If you’re one of the many who are eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to participate in the upcoming Battlefield 3 beta, then it looks as if you may not have to much longer to wait.

The subject of much frenzied speculation on the various BF3 forums, the multiplayer beta starting date is increasingly rumoured to be September 27th, with a closed 48 hour period before it becomes an open beta for the public on September 29th.

With a new BattleBlog due to be posted today – and the Tokyo Game Show coming up soon, where Sony will be exhibiting the game running on PlayStation 3 – an announcement confirming the date may be with us shortly. Battlefield 3′s release date of October 25th means that DICE will certainly have to launch the beta imminently to have enough time to reap all the necessary multiplayer data ahead of launch.