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You don't have to be Zero Cool to hack mainframes -- at least not in Splash Damage's Brink. The latest trailer shows one such player doing just that, sans Angelina Jolie.

Here's how to improve your persistent character in the new team shooter from Splash Damage.

Welcome to the ark: now see abilities like turret hacking in action!

#video Now that we've gotten to know Brink's Medic, Soldier, Engineer, and Operative, let's take a look the special abilities each class can unlock as they progress to make the game feel even more like Team Fortress 2. More »

Via the newsbeast of VG247, I am made aware of a new Brink trailer. This one is about the abilities you can unlock for your characters over time. It includes a pretty sweet deployable turret, and the obligatory stealth-dude ability to counter it, in this case hacking it so that the thing guns down its former owners.

Brink is out on May 17th. So that’s going to be a busy week. (more…)

Learn yourself up on the combat roles in Splash Damage's next shooter.

Brink might be agile enough to stand out in a sea of similar games.

We’ve only got to wait to May 20th before we can all pile onto the Brink servers and run around pretending to be peculiarly proportioned men. I can’t wait! There’s a video out that explains the abilities and missions that some of these men will face in the moments between shooting each other. These subdivisions of shootermen will be called “classes”, each with its own skills and things. Clever, I know.

And – my goodness – it’s looking good. Go take a look, below. (more…)

Rather than donning a tux and renting a limo, Brink's latest trailer actually just shows off the game's class-based multiplayer. For lessons in the subtle differences between a medic and a soldier, head past the break.

#video Our latest look at the upcoming Brink gets a touch of class, detailing the four playable classes in Splash Damage's long-in-the-making team-based first-person shooter. How does a soldier differ from a medic? What makes an operative more appealing than an engineer? More »

Every mission needs the right person--and the right person is a matter of class.

#splashdamage Eager to get your hands on Bethesda and Splash Damage's Brink? We've played it a ton already, but if you're interested in Brink's brand of team-based shoot 'em up action and you happen to be in Boston this weekend, say for PAX East, you can get your hands on the game this weekend in an interesting location. More »

Listen up, PAX East attendees -- provided you're not already on some form of transit to Boston that's preventing you from accessing the internet. Splash Damage and Bethesda are hosting a demo event for their upcoming shooter Brink this Friday at a fairly unique location: At a cruise terminal on the Boston waterfront. Guests who attend the party at "The Ark," will find themselves awash with refreshments, goodie bags, and opportunities to participate in 8 vs. 8 multiplayer matches.

You'll have to catch a shuttle running from the convention center to the event from 8 - 11 p.m. ET if you want to attend. Sure, that sounds like kind of a hassle, but considering that folks aboard the Ark are also guaranteed safety once the raging floods consume the Earth, we think it's worth it.

Wait, it's not that kind of Ark? Well, what's the point, then?

Find out how Brink's multiplayer plans to become the best multiplayer experience on the market as Splash Damage's Richard Ham lays down the law!

Players of Splash Damage's Brink will probably notice its similarities to the company's previous Enemy Territory titles -- while the game is set in an all new universe pitting Security and Resistance forces against each other, the gameplay is both familiar and fresh, combining class-based warfare and team objective gameplay with a helpful interface.

But the relationship might be closer than you think. "I'll be honest," said Richard Ham, creative director at Splash Damage to Joystiq during a recent press event in Los Angeles. "Brink is Enemy Territory 3. Let's not mince words here." Well, okay then.

#preview What's taking Brink so long? Why won't this ambitious, complex first-person shooter come out already? We've already seen and enjoyed its "SMART" approach to speeding through levels and over obstacles. We've been impressed by the detail of the futuristic Ark and Brink's teamwork-focused gameplay. More »

Developer Splash Damage refines its brand of multiplayer shooter.

Brink audio director Chris Sweetman's got plenty of street cred in the "authentic gun sounds" community, for his work on Black. To learn more about the process of making Brink's armaments as sonically pleasing as possible, go read the game's latest dev diary while listening to the video below.

Enjoy the musical notes of guns big and small doing what they do best--killing people.

#clips Get the sound of gunfire stuck in your head with Brink's "choir of guns," a catchy excuse to look at the deep and customizable arsenal in the forthcoming first-person shooter. More »

#clips The latest developer diary for Splash Damage's Brink gives us a peek into the minds behind the game, and what happens when those minds get their hands on high-powered sniper rifles. More »

Love shooters? Love online? Love Brink.

The latest dev diary for Brink focuses on the game's innovative art design, largely conceived by designer Olivier Leonardi, who has a total artist name. What's so innovative about it? Two things, mostly: there's lots and lots of color, and also, everyone's arms are super long.

The first dev diaries for Brink explained game mechanics , but the latest one has Splash Damage engaging a more amorphous subject: the game's inability to be defined by genres. It may also be about the studio's choice to make XP persistent between single and multiplayer. Maybe.

#developerdiary More lofty claims from developer Splash Damage, as the latest developer diary for Brink boasts that the game blurs the lines of genre beyond definition. More »

#impressions The game I most wish I was playing right now is Brink. I played it a week ago. It delivered on an unusual promise. More »

The latest Brink dev diary introduces us to the game's "Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain" system -- or "S.M.A.R.T." for short -- and how it allows players to deftly traverse environments while firing bullets at enemies. In so many words, this is the system that allows players to practice their totally sweet parkour moves while murdering fools.

Perhaps those smooth moves will inspire you to get some freestyle walking in as well -- in real life? Good thing, then, that Brink is sponsoring "champion freerunner" Daniel Ilabaca on a European parkour tour. The tour kicked off today in London and will hit a handful of major EU cities before ending in Paris on September 2. We might also suggest you buy lots of padding and, depending on your level of fitness, a membership to the local gym before trying that "freerunning" yourself.

Buy early and get loot.

Brink developer Splash Damage's Quakecon 2010 panel played host to a few neat announcements about its FPSRPG, the highlight of which being the reveal of the game's cameo-tastic pre-order bonuses. Folks who reserve the game through GameStop will unlock the Doom pack, giving their Brink characters access to armor, guns, hats and a tattoo based on id's seminal FPS franchise. Those who pre-order the game from Best Buy will receive a similar pack based on Fallout 3.

Of course, if you're looking for more unique duds for your Brink avatar, several online retailers will offer "Psycho" and "Spec Ops" equipment, which will make your character resemble a psycho and special operative, respectively. Neither of those sound quite as enticing as "Space Demon Fighter" or "Nuclear Wasteland Savior," but we suppose they'll do.

Splash Damage offers QuakeCon attendees a sneak peek at exclusive extras.