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After launching its closed beta test over a month ago, developer and publisher UTV True Games will begin the open beta phase for its free-to-play fantasy MMO Faxion Online on Thursday, March 10. The closed beta players for the game will experience a character wipe just before the game goes into open beta which means everyone will be on equal footing in the game on Thursday.

The open beta will also add some new features to Faxion Online including new territory control and new "multi-classing capabilities" for the player characters. UTV True Games officially launched its free-to-play action-RPG Mytheon earlier this month.

Last year publisher UTV True Games announced plans for Faxion Online, a fantasy themed free-to-play MMO that's being developed by the company's internal Austin, Texas studio. Today the company announced that closed beta testing of the game has now started on "Hell is Freezing Over Day" (Yes, there really is such a day celebrated on January 31).

The game starts off with your character apparently deal and entering the afterlife where he or she will visit the Seven Deadly Sins. In the game the Sins are physical locations rather than just characters. You will have to decided which side to fight on, Heaven or Hell, with a heavy emphasis on Player Vs Player combat. The game is expected to officially launch later in 2011.

It's been an interesting summer for UTV True Games. The free-to-play game publisher was supposed to launch Mytheon with developer Petroglyph in July but later it was revealed that Petroglyph was no longer developing the title and True Games had taken over with plans to launch the title pushed back to sometime in 2011. The company also revealed plans for another internally-developed game, Faxion Online.

Now comes word that True Games has plans to announced yet another MMO game sometime during GDC Online on October 5-8. The game will be shown to media who tour the company's Austin, Texas headquarters during the event.

The newly renamed publisher UTV True Games has just announced their first game that comes from their own internal game development studio in Austin, Texas. Titled Faxion Online, the fantasy MMO title will put players in the enternal conflict between Heaven and Hell itself.

The game's teaser web site has already gone live with a brief description of Faxion Online, where players will fight in competitive and PVP battles to gain and control territory in three worlds (Heaven, Hell and Limbo). The game's press release and some concept artwork also indicate that Faxion Online will also have a sense of humor about it. The game is scheduled to go into beta testing in late 2010.