Valve announced that The Ship, the first person game developed by Outerlight Ltd., is scheduled for a free four-day tour of the full game, open to everyone via Steam, The free full game trial of The Ship casts off Thursday, November 2 at 1 pm PDT and will conclude on Sunday, November 5 at the same time. Set on a series of luxury, art deco cruise ships built by ‘Mr X’, The Ship challenges you to kill or be killed. The rules of the hunt are simple: each of you is given the name of one of the other contestants on board, and you must hunt them down and kill them with any weapon you can find. But as well as having someone to hunt, you have another player hunting you. The many multiplayer modes include Hunt, Elimination, Duel and Deathmatch, for 8 - 16 players (and up to 32 players on the larger maps.) Weapons on board are many and varied: bludgeoning (hammers, mannequin arms and tennis rackets), stabbing (knives, katanas, letter openers), firearms, poison, traps and triggers. The E3 2006 trailer is located here.