PlayTribes was a planned browser-based version of Starsiege: Tribes

Starsiege: Tribes

Starsiege: Tribes is a sci-fi first-person shooter video game. It is the first of the Tribes video game series and follows the story from Earthsiege and Starsiege. It was developed by Dynamix and published by the company now known as Sierra Entertainment in 1998.-History:A sequel, Tribes 2, was...

, an online multiplayer first-person shooter

First-person shooter

First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

 developed by the now defunct Dynamix

Dynamix

Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of computer games from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, Red Baron, the Front Page Sports series, Betrayal at Krondor, and their online multiplayer game, Tribes.-History:...

 game studio in 1998 for the PC. InstantAction

InstantAction

InstantAction was a web gaming site and digital distributor featuring 3D, browser-based games.The site was created by game and technology developer GarageGames after its acquisition in 2007 and released a year later. InstantAction's goal was to allow publishers and developers the ability to embed...

 first announced PlayTribes in March 2009, along with their acquisition of the Tribes intellectual property. An open beta was scheduled to release that summer but was pushed back after Louis Castle came on board as their new CEO, and changed the focus of the company to develop a new game-embed platform. The game was shown off in September 2009 at PAX in a relatively playable state. On October 23, 2010, Hi-Rez Studios announced that they had bought the Tribes IP from InstantAction, which canceled any future development on PlayTribes.