you refer the bigger your chance of selection. The date the beta begins has yet to be announced, but Signal Studios has previously stated they were hoping to release the beta in April or May.

Ascend: New Gods is a huge single-player RPG that also has an important online component and puts the player in control of a Caos (a giant warrior). The game includes many staples of the RPG genre, including a vast land filled with dungeons, a large variety of enemies that come in many shapes and sizes and plenty of loot to collect. What sets the game apart is its multiplayer, which allows a player to see other players progressing through their own separate world. While players can’t effect each other directly, they will be able to use their powers to send either help or hindrance into each others’ worlds.

Once released, Ascend will be free-to-play. You can find out more from our E3 preview here.

If there’s one universal truth out there in the oft-quoted index of tidy idioms, it’s that, “there’s always a bigger fish.” The biggest kid on the block, shaking down his under-developed peers for the contents of a lunchbox, undoubtedly receives similar treatments the next street over, and so on. A fact that Ascend: New Gods, the upcoming free-to-play action-RPG illustrates all too well with a stable of monstrosities so dramatically scaled they could double for Russian nesting dolls.

It’s tough to really grasp just how varied the inhabitants of Ascend range, from insignificant specks underfoot to sentient towers, scraping the skies overhead. Our friends at PlayXBLA have chronicled this staggering evolution in chart-form, everyone’s favorite form, along with detailed information relative to the size of the protagonist, the Caos Warrior. Keeping in mind, Ascend: New Gods protagonist rises four-times the height of we puny humans, so, it’s all relative.

Everything you’ll encounter falls within six size categories, spanning the poles form “Tiny” to “Titan” with you and fellow players’ characters resting comfortably in the middle of the chain. The prospect of wading through ankle-high villagers as a benevolent guardian or gargantuan nightmare is enough to get the blood pumping. But it’s a two-way street, and that feeling of overwhelming superiority quickly evaporates when you’ve got to scale the trunk-like appendages of a lumbering titan. You can check out the detailed category breakdown in the full post.

Ascend: New Gods is expected to launch this year, with an open beta rumored to be happening in April or May. For more impressions, you can visit our E3 preview.

Source: PlayXBLA

Signal Studios President and Creative Director Douglass Robert Albright III was kind enough to take a break from eating dinner and making Call of Duty-inspired machine gun noises long enough to answer the question on the mind of at least one of the studio’s fans: when will Ascend New Gods‘ public beta go live? “We’re hoping for a beta sometime in April or May,” Albright states around the 1:30 mark of his studio’s latest “Ask the Team” video feature.

Hoping to confirm Albright’s remarks, XBLAFans Editor-in-Chief John laster tweeted at Signal’s official Twitter account and was informed that the creative director was indeed referring to the start of an Ascend beta this spring.

Ascend: New Gods is Signal’s latest project, an action title featuring asynchronous multiplayer scheduled to launch at some point later this year. We got the chance to give the game a try at last year’s Electronics Entertainment Expo. In just a few months, so will the public.

Source: Signal Studios