Battleborn is soon going to enter a period of closed beta at the end of the month. Because of that registrations are now open so you can sign up to take part, if you get chosen.

Of course, being a closed beta you can expect it not to be fully bug-free quite yet. That is the purpose of alphas and betas after all, testing while giving a few a taste of the game in its almost-finished state so they can hopefully whip up some excitement and interest among their friends when they’re allowed to speak freely of their time in-game.

To register you first need a SHiFT account, and obviously you must also agree to the game’s NDA. This prevents players from capturing gameplay footage, livestreaming, posting images, or publicly discussing the tests online so you’ll need to keep certain things close to your chest until it expires. You also need to meet the minimum spec requirements:

OS: Windows 7 x64-Bit or Later

Processor: Intel Core2 Extreme CPU Q6850/ AMD A8-3870k (Quad Core CPU’s)

Memory: 6 GB

Hard Disk Space: 10 GB free

Video Memory: 2 GB

Video Card: AMD HD 7700/ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or better, PhysX support

Sound: DirectX 11 Compliant

If you’re up for it, head here to sign up for the Battleborn closed beta and keep your fingers crossed you get access.

A few months back, Unknown Artifacts began popping up in various systems throughout the galaxy of Elite:Dangerous.  Some transmitted in morse code, others just seemed to sit there. The collective player base scratched their heads and set out to find out what, exactly, these artifacts were all about. The forum thread detailing commander’s efforts to decipher these artifacts is long, impressive and worth a read if you have some spare time.

To make a long story short however, it was revealed that while some were in fact morse code scans of nearby objects others retained there secrets. Until recently when a player by the name of Mike Juliett Kilo fed a pre-recorded unknown artefact signal into a scanner in his cargo and got back the following image:

To those not in the know, this is a wireframe depiction of the Vulture spacecraft, the ship which Kilo happened to be flying at the time. As he said to the official Elite Community site at the time: “I was prepared to see an alien face or Thargoid warship. I certainly didn’t expect to see a Vulture, especially as I was flying one at the time! It sent shivers down my spine.”

Thargoids are the alien race that has featured in some previous Elite games, notable for being insectoid and thouroughly in love with blowing things up.

Frontier, of course has remained coy on the entire matter, stating that the artifacts are only the beginning. Of what, we don’t know.

In a piece of news that’s sure to excite fans of the movie, on October 21st 2015 the DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future films will be made available as a playable car in Rocket League.

Really.

A game about cars playing football doesn’t exactly sound like the sort of game the DeLorean would be good for, but Rocket League is less about the car football and more about zipping around and flying through the air flipping over and over and getting into heated competition with your friends and fellow players so honestly, it fits for Rocket League.

Writing on the Playstation Blog, developers Psyonix revealed their joy at getting the iconic vehicle added to their game: “We used to fantasise and joke about having the DeLorean Time Machine in our game months before it even came out. We were all such huge Back to the Future fans here at Psyonix, that it was one of the few ‘Holy Grails’ we had hoped for besides having a hit game.”

They’ve worked hard to create the vehicle’s classic feel in game, with folding jet wheels and a rocket trail that resembles ‘burnt rubber’. The DLC will be made available soon for $1.99 or regional equivalent.

Divinity: Original Sin is getting its big Enhanced Edition soon, and a date has finally been announced. It’s coming out on October 27th.

The game will be free if you already own the game on PC, adding a whole bunch of things including controller support which will go down well with quite a few people. The same date does apply to just more than the PC version of the Enhanced Edition (it’s also releasing on the same day for Playstation 4 and Xbox One) but it is certainly the one that will see present PC owners magically receiving the update to their game without lifting a finger (unless you manually update).

Divinity’s sequel game meanwhile has been doing pretty well, raising four times the target on its Kickstarter campaign.

Announcing backwards compatibility was always going to be a good move for Microsoft and the Xbox One. Being able to play the last console’s games on the current-gen console keep players happy and makes them more likely to get your latest piece of hardware. Now Microsoft’s Phil Spencer has put forward the idea that he’d like to get 360 games working on PC as well.

Speaking with Gizmodo Brazil, Spencer said “[Xbox games on Xbox One is] something I want to do, but it is a matter of priority. I would love to have the ability to play Xbox 360 on PC at some point too, so we have different things we have to think about when we plan these things. But it would be great to have support for original Xbox games. So yes, I want it, but we have many other things we want to do as well.”

This would mean that disced 360 games would work on your gaming rig, as well as digital editions possibly being made available for download too. Given that Microsoft were all about integration of PC and console with Windows 10, this doesn’t surprise me too much.

At the very least, if it does happen there’ll be quite a few very happy gamers.