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The newly renamed publisher UTV True Games has just announced their first game that comes from their own internal game development studio in Austin, Texas. Titled Faxion Online, the fantasy MMO title will put players in the enternal conflict between Heaven and Hell itself.

The game's teaser web site has already gone live with a brief description of Faxion Online, where players will fight in competitive and PVP battles to gain and control territory in three worlds (Heaven, Hell and Limbo). The game's press release and some concept artwork also indicate that Faxion Online will also have a sense of humor about it. The game is scheduled to go into beta testing in late 2010.

True Games Interactive has launched a free-to-play MMO in Warrior Epic and its next online game Mytheon (with developer Petroglyph) is getting close to an official launch. Today the company announced a name change to UTV True Games. The change was made to better reflect the important of UTV, the India-based company that holds a majority stake in True Games.

The company also announced today that they have recently signed an agreement to publish a new game from a unnamed but "leading online game developer." No other details on the game were revealed. This new title is in addition to the previously announced but unnamed MMO game that's currently being worked on at UTV True Games' headquarters in Austin, Texas. The company also has a development team in Asia that supports Warrior Epic and is working on a second unnamed game.

Electronic Arts has been putting more and more efforts into making new original games like Army of Two and the upcoming Mirror's Edge, Spore and Dead Space. So it makes sense that EA would like to see some of these properties on movie and TV screens. Today the publisher announced that they have signed a deal with the Hollywood talent agency UTV to help them do just that.

EA hopes to ramp up film and TV shows based on their game titles with the help of UTV. Even thought EA has a ton of games that could be turned into other media properties they only have a few of these kind of deals in development. These include a movie based on The Sims at Fox and a MySims animated TV series at Film Roman. There's also a Dead Space animated movie from Starz/Film Roman that will be released alongside the game this October.