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This weekend's out of the blue announcement of a new game in the Tribes series of sci-fi shooters by developer Hi-Rez Studios likely has the attention of some old school gamers who remember where they were when the original game in the franchise was first released. However it's also likely that many people reading this web site have never played, or even worse, never heard of the Tribes series.

So we decided to whip a quick history of the Tribes franchise for those of you who have yet to play any of the games in the series. The franchise was a massive influence of the first person shooter genre, particularly in its multiplayer features. In many ways the first game in the series was years ahead of its time but its successors never achieved the audience that the first game did.

The game is still a long ways from completion with 2K Games saying it will debut sometime in 2012. Our sister site Joystiq got to see a presentation of BioShock Infinite and also chatted with Irrational Games' head man Ken Levine about the game. They ask the big questions like, "Why a new BioShock game instead of a completely original title?" and "Why a city in the sky?" and more. You can bet there will be a lot more revealed about the game in the coming months. In the meantime you can check out the official press release after the jump.

Get the BioShock Infinite trailer at Big Download (134 MB)

Gallery: BioShock Infinite Screenshots

The last time we heard something about the BioShock movie things seems to be going well. The film, based on Irrational Games' hit first person shooter, had secured a new director (28 Weeks Later's Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) last year. However it looks like things are still tied up in terms of the movie's budget

IGN chatted with the movie's producer Gore Verbinski who stated he and the movie's studio Universal are working with Fresnadillo to " . . . get the budget down and still keep so it's true to the core audience, you know? The thing is it has to be R, a hard R." He adds, "We don't want to dumb it down, we don't want to make it PG-13. We want to keep it really edgy, and it's a huge bill."