Wanna Stab Folks In The Neck? You'll Be Wanting Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Then.

How about exclusives within exclusives? Yeah, not so much. The Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood beta is an example of an exclusive within an exclusive — sure, it's cool for those of us batting for the Sony team that Ubisoft's made the beta locked to the PlayStation 3. The problem for US citizens, is that you'll have to preorder the game from Gamestop to get a code. Yargh.

The beta's set to begin on September 19th, a couple of months ahead of the games release. As far as we can tell, the beta is locked here in the UK too. Play.com appear to be the only retailer touting beta access here, so you'll probably have to head to their site to gain access to the multiplayer preview.

Ubisoft's yet to detail what the beta will consist of, but we assume it'll be a couple of maps and game-modes from the full game.