Zombie Studios plans to use the sequel to Blacklight: Tango Down to experiment with a microtransaction-based sales model. Big Download reports that the sequel (titled simply "Blacklight" for now) will be free, and feature "premium content" for purchase in-game.

"The free-to-play model is something we've been interested in since we first began working with Korean publishers four years ago," explained CEO Mark Long. "It's exploding in China, growing fast in Europe and emerging here in Facebook and iOS games." The new sales model will come along with the usual tropes one expects from a sequel, like gameplay tweaks and new weapons. Long says he hopes that the free model allows the studio to respond to player feedback quicker. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

The last Filter before the weekend features Test Drive Unlimited 2, Splatterhouse, Blacklight: Tango Down, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Raving Rabbids Travel in Time, Medal of Honor, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, The Sims Medieval, Front Mission Evolved, and Faery: Legends of Avalon. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features media for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Lord of Arcana, GoldenEye 007 Wii, Battle of the Immortals, Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops, Kinect Sports, Vindictus, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, Def Jam Rapstar, Gods vs Humans, Okamiden, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, The Amazing Race, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, FIFA Manager 11, and Blacklight: Tango Down. Read more »

Zombie Studios and Ignition Entertainment's Blacklight: Tango Down will be released on the PlayStation Network on October 26 for $15 for US gamers. It will be released in the UK and Europe on November 3 for 10 pounds.

The PSN version will get some exclusive content and features, but the only announced improvement at this time is the ability to join games in progress. Like the Xbox 360 and PC releases, the PSN version will have "numerous multiplayer maps, seven game types, four co-op missions and literally trillions of weapon combinations." Read more »

Now that July is behind us and Xbox Live's 'Summer of Arcade' is in full-swing, it's a good a time as any to check out the initial sales figures for the various XBLA titles released over the past several weeks.

GamerBytes editor Ryan Langley has taken a look at Xbox Live Arcade Leaderboards for July to determine which games have been played the most since their respective release dates. It's worth noting that his figures are based on Leaderboard activity, so these sales-approximations only reflect those who've purchased and played on XBLA. Six new XBLA releases came out in July: Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, Blacklight: Tango Down, Deadliest Warrior: The Game, DeathSpank, Limbo, and Hydro Thunder Hurricane. Read more »

[Update: 12:15pm] An Ignition representative tells Shacknews that Blacklight: Tango Down will be available on Steam, Direct2Drive and Impulse at some point today.

[Original Story] Blacklight: Tango Down, the online-only first-person shooter from developer Zombie Studios, is now available for purchase and download on PC via Microsoft's Games for Windows Live platform [via BigDownload]. Read more »

This week's Xbox Live "Deal of the Week" discounts a set of action-focused Arcade titles, most down 50% from their original price. The Action Arcade promo (via MajorNelson) includes:

• Mega Man 10 - 400MS Points (50% off from 800MS Points / $10) Read more »

Although Major Nelson has listed the online-only shooter Blacklight: Tango Down for a July 7 release on the Xbox Live Arcade, an Ignition spokesperson confirmed to Shacknews that title has "not received a release date" and can only confirm the game is "coming soon." Blacklight: Tango Down is priced at 1200 MS points ($15). Read more »

Weapon customisation is the focus of a new developer diary for Zombie's Blacklight: Tango Down, revealing the multitude of options on offer in the downloadable shooter.

"About twenty-five different attributes" can be modified by customising guns with unlockable parts, from recoil and spread to reload and movement speed. There's also a "weapon tags" system of trinkets that grant small perks to the player. Read more »

E3 looms less than two weeks away but games already out get this week's show off to a big start. Jeff is away on vacation but EGM EIC Billy Berghammer returns to talk Metal Gear, Backbreaker, Red Dead Redemption, Alpha Protocol, and more in Whatcha Been Playin? with Garnett and Brian. Before getting into the Warning episodic gaming and immersion versus mechanics lead listener comments, along with the very first Weekend Confirmed one-act audio theater. Then the timer starts and attention turns to E3 speculations on whether 3D or motion controls will be the star of the show. And in the Front Page the news runs from rumors of multiplayer coming to the Mass Effect world to Activision launching an indie games competition.

Weekend Confirmed Ep. 11 - 06/04/2010 Read more »

Zombie's downloadable shooter Blacklight: Tango Down will feature co-op missions for up to four players, the developer revealed today.

The Unreal Engine 3-powered shooter's 'Black Ops' co-op missions will rate players as they battle The Order, ranking them on leaderboards and rewarding them with experience points. XP can be used to enhance characters and unlock more weapon customisation options. Read more »

Back in March, publisher Ignition blew the lid off the Blacklight, the first playable faction found in Zombie Studios' upcoming downloadable shooter Blacklight: Tango Down.

Now it's time for the second playable faction of the "science fact" game to get some time in the black light. Meet The Order, "an elite and secretive military organization." Read more »

Details on the upcoming downloadable shooter from Zombie Games and Ignition Entertainment, Blacklight: Tango Down (trailer), were revealed today along with some new screenshots.

The game is set in the near-future, which has been "overtaken by the exploding speed of technological progress and is left suffering from the unbridled failures that those advances create." Furthermore, "an ongoing viral epidemic ravages society and the military's drive to control and use of the virus as a weapon has only created more devastating strains." Read more »

The first video teaser for Zombie Studios' Blacklight: Tango Down, which Chris Faylor previewed almost a year ago, has been released along with new screenshots.

The game, a $15 downloadable FPS for the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, will be published by Ignition in summer 2010.

America's Army and Saw: The Video Game developer Zombie Studios today unveiled its latest project, a cross-medium "military action franchise" known as Blacklight.

The game is a squad-based first-person shooter, with Zombie Studios co-CEO Mark Long telling Shacknews that it's set in a "science fact" future. Zombie has been self-funding the game for nine months, but is in active discussions with publishers. Read more »