Shortly before the last E3 we had surmised that Anthem , the highly anticipated new sci-fi title by BioWare, would have had a Beta before launch; now the game director of the game, Jonathan Warner, confirmed during the Gamescom that it will be in fact a real demo rather than a beta.

During an interview with Warner, the British site VG247 asked about beta learning in response that it will be rather a demo, coming just before the launch of the game.

Although in principle will not change much-we will still try the game in advance-the important difference between beta and demo is that the former is focused to gather feedback and issues on a game in development in order to fix things before the launch, while a demo is based on the final version (or nearly that) of the game to show us what we'll find when you buy it.

Warner has explained that there will also be Closed Alpha of the game that will have the aim of identifying any issues, but for now it is unclear how they will be made available, nor on what platforms. We will update you as soon as we know more!