Bleeding Edge beta pre-loads are live, including Steam - cruzobarresidde

Hellblade developer Ninja Theory is spreading its wings beyond sole-player, narrative-focused action games with Bleeding Inch, and it's delivery the community on for the hinge upon. Bleeding Edge has already had a technical alpha, and now it's heading out to a slightly wider audience with a closed beta session, set to kick off on Valentine's Day.

The Bleeding Edge closed beta begins happening February 14 at 10:00 PST / 13:00 Eastern Standard Time / 18:00 GMT, and concludes later on the weekend on February 17 at midnight Pacific Standard Time / 3:00 Eastern Standard Time / 8:00 GMT. Pre-loads are now live across all platforms, including Steam, Windows 10, and Xbox One – and some comfort and PC flavours of Xbox Lame Give-up the ghost.

The closed beta is available to those who've pre-rational the gamy or participated in the previous tech alpha – you'll undergo a Steam clean key for the exploratory if the last mentioned applies to you. You can also get in with Xbox Game Pass, though sadly that'll mean no Steam access – just the Xbox app or Windows Storehouse.

In that respect's no more NDA for the Beta, so you'll obtain to see plenty of footage from streamers flat if you're not participating directly. Since the closing test, the game's gotten an advanced combat instructor, additional cosmetics, a parry power, and more approachability features.

Ninja Theory International Relations and Security Network't going all-in happening multiplayer games, though – alongside the reveal of Project Mara last month, the studio detailed an all-inclusive plan for small, narrative-ambitious projects, many a of which wish focus on mental health, much like Hellblade.