Worldshift Beta Begins

Black Sea Studio’s RTS, Worldshift has entered its online closed beta phase today. What does this mean for you? Well if you are one of the lucky 5,000 players granted the right to participate in the beta you can head over to its sponsor, Fileplanet and get the necessary files. Apparently Black Sea Studio set out to combine the best of the RTS and MMO worlds to make for a truly innovative experience.
Read on for the game play description taken from Wikipedia:

In WorldShift, there are no technology trees featuring hundreds of upgrades; instead, WorldShift allows the players to discover and acquire a vast number of items and powerful relics that they can use to freely change their gameplay and preferred tactics and to attack their enemies. The players will gather items as they fight their opponents and as rewards for completing missions. There is a two-tiered unit system, with stronger officer units and then more common basic units. The official website says WorldShift will be centered around unique cooperative multiplayer gameplay.