{"id":11392,"date":"2020-05-20T00:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2020-05-20T00:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:49:21","slug":"artifact-closed-beta-to-launch-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/artifact-closed-beta-to-launch-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Artifact 2.0 closed beta to launch next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve Corporation, the developer behind hit titles such as Half-Life, Counter-Strike<\/a> and the Dota series, announced on Monday that the invites for the upcoming Artifact beta are scheduled to start rolling out next week.<\/p>\n

The first version of Valve\u2019s collectable card game (CCG) entered closed beta in early 2018 and was first publicly playable at PAX West 2018 in April. The public beta was released in November 2018, only a week before the official launch on November 28. There was a lot of initial hype surrounding the game, but it proved to be a massive disaster and soon died out.<\/p>\n

The developers acknowledged that the beta phase for the original game, which was deemed one of the worst releases of the year, “started too late and was too short”. The poor reception of its initial release led Valve to fire the lead game designers, Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias, and put the project on hold.<\/p>\n

In March this year, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell announced that the company were rebooting Artifact, which was internally named ‘Artifact 2’. Since then, Valve have been slowly teasing changes that will come with the game’s second release, including new cards, an improved shop and various hero reworks.<\/p>\n

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Towards A Better Artifacthttps:\/\/t.co\/AsMgRdMonN<\/a><\/p>\n

— Artifact (@PlayArtifact) March 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n