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.

Have an in-engine gander at Natural Selection 2, indie developer Unknown Worlds' commercial sequel to its positively sublime Half-Life mod, and some shiny concept art.