Hello,
you can read both here.

Dev Diary #11
Beta Applications Form

Also let me to post first link to gameplay :)

There are some screenshots, to show you development progress and bugs fixing. This sentence is interesting:

And as part of a larger design progress of monster lairs, we now also show the more difficult lairs with the red light.

So, what difficulty they will be? Beasts only or any other nasty suprises? This leave us with questions only, for now :D