In my interview with Ryan Seabury of Netdevil earlier today we happened to drop onto the topic of Warmonger, their physics heavy first-person shooter that leans on the PhysX card to do some pretty amazing things.

Seabury was telling me how you could use the destructible environment to completely reshape the level. For instance, there's a building where you can blow out the stairs after climbing them and prevent people from getting up to you as you snipe.

It sounds like a cool "exploratory project" as he put it. And it's getting cooler. Seabury said they've just decided to release the first version of the game, the full, complete version, entirely for free.

I suspect that's because a lot of people don't have the computer with the necessary chops to play the game and they really want to get it out there. Seabury said they also want to see what people think of the whole idea. Brian Crecente

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