Activision Is ‘Not Planning’ Black Ops Beta

Treyarch has shot down all of the buzzing rumours regarding a Call of Duty: Black Ops public beta release on the Xbox360 – or the PS3.

Speaking to the peeps over at CVG during a Black Ops multiplayer reveal in LA today, Treyarch community manager Josh Olin confirmed that Activision is not planning a public beta, and that current console trials are “internal only”.

“We’re already doing an internal beta with all sorts of Activision studios – thousands of people are participating in our beta,” Olin said.

“That’s the only formal beta that we’re planning at the moment. There were a lot of misconceptions, confusion and Google ads. There was some speculation that we’d be launching a public beta tonight – that’s not happening. The beta is internal only right now.”

He added: “Keeping it internal is very helpful for us. It allows us to move a lot faster on our builds, so if we want to change something we can easily push out a new build within the company to anyone who has one of these dev kits.

“Call of Duty is so much this big mainstream thing that everybody at Activision is playing this game.”

It’s a pity, but I guess we’re just going to have to wait until the November 9 release date to play it.