Ubisoft announced earlier this week that R.U.S.E will be available for public beta testing through Steam from Tuesday the 9th of March.

We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that a R.U.S.E. PC Public Beta will be available on Steam on March 9th ! It will be available to all gamers with no need of a Steam key to activate it.

Steam users can pre-load the 2.4GB beta already.

Here's the Ubisoft press release in full an some more details of the R.U.S.E. Public Beta at Steam.