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Fancy being one of the first people playing ACR? Yeah you do!

We’ve teamed up with Eutechnyx to giveaway 100 keys for the amazing ACR Beta, which is already underway.

Auto Club Revolution is a free-to-play online racing game and car community built in collaboration with the motor industry. Featuring officially licensed cars from over 50 of the world’s leading motor manufacturers, it delivers a console quality racing experience to the free-to-play market while providing a social platform for owning, customising and enjoying cars online. The game’s front end is web-based, creating a powerful and flexible social platform for communities of car enthusiasts and racing fans to interact with each other and their favourite motoring brands.

Follow this link to claim your code now: http://www.thirteen1.com/auto-club-revolution-closed-beta-key-giveaway/

EA’s launched a Mass Effect 3 Facebook game that rewards Xbox 360 players with Avatar gear and early demo access.

Mass Effect 3: Mission Command has you sending your similarly gear-hungry mates on various “missions” that will help you unlock Xbox Live Avatar items, add-ons, and more.

According to a promotional invite, “your decisions will determine the rewards.” The more you use the Facebook app, the more chances you’ll have to earn a “custom Paragon or Renegade Xbox 360 with Kinect.”

Although things are still far quieter than we’d like on the Half-Life front, Valve is continuing to toil away at new content for its insanely popular multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2.

New hat? New hat?
According to a short post on the TF2 Blog, the Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead developer is working on a “secret project… for 2012.”

Before you dismiss this as just another new hat or something equally insignificant, Valve has said “it isn’t a hat, it isn’t a map.” Beyond that, all it is saying is “it’s really cool”.

Take-Two assured investors in a financials call today that development of Grand Theft Auto V is “making great progress”, despite staying well away from determining a window of release.

Analysts expect Grand Theft Auto 5 to launch in Take-Two’s upcoming financial year – ending March 31, 2013 – despite an increasingly crowded release schedule for the publisher, but the firm chose not to address talks of a release date during today’s call.

Be among the first people to play TERA when Frogster launch their special Sneak Peek beta this weekend!

We’ve teamed up with Frogster to giveaway 150 keys for the exciting TERA Sneek Peek beta weekend, which runs on Saturday February 4th and Sunday February 5th from 3pm to midnight each day (CET).

The Sneak Peek will let you experience the ‘true action combat’ focused MMO game all the way up to level 22, and winning a key through Thirteen1 couldn’t be any easier.

We’ll be releasing batches of 10 codes at random intervals between now and Saturday evening. Simply follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Thirteen1Mag) and/or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/GamesMagazine) watch out for the tweets telling you when there are codes available. Clicking the unique link contained within each tweet will take you to a page with 10 unique beta codes for you to try your luck with. The codes on each page are being given away on a first come, first served basis.

To claim a key, you need to register at https://account.tera-europe.com/ , login into your account, click “Enter Code” and then insert the code. If successful, you will be able to download the TERA client and and start playing from Saturday, 3pm (CET)

We recommend having the code window open and ready for when the keys are released to avoid disappointment.

Good luck everybody!

En Masse Entertainment announced today that North American gamers can pre-order TERA Online right now for $49.95, which will automatically gain you early access to the game’s closed-beta sessions starting later this month.

What’s more is that pre-ordering will also enable you get into the official game with a week-long head-start, allowing you explore the land and create your ideal character before the game launches on May 1st.

Chris Lee, Vice President of Publishing at En Masse Entertainment commented in the press release, saying,“By breaking away from yesterday’s repetitive combat systems, and delivering real action, TERA is going to keep players on their toes and actively engaged in the game, the days of staring at your skill bar while pounding the Tab key are over. By requiring players to actively aim, dodge, and block, TERA’s action combat introduces real skill to MMO gameplay.”

EA has announced that it has sold 2m copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic since its release in December, attracting 1.7m active subscribers in the process.

Unique daily log-ins for the game stand at around 1m per day with an average playtime of approximately four hours per day. EA also highlighted the fact that outside of scheduled maintenance times its servers for the game have remained operational for 99.5 per cent of the time – that’s quite an achievement for a popular MMO.

“BioWare Austin has delivered a game that millions of people are going to be playing for a very long time,” EA labels president Frank Gibeau told investors.

“We nailed the launch. Adoption and daily usage among core MMO users are trending very favourably. More people are buying the game and subscribing. More content is on the way. Going forward, we have an ambitious plan to reach the broader market, the millions of Star Wars fans all over the world. You’ll be seeing that very soon.”

Sony has posted a net loss of 158 billion yen (£1.3 billion) for its third financial quarter ended December 31, 2011, compared to a profit of 72.3 billion yen (£559 million) a year ago.

The firm said sales fell 17.4 percent year-over-year to 1.82 trillion yen (£15 billion), “primarily due to the impact of the floods in Thailand, deterioration in market conditions in developed countries, and unfavourable foreign exchange rates”.

The Consumer Products and Services division – which houses Sony’s PlayStation, TV, video, digital imaging, PC and mobile businesses – recorded a quarterly operating loss of 85.7 billion yen (£710.3 million), versus a profit of 63.5 billion yen (£526.3 million) for the same period last year. Sales fell 24.4 percent to 996.5 billion yen (£8.3 billion)

Gala Networks Europe and Gala-Net announce more details about the next content expansion for Allods Online: Volume 5: Game of Gods, which will go live on the 15th February 2012 for all EU English and North American servers.

The news sheds light on Bards, the new player archetype, new PvP battlegrounds and a challenging new raid, which brings mounted combat to raiding for the first time in Allods Online history.

The brand new Bard archetype is a good support class that helps their party by performing powerful songs. These songs provide buffs and large augmentations to party stats such as increasing health and defense, boosting mana and energy regeneration and adding bonuses to damage.

Users can now browse store and interact with friends through iOS and Android

Valve has opened up its new Steam app to the public after completing the beta testing period launched last Thursday.

Steam customers can now access their accounts through iOS and Android, enabling them to browse game catalogues, interact with friends and keep up to date on new items to hit the store.

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said that app was released so the company could help meet customer demands and make the platform more accessible for users.