Exteel

http://www.exteel.com/us/

Sort of a Macross meets Armored Core meets GunZ. Word on the street is that it's going to be part of NCSoft's free series of upcoming games (Star Smash, Dungeon Runner, etc) where the client purchase is $0, there's no monthly fee, and you pay for additional content as you like (ala Guild Wars).

Low requirements, little financial investment, plus awesome Mecha Quake-esque action? I'm excited. Sign me up! >;D

Edit: Watch the E3 2006 trailer!

Edit2: It also looks like they're going to support in-game advertising (ala Anarchy Online) as another method of making money. See those AMD ads in the trailer?

 

I miss Gunz. I try to download it but the torrent thing they have no is so horribly slow

 

http://eu.exteel.com/eu/media

The European website offers a download of the cinematic trailer, for those of you that are into that sort of thing. >;]

 

Gasp. An MMO centered around customizable mecha and online deathmatch, but so little interest?

For shame Empires. For Shame.