FPS-RTS Natural Selection 2's long gestation will end this summer, when Unknown Worlds' multiplayer evolve 'em up launches for PC, Mac and Linux. The announcement came alongside a huge patch updating its pre-order beta build with a few fine features from the original Half-Life mod that'd been missing until now--jetpacks and the alien Onos class.

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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 Bulletstorm, Captain America: Super Soldier, Major League Baseball 2K11, Fight Night Champion, Total War: Shogun 2, Operation Flashpoint: Red River, Champions Online, Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, Mortal Kombat, Valet Parking 1989, Shift 2 Unleashed, MotorStorm Apocalypse, Radiant Historia, SEGA Genesis Classic Collection Gold Edition, Natural Selection 2, Love & Order, Vindictus, Top Shot Arcade, and Virtua Tennis 4. Read more »

Indie developer Unknown Worlds has been inspired by the flurry of sales around the internet and has decided to get in on the action themselves.

"In light of all the awesome sales happening for games all over the net, we thought we should spread some holiday cheer too," the dev's official site says. From now until an undisclosed time, anyone who purchases a copy of the team's upcoming (and anticipated) first-person shooter Natural Selection 2 will receive a second copy for free. Read more »

Following a streak of short teaser trailers for Natural Selection 2, indie developer Unknown Worlds has released a more-conventional trailer for the commercial sequel to its outstanding Half-Life RTS-FPS hybrid mod, showing off the beta build.

The closed beta for Unknown Worlds Entertainment's mod-turned-game Natural Selection 2 will be kicking off tomorrow with access being granted to the first 10,000 pre-order customers, reports Joystiq. Those that have already pre-ordered are already included.

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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 new media for Epic Mickey, NBA 2K11, Rapala Pro Bass Fishing, Medal of Honor, Vanquish, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, Natural Selection 2, Vindictus, Cosmo Fighters, Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition, EA Sports MMA, and screens from the upcoming "Undead Nightmare" DLC for Red Dead Redemption. Read more »

Game Director Charlie "Flayra" Cleveland announced in a blog post that the playable alpha for Natural Selection 2 will release through Steam on Monday, July 26. Getting in is easy; everyone who pre-ordered the Special Edition of the game gets to play. Most everyone should be covered as Cleveland notes that a whopping 90% of the community has already done that. But if you've been on the fence, it's time to make the call. Once the Alpha starts, the door closes on Special Edition pre-orders, alpha access, and the special all black marine armor.

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Answering the question no one dared ask, independent developer Unknown Worlds has revealed exactly how the Gorge--"the main builder/healer class" of the Kharaa in Natural Selection 2's asymmetrical multiplayer mode--and its stubby legs handle stairs.

Those who pre-order Natural Selection 2 will be able to activate a Steam copy of the indie PC sci-fi FPS-RTS hybrid with their key, developer Unknown Worlds has confirmed with Valve.

The news is celebrated with a single fresh screenshot showing a gaggle of lerks in flight. Read more »

Unknown Worlds Entertainment sends along a brand-new trailer for its mod-turned-series Natural Selection 2, which is slated for release sometime this year.

In this video, we meet the Lerk, which seems to fly and shoot spiny-things at unsuspecting space marines. A staple to any infesting alien horde.

Indie developer Unknown Worlds has released a little Natural Selection 2 pre-alpha gameplay footage, giving a look at the current state of its PC sci-fi RTS-FPS hybrid.

The pre-alpha footage--and do remember that it is pre-alpha--comes in celebration of being voted 'Indie Game of the Year' at modding and indie hub ModDB and follows a successful discount bundle promotion with Wolfire Games' rabbity 'Overgrowth.' Read more »

Earlier in the month, we reported on the 'Organic Indie Preorder Pack.' This developer-driven effort bundles preorders for Unknown Worlds' Natural Selection 2 Special Edition and developer Wolfire Games' Overgrowth into a "buy one, get one free" deal. Wolfire Games has since released some postmortem information about the sale on its official blog.

Overall, Wolfire feels the sale achieved better results than expected, noting that more preorders were sold during that week than in the entirety of the previous year. Unlike most other digitally-distributed bundles, which often have to pay a cut of each sale to the distributor, all of the preorder proceeds were split evenly between Wolfire and Unknown Worlds. Read more »

Update: Our five random winners--Jer9Carver, Laaaz, thecatinthehat, destro- and cerealSAM2--have been notified via Shackmessage, meaning the lot of you are now free to buy the bundle without concern. Remember, it's only available until January 11.

Original: Indie developers Wolfire Games and Unknown Worlds have joined forces to offer 40% off pre-orders of their respective games Overgrowth and the Natural Selection 2 Special Edition in a $40 Organic Indie Pre-order Pack. Read more »

The true scares of Halloween 2002 came not from monster movie marathons, haunted houses or college dorm parties but a multiplayer Half-Life FPS-RTS hybrid mod named Natural Selection, released that night by Unknown Worlds. Low-tech space marines and bestial aliens shrieked and spat out their trick-or-treated goodies in fright as inter-species war with terrifying tones of the movie Aliens raged across derelict complexes among distant stars.

A solid real-time strategy lay on top of the action, with both sides vying for control of key map points including the resource nodes which paid for structures and upgrades. While Frontiersmen served under a commander who essentially played a top-down RTS, the alien Kharaa were ruled by consensus and chose their own upgrades and classes. Read more »

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of its Half-Life multiplayer mod Natural Selection, independent developer

Unknown Worlds Entertainment today issued the first screenshots from its impending standalone sequel Natural Selection 2.