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Maybe spending $60 for a game, no matter how good it is, is too much for your budget. This week you are in luck as the first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms has officially launched to the world over at the ijji.com web site. This is the latest in the flood of free-to-play shooter that have popped up this year in the US.

In this game's case, Alliance of Valient Arms' near future setting gives it more than a passing resemblence to the Modern Warfare games. The game, which uses the Unreal Engine 3 technology, is one of several FPS games that publisher NHN USA plans to release via their ijji.com site. One of them is the long awaited sci-fi shooter Huxkey which is still in beta testing.

Just a couple of weeks after shutting down its closed beta test, the free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Vailant Arms from publisher NHN USA has now entered full open beta testing. The test will be run until November 11. The near-future themed game uses the Unreal Engine 3 tech and features a conflict between the fictional factions of the European Union and the Neo Russian Federation.

You can download the full beta client right here at Big Download. NHN USA has a couple of other first person shooter games they plan to launch later including the long awaited sci-fi title Huxley.

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.

Clearly aiming for the Modern Warfare gaming audience, the free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Vailant Arms from publisher NHN USA has now entered closed beta testing and will continue until September 30. Play time for the Unreal Engine 3 based shooter will be from Noon to 8 p.m. PST each day.

You can still sign up to check out the closed beta at the game's official web site. Big Download got a chance to play a few matches earlier this week in a special media day and the game is certainly a fun way to spend a few minutes of time. There are a number of gameplay modes available from simple team deathmatch-like modes to one where teams set up bombs to go off in certain areas to one where one team escorts a tank from one side of the map to the other while the other team tries to stop them. You can rank up in the game to gain access to more weapons and items, again much like the Modern Warfare titles.

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]

Yep, its another online first person shooter announcement from NHN USA. Today at E3 2009 they have revealed plans to bring Karma: Operation Bararossa to the US. The game, first developed by Korean-based companies Dragonfly, Futureport and Blueside, the title will be made available on the ijji.com site in late 2009.

This FPS takes place on an alternate world where World War II never ended and Nazi Germany has taken over all of Europe. Players will be able to switch sides between the Nazis and the Soviet Union for their online multiplayer battles. No other info on the game was revealed but again we hope to get more info later this week at E3 2009.

NHN USA, the company that is handling the US launch of the free-to-play FPS MMO Huxley later this year, has just announced plans for another Unreal Engine 3-based FPS. The game is called Alliance of Valiant Arms and takes place in a alternate present day World War.

The game's two sides are the European Union (EU) and the Neo Russian Federation (NRF) and the press release states that players will be "tasked with picking a side and squaring off in an unprecedented battle." The game is due for launch in late 2009 on the ijji.com web site.. There is currently one lone screenshot (shown above) and we hope to get more info on the title during E3 2009 this week.

It's been a long, hard road for the Unreal Engine 3 based sci-fi MMOFPS Huxley. The Webzen-developed game was first announced way back in 2005. Earlier this year it was announced that NHN USA had picked up the US publishing rights to the game and planned on launching it as a free-to-play MMO on their web site ijji.com before the end of the year.

Unfortunately it looks like that's not going to happen after all. Big Download has learned that Huxley's launch has been pushed back for the US market until the first half of 2009. We spoke on the phone with NHN USA's PR rep who said that the development team wanted more time to handle the game's localization issues. Huxley has been in open beta in Korea for the past few months.

In honor of NHN USA Inc.'s two-year anniversary, the developer of free-to-play online titles has announced a series of summer promotions as a way to say "thank you" to its fans.

"NHN USA wants to thank all of the loyal fans who have made ijji.com and its games a remarkable success over the past two years," said Whon Namkoong, CEO, NHN USA. "ijji.com is the destination of choice for millions of hardcore and casual online gamers in North America, helping NHN USA emerge as a premier and respected online entertainment publisher. Looking ahead, we plan to continue offering our gamers new content, promotions and exciting adventures for the current games, while bringing even more unique, free-to-play games to ijji.com."

GUNS, a third-person online action game, will host a tournament for the game's top 32 clans. A qualifying period runs through this Sunday, 7/13, with matches taking place in on July 19, 26, and 27. A non-tournament bracket will also be available. Both brackets will award winners with prizes. Additionally, a player creation system contest has also been planned for GUNZ, with the 10 winning submissions receive a multitude of prizes.

Gunbound Revolution, a multiplayer turn-based shooter, is also a recipient of NHN's anniversary blowout. According to IGN, the game will receive:


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