The Miner Wars Website looks as if it's been online for a while, but it now offers the official announcement of Miner Wars, a subterranean first-person shooter to be released this autumn for Windows and Xbox 360. The game looks like it is inspired by the Descent series, and they offer some screenshots and a pair of high-definition trailers showing off gameplay, which is described like so: "Miner Wars is a 6DOF underground and space shooter played in a fully destructible environment and is a combination of single player story game and MMO." Here's a bit more:

As a player, you operate an advanced mining ship in an open world asteroid belt area. You dig kilometers of tunnels, harvest the ore, travel the solar system, fight your enemies and discover mysterious alien secrets.

Game play is led by an epic story and is a combination of a single/multi-player game, cooperative, or you against everyone.

The story will introduce you to many types of missions: rescue, exploration, revenge, base defense, theft, transportation, stealth, search and destroy, pure harvesting, racing or just flying around and destroying everything you see.