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How important is an in-game avatar? If given the choice, do you always choose a character from the gender you identify with? A recent study by Macquarie University senior lecturer Michael Hitchens has delved into the role of the avatar in first-person shooters. Having read his findings, we can’t help but wonder: if given a choice, who or what kind of character would you be?
Code Hero isn’t your basic first-person shooter. You’ll have enemies, and you’ll be “shooting” them, but it won’t be with assault rifles and pistols. Instead, you shoot lines of Javascript to command the environment around you. Need a platform moved over? A certain kind of enemy eliminated in one fell swoop? There’s a code for that.
The war between the US and Russia escalates today as EA’s browser-based shooter Battlefield Free2Play enters open beta, allowing gamers everywhere to enter the fray with the default equipment or pay to play the tricked-out way.
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Speaking of first-person shooters, Villain has just released Archetype for the iPhone, a quick-and-dirty online FPS that crams all the features you’d expect in a PC game into a tiny little package.
