After receiving a thousand emails in a single day, Activision are currently swamped with applications by clans to join the ET:QW Closed Beta Test. Many thanks to all those that took the trouble to apply. We'll keep you posted if and when any further slots become available.

Those of you chewing your own ties and gloves in anticipation of ETQW's release may wish to pass a few careless moments reading some of our Developer Diaries.

Most recently, SD Tool-Smith Jared 'jRAD' Hefty took a brief moment off from making ETQW to write a diary about the making of the making of ETQW.

Prior to that, for those who didn't know, or didn't care, or didn't know that they didn't care, SD Senior Game Designer Edward 'Bongoboy' Stern wrote a developer diary for GameSpot about ETQW's backstory.

You can find previous SD dev diaries here, here and here, with more on the way soonish.