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This client installs the open beta for Alliance of Valiant Arms (A.V.A), a new free-to-play online shooter. Visit the official webpage for more information about the game and to sign up for an account.

"Alliance of Valiant Arms (A.V.A) provides heart-pumping fragging action in an Unreal Engine 3-based game. The modern warfare experience promises multi-player online gaming and twitch-based fast action first-person shooter (FPS) action, resulting in visceral, intense combat unlike any other. In A.V.A, war has broken out in modern Europe between the European Union (EU) and the Neo Russian Federation (NRF). As countries across the globe declare sides, the United States and China are locked in a politically fueled stalemate. When China folds and joins the ranks of the NRF, the US comes to the aid of the sieged EU. Tensions run high as the two factions square up for unprecedented blood-and-guts urban warfare."

Download Alliance of Valiant Arms Open Beta Client (1.35 GB)

The free-to-play business model for PC games has been huge in Asia for a long time but it's just been in the last few years that the trend has exploded into the US market. This week one of the biggest such web sites, ijji.com, announced that they have signed up 9 million registered players.

The site, run by NHN USA, boasts a number of free-to-play titles including the fantasy MMMO Lunia and the shooter Soldier Front. The portal has a number of upcoming games that are currently in beta testing. Those titles include the long-in-development sci-fi FPS MMO Huxley and the free-to-play modern day shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms.

This video shows the opening cinematic for the upcoming free-to-play online shooter, Huxley. The sci-fi themed game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where human "sapiens" use high-technology to battle against mutants. The game is currently in beta in Korea and is expected to make its way to North America in the fall.

Download HD Huxley Opening Cinematic (172 MB)