Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-5264386-20130801122019/@comment-5264386-20131008095019

News Flash: Dark Souls II beta invites are being rolled out in North and South America, Europe and the UK at "Oct. 8 at 11:00 a.m. PDT". With more than 5,000 invitations being issued, it'll be a case of "first in, best dressed", with the redeemable code needed to download the client being disabled after the 5,000th invitee redeems their code.

Also, progress from the beta will not be transferrable to the retail version of Dark Souls II.