Tribes: Ascend release date announced

Today, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Hi-Rez Studios have announced that the free-to-play Tribes: Ascend will be released on April 12th, 2012 for the PC.

Tribes: Ascend is a fast paced sci-fi FPS for the PC that bills itself the "World’s Fastest Shooter" and is currently in Open Beta with over 400,000 players participating. All player progress in the Beta will carry over to the release build.

Supporting the announcement Hi-Rez Studios also released a parody trailer titled "Tribes Ascend - Llama Island."

"Tribes is all about speed and movement," explains Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios Chief Operating Officer. "In fact the community uses the term llama to refer to a player moving too slowly, like a plodding llama. So this video demonstrates the perils of trying to capture a flag while going too slow. The outcome is predictable but no less tragic."