Last summer, we hopped into Holospark's FPS alien shooter Earthfall. The game was very much trying to capture that Left 4 Dead feel but with aliens instead of zombies. There were some interesting ideas, like the 3D printers for guns and setting up defenses, but it also felt like there just wasn't enough there. In the few months after its release, the devs did add some new content, so we figured we should finally hop back in to check it out.

Earthfall, the four player co-op alien shooter, is free this weekend on Steam. Players can jump in and check out all the major new features and improvements from the Invasion Update that includes a horde mode and player progression system.

Earthfall and its four player online co-op first graced our presence back in July of this year, and the first person shooter has been churning out minor improvements ever since.

There are two things that make for a great update: a low price (or free!), and readily available when players want it. In the new Militia update for Earthfall, both of those boxes can be checked off since it is completely free and already available across all platforms. Much like the previous update, Inferno, the latest content brings a new weapon (grenade launchers), character skins and weapon skins.

We ran into a few snags with the archive of our Earthfall "Let's Play Co-Op" last week, so we decided we'd go ahead and play it again this week. The good news is that in between the two, developer Holospark announced their development roadmap for the next few months, which gave us a little more to talk about and ponder.

The Left 4 Dead-like, Earthfall, has been out for about a month now on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and Holospark, the game's developer, has recently laid out a "development roadmap" for the next few months. There will be a minor update later this month and next month that, collectively, add a couple new missions, enemies, and weapons, and that will pave the way for a big update in October.

Among all the chaos and hubbub of E3, the folks over at Holospark dropped a new trailer for their first person alien blaster, Earthfall.  In case you've missed out on it until now, the title features four player online co-op and tasks its players with surviving an alien onslaught by using 3D-printed weaponry and portable defenses.

I don't think it would be a proper summer without some alien menace threatening Earth. Holospark's Earthfall will see a full release on July 13 so you and your buddies can team up to fortify and defend against the extra-terrestrial menace.

Holosparks' cooperative FPS, Earthfall, is now available on the PC via Steam Early Access. The title draws inspiration from similar titles, like Left 4 Dead, but swaps out zombies for some horrifying monsters from the stars beyond.

While it will take a little while longer for the technology to reach a price point where everyone can enjoy 4K and HDR, that's not going to stop devs from getting the games out there that will take advantage of the graphical fidelity it provides. Seattle-based Holospark's debut FPS title, Earthfall, will join the ranks of those titles you will, someday, be able to enjoy in that higher res future.