Global Agenda closed beta kicks off tomorrow, July 24

Global Agenda fans... it's almost here. The game's closed beta kicks off tomorrow, but a few lucky gamers in Hi-Rez's neighborhood actually got a head start today. Hi-Rez Studios Associate Producer Michal Adam just put up a dev blog over on MMORPG.com about the beta, and how some lucky gamers got first crack at the 'spy-fi' title.

She explains the Hi-Rez Studios tradition of N00b day "New Tester Day", where some players are invited out to the game studio to test out Global Agenda. It's part of the company's outreach to high schools and universities in the area. Michal writes, "Today's 'noob' group comprises individuals who live nearby and register through the Global Agenda website for today's testing session. I'm not sure when they signed up they knew they'd be the first to get onto Global Agenda's beta, and I guess I should stop calling them 'noobs' because they are the highest ranked players on our beta server!"
Michal also writes about the company's scrum-based development where they're deploying a new build of the game each day, and what's been involved with getting the game ready for the beta testers to swarm in tomorrow.

Global Agenda's closed beta testing will begin Friday, July 24th at 3pm EST (12pm PST) and last through Monday, July 27th at 6am EST (3am PST), for those willing to pull an all-nighter to squeeze a little more free play out of the beta.