Microsoft sends word that Asheron's Call, their massive online multiplayer RPG, will begin public beta testing next week, as the November issue of Computer Games magazine hits the newsstands, which will contain a beta copy of the game on the enclosed CD (the issue will be recognizable with Asheron's call the cover story). The beta will be playable for free over the MSN Gaming Zone. Word is that rather than a pared down version of the game, the beta will offer the entirety of Asheron's Call's 500 square mile virtual world.