http://www.bluesnews.com/s/111231/nadeo-reveals-shootmania-and-questmania

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Nadeo has opened ManiaPlanet as a hub for their upcoming projects, the already announced TrackMania 2 and the newly revealed ShootMania and QuestMania, an upcoming first-person shooter and role-playing game, respectively. There is a ManiaPlanet teaser trailer on TM-Tube (not sure why they eschewed TubeMania for that one) talking about how they plan to empower users to create PC game content, and how ManiaPlanet will provide a unified hub for all three games, which will share a social network and content creation tools. They also outline a beta schedule, saying their racing sequel TrackMania 2 will enter beta testing in Q4 of this year, ShootMania will go beta in Q1 2011, with the QuestMania beta "coming soon." A post to the ManiaPlanet Forum by Hylis (Nadeo director Florent Castelnerac) explains their measured approach to rolling out this ambitious scheme. There are also one, two, three forum posts reflecting Nadeo's quandary over how to handle DRM for this endeavor, this post explaining that coppers are being renamed "planets" and more how they plan on handling game environments, with more on environments here. Finally. there's also a post about scheduling, this post pointing out confusing aspects of that schedule, and this post confessing to the confusion and trying to set things straight.

www.maniaplanet.com

Really quite interested in whatever shootmania might hold...as well as TM2 obviously.

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Back at the conference the penultimate unveiling was a whole new PC platform called ManiaPlanet. It's been put together with help from TrackMania developers Nadeo and the idea is that it will support a number of different games, but all featuring a similar focus on user-created content and sharing your creations. As well as TrackMania 2 due this year the next two titles will be something called ShootMania and massively multiplayer online game QuestMania. The former is due next spring and the latter will start beta testing this year, but it's not clear whether Nadeo is making those themselves.

Metro.co.uk