There hasn't been very much news released on the Black Prophecy closed beta since it began, however Snowcrash released this little update today.

We are currently preparing a new wave of invitations, so things are moving forward as we speak.

As to when and how these invites will be sent out, is not known at this time. We will post any new information we get.

Gamigo have revealed the Black Prophecy trailer for E3 this year. It's pretty heavy on the gameplay footage, although with a lot of fast cuts. Looks like some of the footage is from closed beta battles, too. Bits and pieces of temporary text are still visible, but the feature demonstration is pretty impressive, although the combat itself looked perhaps a little slower than might be expected. Grab the trailer now. (WMV, 169mb)

Snowcrash has today released three screenshots from within beta, featuring him trying to shoot down some Genide pilots. Apparently PvP is working in beta at least! See them here.

Details on the modular shipbuilding system for Black Prophecy was released today, and this is probably the first major bit of game information released to date.

There is a lot of information in this post, but it looks like you start with a cockpit, and attach 2 engines, a shield generator and 2 wings. You then can attach 2 weapons to each wing (Giving a total of 4 weapons on your wings). Still need more firepower? Well there is still space left to attach a misslle launcher and a pair of missiles. (It's not how many missiles you can carry at once.)

The factor that decides whether you can fit a module to your ship is decided by your skill points, and we have been told there are 9 skills in total. One of them, is flight maneuvers and tactics, so I can only speculate the the others will be something like Cockpit Skill use, Wing Skill use, Engine Skill use, Shield Skill use. That still leaves 4 left, so throw in Weapon Skill use and Launcher Skill use. Maybe we will speculate a bit more in a future article.

What's more, it looks like you can build your own capital ships with the module system as well.

So make sure you check out the post here on the official forums, which is complete with a diagram and some screenshots as well.

There is a small update interview at MMORPG, covering a small bit about the closed beta, and a few other known facts about Black Prophecy. No news about when the next closed beta invite will be.

Make sure you check the interview out.

The latest Stellarvox Community Bulletin has been published, so make sure you check it out.

It has the usual summary of what has been quite a busy few months for ReaKKtor, including the forums moving to a new URL, a new Facebook page opening, Closed Beta starting, and also news on some new screenshots!

There isn't any news on the progress of Closed Beta, but there is a thread that is expected to get an update on the timing of the next wave of invites.

Just a few minutes ago, this exciting news was revealed on Gamigo's Facebook page.

It's the moment players have all been waiting for. gamigo and Reakktor Media have given the green light for closed beta testing of the space action MMOG “Black Prophecy”. The virtual universe is now open to a select crew of daring pilots looking to join the Genide or Tyi factions.

In the past few weeks, the Reakktor tea...m has been working very hard to get “Black Prophecy” ready go to into beta testing. The focus during the first phase of testing will be on server and program stability. For that reason, only a small group of about 100 players will have access to the game server. More fighter pilots will be recruited in time.

With less than 12 hours to the end of April, Reakktor have done it! Well done guys. Let's hope there are a few lucky people get an invite to Closed Beta.

Update: You can join the discussion on the official forums here and don't forgot to link your Gamigo account to your forum account.

Update: 22:22 This update from Snowcrash about Closed Beta Invites.

We have indeed sent a first small wave of invites. However, I am not going into detail as everything regarding the Closed Beta is strictly subject to the NDA. This also includes the information if you are actually in the Beta or not.

So if you got one, get testing. If you haven't there will be more invites soon.

The official forums have been migrated to Gamigo's website. All the old URL still work, but it's best to use the new URL - http://blackprophecy.gamigo.com/forum/

And before you can post, you need to link your Gamigo account to your Froum account, instructions are here, or after the break.

At the posting of this message, the official Black Prophecy forums have just gone down for the migration process. The current ETA is sometime this afternoon German time (GMT+2).

Once the forums are back you'll be able to find them at the existing URLs but the official link going forward will be http://forum.blackprophecy.gamigo.com, other changes will include the functionality to link your Black Prophecy Forum Account and Gamigo Games Customer Account, you will need to complete this process to regain your posting permissions. A guide to this procedure will be posted after the downtime.

Along with this additional functionality, it was hinted yesterday via the power of Snowcrash's magic 8 ball that Custom Avatars will be available, so use the downtime wisely by cracking out photoshop.

Of course you can also spend your time in the Prophecy Network's very own forum.

Here at the Prophecy Network we'll keep this post up to date with any information we can find related to the forum migration.

See you on the other side!

Many players have been querying whether their old beta registrations, made before the Reakktor/Gamigo deal were still valid. Snowcrash stated a while ago that the intention was to make a transfer possible. This has apparently been acheived - I have just recieved an email from KK offering the chance to transfer my beta registration, with the side note that this wasn't necessary if I had already registered with Gamigo.

I'm not sure over what timescale these invites are being sent out, however thought our readers would appreciate knowing about them and if you don't get one in the next day or so, it may be worth just registering with Gamigo.