Games Workshop and Cyanide Studio announce they are now offering an open beta of Blood Bowl: Star Coach, on Steam, offering early access to the Blood Bowl spinoff they're creating for Windows, OS X, and tablets. This is a free-to-play game, and they plan to reward testers with some in-game space bux as a thank you. Here's word:

To thank the first players for their contribution to this Beta, Cyanide will offer a pack of Cyans, usable in-game when Blood Bowl®: Star Coach™ is officially launched. Blood Bowl®: Star Coach™ is a tactical, free-to-play game, in which the player is placed at the head of blood thirstry, glory hunting football team. Dwarfs, elves, humans and a host of other fantasy creatures will be your keys to victory. It's up to the coach to create his team and to set up the various defense and offence tactics. That done, there's no relaxing as matches are played in a no-holds-barred atmosphere with little guarantee that players will escape unscathed. Fortunately, a replay mode allows the coach to understand his tactical errors and to pinpoint strategies worth repeating. It’s a new game whose aim is to create a hitherto unpublished experience which mixes team management and the Blood Bowl world.