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Huxley, the sci-fi first person shooter MMO that was first announced over five years ago, is getting back together with its original developer Webzen. Big Download received an email today from Huxley's now former publisher NHN USA that it "has agreed to transfer future international publishing plans of Huxley: The Dystopia back to its developer, Webzen."

The statement added, "Both NHN USA and Webzen are internal divisions of NHN Corporation, and Webzen is currently revamping their international publishing platform. As part of this new global program, Webzen intends to self-publish Huxley. Our team at NHN USA fully support this decision after serious internal discussions between both divisions."

Announced in February 2005 as a retail game, the title has been delayed numerous times. In mid-2008 NHN USA announced that it would publish Huxley as a free-to-play game on its ijji.com web portal. The game actually went into closed beta testing in the summer of 2009 but since that test was completed NHN USA has only said that it was "working with the development team in Korea to iron out the kinks" in the game. There is still no word on when Huxley will actually be released.

It's a game that was first announced way back in 2005 but has still not officially launched. We are talking about Huxley, the sci-fi MMO first person shooter from Korean-based Webzen that was first planned to be a commercial retail game. Two years ago, it was announced that Huxley was being turned into a free-to-play online game to be published in the US by NHN USA and their ijji.com game portal.

Since that announcement the game's official launch has been pushed back even more but last summer the US version finally started its closed beta test. The closed beta ended last August but since then there's been no word at all on when Huxley's open beta might begin, much less when the game will finally and officially launch.

We contacted ijji.com's PR rep to get an update. They responded with this statement: "As you know, Huxley: The Dystopia went into CBT a few months back. ijji is listening to the fan feedback generated from CBT and taking it very seriously. Accordingly, they are in the process of taking a critical look at Huxley: The Dystopia and working with the development team in Korea to iron out the kinks."

The statement gave no indication at all on when we can expect Huxley to see the light of day so it looks like we will still have to wait a while longer before this title will finally be completed.

It's been a long, long time in coming but now folks (in the US and Canada anyway) can now finally play a version of the years-in-the-making sci-fi FPS MMO Huxley. Fileplanet is allowing anyone with free access to their service to download and play the "closed" beta for the game from NHN USA.

According to NHN, the "closed" beta is scheduled to run from now until Aug. 12. In addition to downloading the beta from Fileplanet you will still need to sign in over at the Huxley closed beta web page at ijji.com in order to play in the beta test. The final game is expected to officially open its doors to the US public sometime this fall.

[Via Massively]

It's been a long time coming but finally US residents can now sign up to beta test Huxley, the long-in-development sci-fi FPS MMO from developer Webzen. Sign-ups will last until May 20 and announcements on who will be picked will be made on May 27. The actual closed beta will last from June 3-14.

Meanwhile the game's official web site has added some new content while you wait for your beta test number to be picked. New screenshots and videos have been added to the site along with features like character descriptions, backstory info and a new forum for folks to chat about Huxley. So far there's no word on the game's released date.