Marking the fifth demo to arrive in the Xbox Live Marketplace this week, a 839MB sample of TimeGate's sci-fi FPS Section 8 is now available for Xbox Live Gold members. The full game is expected to hit retailers in PC and Xbox 360 form come September 1. Should the demo stick with the traditional one week of Xbox Live Gold exclusivity, those with free Xbox Live Silver accounts will be able to download it next Fiday, August 28.

A new trailer for TimeGate Studios' shooter Section 8 introduces its concept of 'dynamic combat missions,' objectives and scenarios created on the fly in multiplayer.

You'll also get to ogle varied turrets and vehicles available for deployment when Section 8 arrives September 1 on PC and Xbox 360--with the PC able to host Xbox servers.

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TimeGate Studios today announced that its upcoming shooter Section 8 will allow players to host Xbox 360 servers on PCs.

The servers will support up to 32 Xbox players at once, resulting in one of the larger Xbox 360 multiplayer shooters. Without a dedicated server, Section 8 only supports 16 players on the console.

On the PC side, running the game on a dedicated server will allow for 40 players, with the max knocked down to 32 when moving to peer-to-peer.

Section 8's multiplayer component is an ambitious team-based game that's receiving comparisons to Tribes--which is quite a compliment. Might be worth checking out.

"You don't get into Section 8 easily," says TimeGate Studios creative director Phillip Morales. "It's a very rigorous selection process. Nobody is just picked to go into the powered armour suits."

Something tells me this premise might momentarily fall apart in the tutorial, as the new, rigorously selected players struggle to shoot a frog. But eventually players will "rise in the ranks," uncover the "true motivation" for the war, and probably teabag some mechs in multiplayer. You know how those professional Section 8 guys operate.

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A new trailer for TimeGate's shooter Section 8 shows power armour floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee, and calling in vehicle airdrops like elite futuristic infantry.

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Section 8 lands on PC and Xbox 360 in August, published by SouthPeak Interactive.

TimeGate's shooter based around a squad of futuristic dropship soldiers has always been intriguing from a conceptual standpoint, and these new screenshots featuring beefy mechanized armor do little to change that.

The game--set to feature a standard campaign and a large-scale multiplayer component--is scheduled for release this August on PC and Xbox 360.

Developer TimeGate today confirmed with Shacknews that it has settled the lawsuit against Paramount Digital Entertainment and Paramount Pictures over "Section 8."

Filed in early April, the lawsuit saw TimeGate allege that Paramount infringed on its "Section 8" trademark with an "interactive web series," announced just days after Paramount cancelled a meeting to see TimeGate's unrelated Section 8 video game.

The suit was dismissed without prejudice--meaning that TimeGate retains the option to re-file at a later date--after Paramount agreed to not use the "Section 8" moniker for its web series. It's the second such lawsuit and victory for TimeGate. Last year, TimeGate took ABC to court over the network's plans to make a sci-fi show titled "Section 8."

Under development since 2005, TimeGate's "intense sci-fi first-person shooter" Section 8 is currently slated to drop on PC and "next-gen console platforms" in late 2009.

Kohan developer TimeGate has filed suit against Paramount Digital Entertainment and Paramount Pictures over the title of its upcoming game "Section 8," according to a Team Xbox report. TimeGate apparently alleges in the lawsuit that Paramount illegally used the title of "Section 8" for an "interactive web series." TimeGate also points out that Paramount announced the web series just three days after cancelling a meeting to play TimeGate's Section 8.

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A new trailer and some new screenshots of TimeGate's drop-soldier-starring first person shooter Section 8 have arrived, providing a glimpse at the PC version. Now published by SouthPeak, which acquired former publisher Gamecock, Section 8 is due later this year on PC and Xbox 360.

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TimeGate Studios has released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming first-person shooter Section 8, currently slated for a 2009 release.

The game has been in development for quite some time, dating back as far as TimeGate's early 2005 announcement that it planned to license Epic's Unreal Engine 3 for use in an upcoming title. Section 8 is set for release on the PC and "next-generation consoles", which likely means the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Gamecock will be publishing Kohan developer TimeGate Studios upcoming first person shooter, Section 8. Slated for a 2009 release, the game is in development for unspecificed platforms.

First announced in 2005, Section 8 faded from view as TimeGate focused on last year's F.E.A.R. expansion pack, Extraction Point. Earlier this year, the company revealed it was working on three games--two FPS projects and an MMO--to be unveiled throughout 2007.

"Section 8 is our most ambitious project to date," said TimeGate CEO and president Adel Chaveleh, "and it's really exciting to have the full support of our publisher to deliver the absolute best game possible."

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A while back we mentioned that TimeGate Studios had licensed the Unreal Engine 3, though at the time it wasn't mentioned what kind of project they would use it for. GameSpy is now reporting the strategy game developer is moving into the first person shooter market with an action game called Section 8.

The game's title refers to an elite squad of powered armor infantry that serve as the focus of the single-player content. The squad gets its nickname because of its penchant for taking on suicide missions that no one else will tackle.
Chaveleh said that even though the studio is known for its strategy games, it wants to bring that experience to the FPS genre. "This title will be, at its heart, an action-packed FPS. There will be new innovations and elements from strategic titles added to the mix, but the focus is definitely large-scale FPS gameplay," he said. "Everyone at TimeGate loves the FPS genre and we have always wanted to put our trademark 'spin' on that type of game."

The game will be released on PC and next-gen systems, though no release date is mentioned.