Fallen Empire: Legions isn't just the best reason yet to enter our giveaway for one of five $100 InstantAction.com accounts, it's also a spritual successor, if you will, to the fan-favorite Tribes series. You see, a bunch of the guys from Dynamix went on to form GarageGames and – after years of people asking them, "Hey, when are you going to make a Tribes-like game?" – they eventually just hunkered down and out came Legions. Coupled with Quake Live and Battlefield: Heroes – all three are free-to-play FPSs – we've got ourselves a full-blown gaming trend here.

GarageGames' Tim Aste gave us a brief tour of Fallen Empire: Legions at GDC this year which we've embedded for you above. Also included, a tour of the second-most compelling reason to enter our giveaway: a tour of Cyclomite courtesy of Wideload's Scott Corley. You've got until tomorrow at noon to enter (that's two calendar days, so there's room for two more entries!).

Wideload Games' new shorts division, appropriately titled Wideload Shorts and obviously using sex appeal to sell the brand (mmm, hippos) have announced that one of the first titles from the division, Cyclomite will debut early 2008 on InstantAction, a service developed by GarageGames where you play the game within your browser and against other gamers.

In Cyclomite, players control a multi-colored ring whose purpose is to catch meteors as the storm of space rock tries to destroy the universe as we know it. 1UP has a preview of the game.

The game is being dubbed the "premier" title from Wideload Shorts in the press release, though it also states later that the studio will "release its first game in late 2007," so we guess premier means the first project they begun developing. No word on what that other title is. Wideload has stated it will support handheld, cell and online game platforms.

[Via Press Release]