The open beta for GarageGames' online shooter Fallen Empire: Legions, a spiritual sequel to Starsiege: Tribes, has launched on web portal InstantAction.com.

Prospective beta testers need only sign up for a free InstantAction account in order to get in on the action.

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GarageGames today released a new trailer for its web-based spiritual sequel to Tribes, Fallen Empire: Legions.

For more details on the online FPS, check out our fresh hands-on impressions.

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Much like its confounding two-part title, Fallen Empire: Legions really consists of a combination of two separate elements.

On the one hand, GarageGames has fashioned an accessible time waster, the next generation of Flash-like gaming. It runs in a web browser, looks great for it, and can be played and quit in the span of a coffee break.

On the other hand, Fallen Empire is a hardcore online shooter, a game any Starsiege: Tribes fan will immediately recognize. It has chainguns, large maps, and is entirely centered around jetpack-based flight combat. Read more »

Update: The response from GarageGames now indicates that the beta program is now nearing its limit of players due to "unforeseen demand." Thanks to Shacker Xevo for the tip.

Original Story: Independent developer GarageGames is currently accepting beta applications for its multiplayer shooter Fallen Empire: Legions (PC), with the next round set to begin "in this coming week." Read more »

style="border: medium none ;">GarageGames has asked us to remind everyone that voting for the second wave of the Shacknews Fallen Empire: Legions Photoshop contest ends today.

As with the first wave, five winners will receive access to the closed beta for the Tribes spiritual sequel. The beta is currently underway for select InstantAction users, and is expanding every week. Read more »

Independent developer GarageGames has clarified a number of details about the beta test for Fallen Empire: Legions (PC), the Starsiege: Tribes spiritual sequel that will someday debut on the company's web-based InstantAction platform.

With the multiplayer title currently in a closed beta, the company will begin to add roughly 100 InstantAction users to the test every few days in order to increase load and feedback. Read more »

style="border: medium none ;">When a single game is played compulsively to perhaps unhealthy quantities, your brain can be so monomaniacally focused on that one thing as to where glimpses of it infiltrate real life. We asked you to take these images--provided by the fine folks at GarageGames--and insert them into the day's current events. At stake are five entries for the Fallen Empire: Legions private beta, which should still have a few weeks to go before being open to the public. Read more »

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Update: Since the responses to this have been so great, we've decided to extend the contest a day until 11:59PM PST on Wednesday, and add a little something to it. Not only will the Shackstaff pick their favorite five, but all the results will be posted to the InstantAction web site for additional public voting. The top five of those who haven't already won beta access will also receive keys. Those who win beta access are guaranteed at least two weeks of exclusive play before public access opens up. Read more »

"The first thing we did actually was emulate TRIBES, pretty much exactly," said Fallen Empire: Legions project director Tim Aste. "We got a prototype up and running, and it just wasn't working. Something was off."

GarageGames designer, Fallen Empires: Legion project lead, and Shacknews regular Tim Aste sent along some footage of his team's team-based shooter tonight, straight from the GDC show floor.

Grenade launchers, laser rifles, and all manner of Tribes-like weapons and combat are shown off.

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A torrent of details on the Starsiege: TRIBES spiritual sequel Fallen Empires: Legion were unveiled today, along with some brand-new screenshots.

GarageGames representative Bill Linn told Shacknews that the web and team-based online shooter is being developed under a mod-like rolling release philosophy. Read more »

A new alpha-level video has surfaced from the upcoming web-based GarageGames title Fallen Empire: Legions, a game widely seen as a spiritual sequel to the revolutionary online shooter Starsiege: Tribes.

For more details on the game, check out our recent interview with GarageGames CEO Josh Williams and Fallen Empire project director Tim Aste. Read more »

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Though GarageGames does not hold the rights to create another entry in the beloved Tribes series, its latest project, Fallen Empires: Legion, is about as close to a sequel as the gaming populace is going to get.

"We're not doing a real successor to Tribes," project director Tim Aste explained to Shacknews in a comprehensive interview. "If we succeed in having the same sort of spirit of innovation and focus on fun gameplay [as Tribes and other games], then that's an accomplishment we'll all feel proud of." Read more »

If the crew at GarageGames had a nickel for every time the phrase "Tribes-like" was used to describe their new online, team-based FPS venture, they probably wouldn't need to release the game.

After all, the company was founded by former members of Dynamix, the developer which spawned Starsiege: Tribes--a game so ahead of its time in the multiplayer arena that it has yet to be equaled in many respects. Read more »