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Hard Reset Gets A Little Softer With Patch 1.01

7:20AM September 24, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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]

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

1:00AM September 10, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

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Cyberpunk Shooting Of Hard Reset Is Just A Demo Download Away

3:40AM September 8, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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.

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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 »

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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 »

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Seven Minutes In Cyberpunk Shooter Heaven

5:00AM August 16, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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. More »

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

12:00AM August 12, 2011 | Joel Johnson

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. More »

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Live From QuakeCon, A Rage Playthrough Liveblog

3:30AM August 6, 2011 | Joel Johnson

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. More »

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Hard Reset Is A Sexy Cyberpunk Shooter That Took Me By Surprise

4:00AM August 5, 2011 | Mike Fahey

It’s OK if you’ve never heard of Hard Reset, the new singleplayer cyberpunk first-person shooter coming next month from Polish developer Flying Wild Hog. Up until a couple of weeks ago, no one had. It happens. It just doesn’t happen often with a game this good being released this soon. More »

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Tribes: Ascend Revisits The Series’ Glory Days

4:00AM August 4, 2011 | Mike Fahey

I first played Starsiege: Tribes at the 1998 E3 Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. A relatively newcomer to the multiplayer first-person shooter, I fondly recall ignoring whatever objective our team was supplied with, instead spending my time whooshing about the map with my jetpack, giggling to myself. More »