As promised, developer Gas Powered Games and publisher Stardock have launched the first phase of beta tests for their upcoming fantasy strategy-RPG game Demigod. People who pre-ordered the game before the beta test began were eligible to sign up. This first beta has been catagorized as more of an engine test; Stardock CEO Brad Wardell recently posted up screenshots of how the beta 1 test looks like.

Gas Powered and Stardock will release other phases of the Demigod beta in the next several months and again people who pre-order the game will get a chance to be added to those beta tests. The final release of Demigod is schedule for early 2009.