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Last December, ijji.com launched a closed beta test for its alternate history-themed first person shooter KARMA: Operation Barbarossa. It's been a long time but today ijji.com announced that the second closed beta test for the game has started today and will run through August 17.

As before the game's setting is a timeline where the Germans are still fighting a very long World War II in the present day. Players can join the German army or the resistance. The game, which was first announced at E3 in 2009, still does not have an official launch date here in the US.

The 3D craze in gaming is even starting to hit the free-to-play shooter genre. Today NHN USA announced that a new update for Alliance of Valiant Arms enables the first person shooter to have support for Nvidia's 3D Vision technology. You will still need to have the glasses and a monitor that supports the tech but if you have them you can see the game with 3D effects for the first time.

The update for A.V.A. has also added some new weapons, a new map called Cannon, a new daily quest system that will give players extra XP and battle points and more.You can download and play the game now at the ijji.com web site. NHN USA is ava.ijji.com/event/mediamixup.nhnalso running new contests for players to submit their best desktop wallpapers and videos related to the game. Prizes include 3D Vision glasses and kits and more.

Download the Alliance of Valiant Arms client at Big Download

For some odd reason the zombie trend in both games and in pop culture in general has no signs of dying off anytime soon. Today NHN USA announced that their free-to-play first person shooter Soldier Front has become the latest game to add a gameplay mode that features some kind of zombies or infected folks.

The new Zombie Mode lets one player become the infected while the other players remain human. The goal is for that one play to start infecting the other normal participants with its zombie infection until all of the players become hungry for human flesh. The new mode also includes some new weapons such as the Devil Uzi designed to help take out the flesh-eating monsters.

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.

Some of you may remember that back in February, NHN USA and its portal site ijji.com announced a contest that would let its users give suggestions for a name that would be used as the official title for an upcoming sci-fi themed free-to-play first person shooter. Today Big Download has the honor of officially announcing the name that was picked for the game.

As submitted by ijji.com member "[A]staroth-" the name of the game will now be Genesis A.D. "[A]staroth-" will get a gaming PC from iBuyPower for his winning game title. The game itself is set in Earth's future where massive global warming is causing the polar ice caps to melt. As a result, the dry land masses on the planet are getting scarce, along with access to resources. The Earth Environment Protection Organization is formed by the Earth's leaders. Its military force goes after any factions that stand in the way of trying to protect what remains of Earth.

There's still no word yet on when Genesis A.D. will officially launch on ijji.com. In the meantime, check out a new teaser trailer for the game after the jump:

Last year, NCsoft successfully launched Aion, their fantasy MMO with Crytek's CryEngine as its basis. Now another Korean based publisher has announced plans to release Project E:st, a fantasy MMO from publisher NHN that will used the second generation version of the CryEngine. The game will launch first in Korean and the plan is to release the game later in the US and Europe.

There's little info on the game itself in the press release other than it will be developed by Polygon Games. However a gameplay trailer will be shown next week at the Game Developers Conference at Crytek's booth. The game will enter closed beta testing in Korea later this year.

NHN USA's latest free-to-play first person shooter, KARMA: Operation Barbarossa, is moving into its next phase. The title has now started closed beta testing over at the Ijji.com web site. The game itself is a World War II themed shooter but not quite the same as the Call of Duty titles.

Rather, the game takes place in an alternate timeline where the Germans continued to wage war in Europe. Players can take on the role of either the Germans or the resistance armies. Oh, and did we mention the zombies that you might also have to fight off? Yep, war is complicated sometimes.

Download the KARMA: Operation Barbarossa install client (1.09 GB)

ijji.com's recently launched their free-to-play shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms in the US and now the game has added its first new gameplay mode. And what do you know? It looks like the game has succumbed to giving its players a variant of a "shoot zombies" mode.

The mode's actual title is Prison Break - Survival. The "zombies" are actually prisoners who have been infected by a biological agent that turns them into berserkers (more 28 Days Later than Dawn of the Dead). Players have to survive as long as possible against the wave of zombies . . . er, berserkers. You can check out the mode's full on action in the above video.

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.