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Last Wednesday, Activision and Treyarch announced details on how to sign up for the multiplayer beta for their upcoming World War II shooter, Call of Duty: World at War. Today you can finally get in on all the fragging fun.

Now up on FileFront, the Call of Duty: World at War beta installer is ready to be loaded onto your PC. Before downloading it, though, be sure to sign up for the beta by visiting the official website. If you happen to have preordered the PC version from GameStop, you should have already received a beta key. Once you're all ready, head over to FileFront, where you can get the installer by hitting this link or the badge below.

While the beta's downloading, you probably will want to make sure you're aware of the all the ins and outs of what it encompasses. We posted these details last week, but here they are again just in case you missed them:

• The beta gives you and service providers the option of hosting your own servers; however, dedicated servers will be Windows only for the duration of the beta. According to the website: "GSP's will be able to sell beta servers and put up as many dedicated servers as they'd like. All of this will function as if it were a regular multiplayer game."
• Registered users will receive a special key that will allow them to create a profile name and play the beta. This offer also includes people who sign up after the beta has already started.
• Your globally unique user name will be very important, because for the first time ever the PC version will be incorporating invites and your friends list so that the squad mechanics will work just like the console versions. Clan tags can also be added as a prefix.
• Just like with the Xbox 360 version of the Beta, all accounts, experience and friends lists will be deleted after the beta is concluded.

As always, after you have played around with it a bit, be sure and let us know what you thought of you experience in the comments section below.