We'll get back on the news train soon. Lots has happened since PAX (lots of great feedback on Skirmish, gun play, etc) and there's plenty to show.
I will give you some, unfortunately vague, news. We are planning to do a closed beta a few months from now. We currently have a small closed alpha going on. Once we have everything in place and we're comfortable with where things are at - we'll start bringing in lots more people. For RO2/RS1 we had betas just weeks before release - giving us little to no time to change things based on feedback.
EDIT: I realize I didn't finish this post.
I mention how things were done in the past as our intention is to learn from those experiences and do something better. We'll do a beta months before release this time, instead of weeks.