Atari founder and Pong creator Nolan Bushnell has stayed busy over the years in the game industry and recently became one of the co-founders of Reality Gap, a microtransation-based game company that recently launched the open beta for a new casual fantasy MMO called Monato Esprit. Now Bushnell is getting his hands dirty on a more hardcore free-to-play game.

USA Today's game blog has the first word on that project, a sci-fi RTS-FPS hybrid called Battleswarm: Field of Honor. The article chats with Bushnell about the project which also has a tiny screenshot of the game itself (that's it above this post). Bushnell said he came up with the game as a way to play online with his five sons; all of whom are first person shooter fans. However he admits that his reaction time in playing FPS is not up to his sons so Battleswarm adds some RTS elements into the mix.

Bushnell, who describes the game as ""a mash-up between StarCraft and Starship Troopers" says microtransactions will be used to purchase upgrades with Bushnell saying, "There are a lot of things you can do for a nickel, dime or quarter." There's no word on when Battleswarm will officially launch.

[Via Blue's News]