Unknown Worlds Entertainment (UWE) sent me an email today:

Hello NSPlayers!

You're getting this e-mail because at one point you either signed up on the Natural Selection forums, you pre-ordered NS2 (thank you!) or you otherwise indicated you are interested in Natural Selection 2. Well, today is a big day for us. After a long summer of work, we've moved into closed beta!

To celebrate, we've released a 2-minute movie showing the final alien in NS2 (the Fade) who is now fully playable. After years of wanting a proper "teleport" ability, he finally got it! Check it out here: http://www.naturalselection2.com

If you've already pre-ordered any edition of NS2, just run Steam and the beta will download automatically. Otherwise, if you want to try the Fade early and support Unknown Worlds, you can pre-order to get immediate access (http://www.naturalselection2.com). This closed beta is limited to an additional 10,000 people.

Thanks for your support - we really appreciate it.

-Charlie and the NS2 team

Yep, that's right! Pre-order the game right now, and you're almost guaranteed a closed-beta slot! You can test out everything as it's being implemented in the game, and get used to playing and understanding how the game works.

If you're interested in buying, I already have a server set up and running that we can play on! It'll be extremely fun playing with you guys!
http://www.naturalselection2.com/buy

I'm not that big of a fan. Although i've never really played it.. haha. What's it like?

You can eat the shit out of people.

Go check out NS2HD on youtube, You'll fall in love with it.

yo acid,
whens the release date?

Old Ode...

They haven't put that out yet, but it's over halfway done.