Last night we posted a version of the Halo: Reach multiplayer video that leaked out a tad early, but now that it's official Bungie has a few more details about it.

Due out this spring for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, Blur is a like Project Gotham Racing meets Mario Kart... if they two had a baby in the 70s.

And we're giving out spots for the March 8 beta for the flashy racer right here, right now.

But first, a couple of very important things you need to know:

Plenty of Fileplanet subscribers tipped us to a solicitation that went out overnight, inviting them to "exclusive access into a highly classified Xbox 360 beta event!" beginning March 1. Those who have signed up tell us it is for Blur.

When Halo 3 hit in the fall of 2007 there were celebrations, sick days and sales records broken. Two years later, when Halo sequel ODST made it into stores it couldn't match its predecessor's first day sales in two weeks.

So I asked the Bungie folks, is Halo Reach going to be more like a Halo 3 or a Halo ODST?

Hell, it's about time... to start playing some StarCraft II! Blizzard has announced that the closed beta test for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is officially a go, with invitations going out to "thousands of gamers." Yeah, check your e-mail!

Blizzard has revealed the real minimum PC requirements for playing in the StarCraft II beta test, and while not quite as low as the imaginary ones we posted last month, they're still relatively modest.

Bizarre Creations' luminescent racing video game Blur, its first title for owner Activision, will be getting a beta test in March, the game's publisher announced today, giving drivers a chance to take it for spin in advance of its release.

Blizzard has released the required and recommended PC system specifications needed to participate in the StarCraft II beta test. Can your system handle the new Zerg Rush?

Having trouble overclocking your Nvidia-based graphics card? If so, you may want to give the company's just-released GeForce 196.34 beta drivers a whirl. According to Nvidia, the latest releas fixes a bug with v196.21 that prohibited GPU overclocking, so you should be good to go.

Zipper Interactive compiled its final batch of statistics for the MAG beta, finding which among the three factions in the MMO shooter was the most popular among more than a million people downloading the beta.