Hawken: Adhesive's Cool Mech-Shooter Is Free, Has Release Date

Hawken, the visually-stunning, Unreal Engine-powered shooter from indie studio Adhesive Games, will launch as a free-to-pay title in December.

Adhesive confirmed that its Meteor Entertainment division will publish Hawken as an F2P title after we broke the news last month.

Hawken had initially been touted as a digital console title for PSN, XBLA or Steam.

Adhesive co-founder Chris Lalli told NowGamer last year: "We aren't sure which platform Hawken will be released on and we'd like to keep those options open."

Khang Le, co-founder and chief executive of Adhesive told VB: "There hasn’t been a good robot game in a while and nothing that looks like what we’re trying to do, which is more like Call of Duty multiplayer."

Older PCs will also support Hawken, according to Le, with the session-based gameplay supported by micro-transactions.

Hawken is due to launch on 12 December 2012 (or 12/12/12) - register for the closed beta here.

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