Tribes: Vengeance was pretty good, I guess. It certainly continued the Tribes legacy of having a demo that included all the best parts of the full game. While it left a great first impression, though, it never quite graduated to anything deeper than Unreal Tournament with jetpacks. Don’t worry, Ken Levine, we don’t hold grudges around here. Oh, and thanks for BioShock, by the way.

After the good ol’ boys at Dynamix got good n’ fired and saw their landmark series ripped from their grasp, four of them got together and formed Garage Games, which has been steadily pumping out casual-friendly games powered by their Torque Engine, a Tribes 2 engine derivative. Still, they couldn’t leave jetpacks and disc launchers behind. It was in their blood, you see. Now, Shacknews got its grubby little mitts on a leaked alpha video for a game from Garage Games that can only be described as “Tribes-esque.” According to “timaste,” a Garage Games employee commenting on Shacknews’ news post, the video represents just three months of work. I’m positively giddy to see it after another three.

Truly, it’s a Festivus miracle.