Last week, Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley apparently let it slip to the Escapist's Greg Tito that the PlanetSide sequel may be coming out in March 2011. While his comments to Tito were nothing concrete, the team over at PlanetSide-Universe.com noticed that Smedley posted some very interesting PlanetSide Next news on his blog today:

"In other news - early next year we will have announcements about Planetside Next followed by a beta. I can say this - it's coming along awesome. I can also say that the first beta testers are going to be current Planetside subscribers. I've gotten a lot of email from current players offering to help test the game and we're going to take them up on it."

There's some solid PlanetSide Next news for you. Are you excited for the upcoming announcements and beta test?