CCP Games recently released the newest version of their PlayStation 3 exclusive title Dust 514. The Codex version of the beta is now available free-to-play on PlayStation Network featuring a host of new improvements and additions including corporations that allow players to team up and play together, female characters for the gamer girls out there, tweaked weapons for more balance across all game types, skills that allow players to customize their character for battle and varied environments to keep the game's action fresh. All of this new content can be accessed right now, and players will earn double skill points in Dust 514 matches from now until November 8, 2012, so get them while they last!
Corporations: Just like in EVE Online players can join forces to communicate, strategize and eliminate opposing squads by joining and forming corporations in DUST 514
Female avatars: The variety of mercenary increases as the ability to create a female mercenary is added to the DUST 514 beta.
New Weapons: The expansive list of weapons and their abilities increases with the Codex update. Buffs to existing weapons are joined by new melee weapons and lethal new guns.
Skills: Earn and accrue skill points in battle to improve advantage on the battlefield.
Environments: The battlegrounds of DUST 514 are now as diverse as planets in New Eden.
Dust 514 is now available free-to-play in beta on PlayStation Network. Dust 514 is rated T by the ESRB for Blood & Violence. For more information on the game, check out the official Dust 514 website.
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