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While some games have attempted to merge the first person shooter genre with elements from RTS games (The Savage series, Command and Conquer: Renegade) none have been deemed a complete success. Today publisher Reality Gap officially launched Battleswarm: Field of Honor, a sci-fi themed free-to-play online game that was originally developed by Asian developer Gameworld Tech. The game itself has one side (the human solider) in a first person view point. They go up against the other (side the bug-like aliens) who have an RTS game play design.

On the occasion of today's official launch of Battleswarm, Big Download got a chance to ask some questions to Reality Gap's Chief Operating Office Mark Hood as he talks about the game, how Pong creator Nolan Bushnell is involved and more.

A few days ago USA Today had the scoop on Battleswarm: Field of Honor, a new sci-fi RTS-FPS hybrid game that's being designed by Pong creator and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. Today the company behind the game, Gameworld Tech, announced that the beta for Battleswarm has launched on their official web site.

The press announcement also comes with the first 'real' screenshots from the game (USA Today had a really tiny image in their first article). As you can see the game pits human soldiers against insect-like alien threats (a la Starship Troopers). Players who take on humans play in first or third person mode while players who take on the aliens control hundreds of alien units in a RTS mode. The game is free to play now but will officially launch in September with a micro-transaction business model.