Newsbrief: Sony Online Entertainment has announced another entry for the fast-growing free-to-play first-person shooter market with
Bullet Run, a new title releasing for PC this summer.
The publisher has had plenty of success with other free-to-play PC titles like
Free Realms and
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, and it's also developing an MMOFPS under that business model with
Planetside 2.
Developed by German independent studio Acony (
Parabellum),
Bullet Run has a near-future, The Running Man-esque setting in which players join teams and battle others to the death as part of a reality TV game show.
Acony believes that the game's "sexier, media-driven storyline" will set
Bullet Run apart from other FPSes and attract players who might be tired of military-themed shooters (e.g. Nexon's
Combat Arms, Valve's
Counter-Strike Online).
