The official website for Star Wars Battlefront is now accepting applications to participate in closed alpha testing of the upcoming Star Wars action game on Origin. Here's word, which does not offer any clues about how difficult it may be to get accepted: "Apply for your chance to join the Closed Alpha and help us prepare for the release of Star Wars™ Battlefront™ starting on November 17, 2015 in North America. Available for Origin on PC only, the purpose of the Star Wars Battlefront Closed Alpha is to perform a number of technical tests that will help the team at DICE as they continue the development of the game." MP1st has details from an email to prospective applicants saying that testing will begin on July 2nd after a day to preload, and they also have these system requirements, which only apply to this test:

• CPU: Quad Core CPU e.g. Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.8 GHz or AMD Phenom II x4 955 @ 3.2 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz
• RAM: 6 GB
• OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64-bit operating system required)
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970 with 2 GB of Video Memory