The always reliable folks at the PC game centric web site Rock Paper Shotgun have an interesting exclusive; the first hands-on impressions of Multiwinia, the upcoming multiplayer version of the strategy-sim game Darwinia from Introversion Software. The preview is a bit heavy on the screenshots and you have to scroll down the article some to get a lot of the info but it's still an excellent read.

While this preview was based on playing bots rather than actual humans on skirmish maps, it looks like Multiwinia is going to be a very fast paced action-oriented RTS game. There are several different gameplay modes planned (the preview was based on playing the King of the Hill mode) but it sound like the innovative folks at Introversion could have their most accessible game yet. Currently it's planned for release in September,