Shooter

In Real Life

For The Right Price These Gamers Will Die For You

2:00AM December 13, 2011 | Brian Crecente

This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it read. More »


PC

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

8:30AM August 17, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

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. More »


PC

Holy Moly. Battlefield 3 Has Some Gorgeous Screenshots

1:10AM August 17, 2011 | Joel Johnson

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. More »


Mobile

Angry Birds, Infinity Blade, Fruit Ninja Converge In The Dark Meadow

9:30AM August 3, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Combining the slingshot controls of Angry Birds, the swordplay of Fruit Ninja, the gorgeous Unreal Engine-powered graphics of Infinity Blade, and the dark fairytale them of the film Pan’s Labyrinth, The Dark Meadow is the sort of iOS game nightmares are made of. More »


PC

If It’s A PC Exclusive With No Multiplayer, You Better Believe Hard Reset’s Trailer Is All About Gameplay

6:00AM August 1, 2011 | Owen Good

The Polish super-team building the cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset must think it’s 1996 or something. The game is a PC exclusive, has no multiplayer, and although it was announced last month, it’s coming out later this year. That’s how things used to get done around here. More »


PC

Firefall Is Making Bug-Killing Look Like A Blast

5:30PM July 29, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Firefall is an upcoming co-op shooter for the PC, made by Red 5 Studios, which is helmed by the guy who was team lead on World of Warcraft. So it should know what it’s doing when it comes to online gaming.

It certainly looks like it does, as this gameplay trailer is a blast. If you’ve ever liked Starship Troopers and/or Tribes, there should be something to like in all this.

It should be out sometime towards the end of the year.


News

Battlefield 3 Isn’t Competing With Modern Warfare 3, But It Still Wants To Win

3:00AM July 29, 2011 | Brian Crecente

The way I see it, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 aren’t really competitors. They’re just two modern shooters that happen to be coming out two weeks apart from each other. More »


News

New York Yankees Of First-Person Shooters Welcomes Negative Feedback

3:00AM July 29, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

I couldn’t get Robert Bowling to use the words Battlefield 3 in a sentence. More »


News

The Video Game That Wants To Invade Mexico

3:40AM July 27, 2011 | Brian Crecente

A video game built around an investigation into a series of brazen attacks by a Mexican drug cartel, which culminates in an attack on US soil, may sound like a timely take on the escalating violence in United States’ border towns. More »


News

A Look At One Of 2012′s Most Promising Shooters

12:00AM July 27, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Plants Vs Zombies, PixelJunk Monsters, Command & Conquer: A lot of video games come to mind when you first play Starhawk, none of them shooters, but above all else, that’s what the successor to Warhawk is. More »