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Japan’s Newest First Person Shooter Fires Nothing But Blanks

Last week Kotaku brought you word of The Legend of Alfur, a Japanese-made first person shooter, developed by a small indy game studio using the Unreal Engine. With Japanese-made FPS titles being something of a rarity — especially compared to how many are developed in the West — this seemed the perfect game to check out in more detail. Hoping I had found a diamond in the rough, I went into The Legend of Alfur cautiously optimistic. Sadly, it only took me a few minutes to find out that The Legend of Alfur isn’t very good.


April 5, 2012
PC

A Little Something Special For The Shadowrun Fans In The Audience

Culled from the video from this morning’s Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter post, it’s time to put the sins of Shadowrun games past behind us. Watching the executive producer of 2007′s horrid first-person shooter a few thousand times should do the trick.


September 24, 2011
PC

Hard Reset Gets A Little Softer With Patch 1.01

Was Flying Wild Hog’s cyberpunk shooter Hard Reset too hard for you? Patch 1.01 eases your pain, removing weapon cooldowns, improving gun swapping speed, tweaking the sprint system, and allowing players the mercy of mid-game difficulty changing. Pansies. [Steam Forums]


September 10, 2011
PlayStation

The Flex-Fire Is PlayStation Move Shooting, But With A Bender

We are about a year into hardcore shooter gaming played with the PlayStation Move — an experience that, from day one, is assumed to demand one play it with something that resembles a rifle, without ever asking if we really should.


September 8, 2011
PC

Cyberpunk Shooting Of Hard Reset Is Just A Demo Download Away

Flying Wild Hog’s humanity-versus-machines shooter Hard Reset is now available for download via a PC digital deliver service near you. Get it from Steam, FilePlanet, GameFront and many other fine game downloading services.


August 17, 2011
PC

Holy Moly 2. Battlefield 3′s New 64-Player Trailer Looks Lovely

The motion picture beats the still image again. Sure, today’s new Battlefield 3 screenshots were impressive. But this trailer, showing a 64-player battle in the game’s Caspian Sea level, looks better.


PC

Holy Moly. Battlefield 3 Has Some Gorgeous Screenshots

With screenshots that look this pretty, I would guess we’re looking at a PC version. But we’ll have trailers that were running on a PS3 up soon.


August 16, 2011
PC

Seven Minutes In Cyberpunk Shooter Heaven

Earlier this month I took a good hard look at Hard Reset, the upcoming singleplayer shooter coming out next month from Polish developer Flying Wild Hog, telling you all about my favourite parts of the game. Now I can show you.


August 12, 2011
PC

Hardcore Triber Tells You Why Tribes: Ascend Is So Close To Being Transcendent

I have played Tribes: Ascend. If that statement doesn’t make you jealous, provoke salivating, or awaken tense memories of last-minute flag captures that you can physically feel in your shoulders and mousing hand, this probably isn’t going to be the article for you.


August 6, 2011
PC

Live From QuakeCon, A Rage Playthrough Liveblog

Hello, eerbody! I’m in Dallas, Texas, at QuakeCon, about to have my first play time with id Software’s new marquee title, Rage. I hope to write up impressions later, but I thought you might enjoy seeing my notes live as I play.