Just a quick update for old and new Infantry Online fans:

Sony Online Entertainmant have made all their Station Pass Games totally free to play, so that all players will have their characters and stats saved in the database between play sessions. Here's the SOE news release:

To our Valued Station Pass subscribers:

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is pleased to announce that beginning on June 26, 2007, the full versions of Tanarus®, Cosmic Rift™ Online and Infantry Online™ (what is currently known collectively as the Station Pass subscription package) will be free to play for gamers with Station accounts in good standing! These three casual, action-based strategy games will be added to www.station.com, SOE's portal for gamers, adding even more hours of entertainment to gamers around the globe.

For those of you haven't encountered Infantry before, it's an online 3D isometric perspective, multiplayer, combat, computer game with sprite animation graphics. Players can choose from a list of various game zones, with each zone having a unique style of gameplay and offering a wide diversity of weapons, player classes and objectives. Cosmic Rift is the spaceship battle version of Infantry. The game is fairly old now, being mainly developed between 1998 and 2000 with new gameplay zones added since then, but it still has a reasonable player base which has surged again on the annoucement that it is once again free.

Infantry offers a huge amount of fun in team versus team play, so I recommend you take a look at Infantry as the download at Station Pass Games is not large by today's standards, and it's all FREE!

The Infantry and Cosmic Rift game engine was developed and programmerd by Jeff Petersen, who was also the author of the very popular and long lived title Subspace. Subspace was the predicessor of Infantry and is also an isometeric perspective multiplayer spaceship combat game. Subspace is operated by a player consortium and has been updated and retitled to Continuum, and is also free to play online. You can download it here if you're interested.

I managed to catch up with Jeff Petersen in Infantry yesterday. He told me he'd been working on the FreeRealms game title which SOE has annouced for PS3, but is scheduled to soon head up a new MMO project for SOE, which is tentatively slated for the PS3 platform, but my also be developed for Windows.