Rumble Entertainment reveals its Ballistic first-person shooter web game (hands-on preview)

Rumble Entertainment is revealing a groundbreaking first-person multiplayer shooter today that it has been working on for a very long time. Ballistic is a game with good 3D graphics, but you can play it in a web browser with a lightweight download that means almost no waiting time. You just jump into the game and start shooting.

Greg Richardson, the chief executive of San Mateo, Calif.-based Rumble, hopes the game will deliver on a long-held promise: premium games played in a web browser. Ballistic will run on relatively low-end computers as it was designed to do so by Brazilian developer Aquiris, which made the game for Rumble. It is built on the Unity game engine, and it will run on Facebook, Kongregate, and RumbleGames.com.