I somehow missed this last week, while dealing with the approaching holiday and massive blizzard: God of War 2 is officially beta.

Cory Barlog reports on his blog that the game went beta on Dec. 22 and that they burned a bunch of discs to send home with the development team over their holiday break so they could play it.

Barlog goes on to dispel the rumor that the delay in the game was so they could add more levels:

As for the idea that we pushed back so why don't we add some levels...we pushed back to make sure everything we have now is as tight and clean and fun as it can be. We are using that extra time to make the game solid not to add more stuff to it and release a buggy game. So no luck on that....and for the special edition...I think it would take way more than a few weeks to do that so I don't see that happening right away.

The demo is still planned for January. I hope they decide to put in on the Playstation Store as well. I know this is a PS2 game, but tons of people will be playing it on their PS3s. Brian Crecente

WE MADE BETA BITCHES!!!! [Cory Barlog]

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