We've been receiving reports for the last few days that a Halo Wars alpha is floating around on Xbox Live. Now, thanks to 360Sync, we have picture proof of its existence. For whatever reason, the alpha has the title "Sway," though it's clearly the Halo Wars alpha according to the status message underneath. What does this mean to the common gamer? Well, not much really. Keeping in mind that an alpha test can precede a final product by many, many months -- the Halo 3 beta came out four months before the final release -- this doesn't mean we're that much closer to seeing Halo Wars hit the shelves. Still, who knows, maybe a public beta is in the works for Halo Wars. At the very least we should have a demo to look forward to. In the meantime, we'll just have to be jealous of those lucky alpha testers.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/04/18/halo-wars-alpha-spotted-on-xbox-live/
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Since the game's clearly complete enough for testing, I'd put my money on a public beta in a few months. I really don't know what to make of this game--I love Halo but can never get into RTS' for the life of me. It does look quite fun and authentic to the series, so I'll definitely give it a try so I can get some backstory on the Halo-verse.
