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Blackshot is a free-to-play online first-person shooter published by Outspark. The game is currently in closed beta with open beta coming soon. Go to the official website to sign up for a beta account.

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If you are like most of us, the economy's quick drop this fall may have left you with a lack of cash to pay for that new copy of Left 4 Dead or Far Cry 2. However if you want to play a first person shooter game for free and don't feel like paying for it there are actually quite a number of free-to-play titles out there that you can download and play right now.

Big Download has noticed a growing trend of first person shooter titles that are already out there, in beta testing or coming up in the near future that you can just download and play. Some of these games do have or will have premium fees or micro-transactions to get more content but all of them can be enjoyed for free without the need to pay a cent. We decided to do a quick round-up of just a few of the current and upcoming free-to-play FPS titles. And remember, the best things in life are free..or so we have been told.

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A couple of months ago we reported on plans to launch yet another free-to-play first person shooter. The Korean-developed game Blackshot is being published in the US by Outspark and is scheduled to be officially launched later this year. However, plans for a closed beta test have now been announced.

Sign-ups are now being taken for the closed beta on the game's official web site and the beta is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The beta will give its selected players access to four characters, 17 weapons, seven maps, three gameplay modes and over 30 types of armor. New screenshots from the game have also been released and we have reproduced them here.

You can add to the growing lists of hardcore free-to-play games the upcoming first person shooter title Blackshot. Published in the US by Outspark the game has some simple descriptions; "Powerful weapons, lifelike characters and gritty environments." There's also something called the "player-versus-enviroment" mode which sounds an awful lot like a single player campaign. Well that's all you really need to know right now isn't it?

Blackshot's official web site has a CGI trailer running ( with some typical SWAT-like members running and shooting) with word that the open beta for the game should launch "soon". More details about the game are supposed to be revealed in the coming weeks. The big question is whether Blackshot can compete with rival upcoming free-to-play shooter titles like id Software's Quake Live or EA's Battlefield Heroes.