The Alien Arena Website now offers a new version 7.65 of this free multiplayer shooter, which they dubbed the Alien Arena: Mercury Edition, as it includes many new features as well graphical enhancements, including "a much faster rendering game engine." Here are some major features of the new release:

• Major improvements in map rendering speed
• HD lightmaps
• IQM mesh animation now handled in GPU for major peformance gains
• Particle rendering optimizations
• Fixed issues with ATI and shaders
• Soft shadowmapping for vegetation and players
• Cubemapping on mesh and map surfaces
• New glass and water effects
• Weapon switching has been made significantly faster
• TCA now best two out of three
• Various player models received poly increases for smoothness
• New armor models