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Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has been working for some time on Stargate Worlds, their sci-fi MMO based on the massive movie-TV series franchise from MGM. They have already used the current TV show Stargate Atlantis to promote the game via a contest that allowed one of the TV show's viewers to come to the developer and put his face in the game itself.

Now comes word that if you happen to sign up on the game's web site to get a free email newsletter, you can also put in a checkmark to sign up to play the upcoming beta test for Stargate Worlds (Make sure you check the right box at the bottom of the page or you will get spammed with third party emails). There's no word yet on when the beta test will begin so just consider this an pre-pre-announcement (whatever that might mean). At the moment the game is scheduled to launch this fall.

Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has been known for some time as the independently funded developer of the TV and movie based sci-fi MMO Stargate Worlds. However, the company has announced today that it has also decided to launch its own publishing brand, Firesky, to handle the publishing duties of the game as well as other unannounced titles it has been working on.

The games that Firesky will publish are described as being part of "SNAPs", which stands for Social Networks at Play. According to the press release issued this morning, SNAP games are meant to combine " . . . social interaction, economies and game play." The founders of Firesky hope to combine gaming with a true social community which they claim has not yet been done in most games of this genre. They even have their own term to describe it: "Project: Ascension". They are not yet ready to reveal exactly what "Project: Ascension" really is all about.

So is Firesky just a game publisher with a interesting press release or is the company going to evolve and release games that have something different? Only time will tell. Stargate Worlds is currently set for release by the end of 2008. Firesky currently has four studios working on a number of unnamed games which should be revealed in the coming months.