Showing posts with label Shooter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shooter. Show all posts

Friday, March 21, 2014

Obsidian's Newest Game Isn't Quite What You'd Expect


Obsidian's Newest Game Isn't Quite What You'd Expect :
Last night at GDC in San Francisco, Obsidian Entertainment announced a new game. You might expect the company behind RPGs like Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth to have another massive adventure

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Ghost Recon Online gets a new name and a makeover

Ghost Recon Online gets a new name and a makeover :
Ubisoft today announced that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online, the developer's upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter, will launch April 10 on PC via Steam as "Ghost Recon Phantoms."The name change comes as

Monday, March 17, 2014

Elite's 3.0 alpha is here, as is docking and a new video

Elite's 3.0 alpha is here, as is docking and a new video :
Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Trailers, Video, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, Sandbox, Crowdfunding, Elite: Dangerous, Buy-to-Play Frontier has officially released version 3.0 of the Elite: Dangerous

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Firefall patch takes us to the kingdom of the Crystal Skull Pirates

Firefall patch takes us to the kingdom of the Crystal Skull Pirates :
Filed under: Sci-Fi, Patches, Free-to-Play, MMOFPS, Firefall A small update for Firefall is now live on the servers and with it comes a slew of small adjustments and additions including faster melee combat. Patch 0.8.1745

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Defiance's Gunslinger Trials DLC is now available for season pass holders

Defiance's Gunslinger Trials DLC is now available for season pass holders :
Filed under: Sci-Fi, Video, Game Mechanics, Launches, Patches, PvP, News Items, Defiance, Buy-to-Play Defiance's newest DLC, Gunslinger Trials, is now available for season pass holders on both the PC and Xbox 360. Forum

Friday, March 7, 2014

Elite: Dangerous discusses alpha plans and docking procedures

Elite: Dangerous discusses alpha plans and docking procedures :
Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Game Mechanics, Previews, News Items, Sandbox, Crowdfunding, Elite: Dangerous Did yesterday's hands-on preview of Elite: Dangerous get you excited for a chance to play the game yourself? Good

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Hands-on with the Elite: Dangerous alpha

Hands-on with the Elite: Dangerous alpha :
Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Galleries, Screenshots, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, PvE, Hands-On, First Impressions, Sandbox, Crowdfunding, Elite: Dangerous I don't have much history with Elite.

World of Tanks video shows off destructible physics, World of Warplanes update coming March 6

World of Tanks video shows off destructible physics, World of Warplanes update coming March 6 :
Filed under: Historical, Video, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Patches, PvP, News Items, War, Free-to-Play, World of Tanks Wargaming has released an eight-minute look at its physics upgrades for multiplayer battler World of

Monday, March 3, 2014

Loadout’s “billions” of weapon configurations bring in two million players in two weeks

Loadout’s “billions” of weapon configurations bring in two million players in two weeks :
Over two million users signed up for free-to-play shooter Loadout in its first 14 days of release, logging in over 9 million hours in the game, developer Edge of Reality has announced.The developer said that Loadout has been so

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Final wave of War Thunder Ground Forces beta begins, massive content update announced

Final wave of War Thunder Ground Forces beta begins, massive content update announced :
Filed under: Betas, Historical, Expansions, PvP, News Items, Free-to-Play, Player-Generated Content The third and final wave of War Thunder's closed beta for its Ground Forces expansion has begun. Eager tank drivers who have

A First-Person Zombie Shooter... On Facebook?


A First-Person Zombie Shooter... On Facebook? :
In case anyone is under the impression that Facebook gaming is all farms and candy crushing, zombie-killing epic Dead Trigger 2 has arrived to challenge that notion with extreme prejudice. Let's play!

Shooty-man: A candid catch-up with Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le

Shooty-man: A candid catch-up with Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le :
Gamasutra recently sat down to play some Counter Strike with series co-creator Minh Le, about the seminal FPS, his more recent work, and the perils of free-to-play. ...

February will be a big month for PlanetSide 2

February will be a big month for PlanetSide 2 :
Filed under: Sci-Fi, Patches, Previews, War, Free-to-Play, MMOFPS, PlanetSide 2 PlanetSide 2 continues to gain updates and new content. It's still pushing itself to be the best place to find massive battles with the most

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

GunZ 2: The Second Duel – Steam release schedule announced

GunZ 2: The Second Duel – Steam release schedule announced:
[Source] After a few months of delay, Korean developer Maiet Entertainment finally announced that GunZ 2: The Second Duel has been green lighted for Early Access on Feb 17 2014, 5 PM (PST). According to the official

Most people won't pay for World of Tanks on Xbox 360

Most people won't pay for World of Tanks on Xbox 360:
The majority of World of Tanks players on PC never spend a penny on the free-to-play strategy game and this trend isn't expected to change for the Xbox 360 version, released worldwide today. Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi told

Defiance previews the next DLC pack, Gunslinger Trials

Defiance previews the next DLC pack, Gunslinger Trials:
Filed under: Sci-Fi, Previews, News Items, Consoles, MMOFPS, Defiance, Buy-to-Play Some of the early story threads from Defiance's launch haven't been addressed. The nature of the Biodyne Project and control of the Earth

Free-to-play mech shooter Hawken abandons dedicated launcher, migrates to Steam

Free-to-play mech shooter Hawken abandons dedicated launcher, migrates to Steam:
After operating more than a year with its own dedicated launcher, free-to-play multiplayer mech combat game Hawken is coming exclusively to Steam.Developer Adhesive Games and publisher Meteror Entertainment said

Rock Band developer Harmonix reveals their next game: free-to-play FPS Chroma

Rock Band developer Harmonix reveals their next game: free-to-play FPS Chroma:
If you had to guess one of the games Harmonix has secretly been working on since Dance Central 3, your first guess would probably not be a "free-to-play, music-driven, first-person, multiplayer shooter" for PC and Steam. But that's

Harmonix's new jam is Chroma: A beatmatching first-person shooter

Harmonix's new jam is Chroma: A beatmatching first-person shooter:
Harmonix's new game is something you might not expect: A music-driven first-person shooter made in a partnership with the developers behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. ...

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Loadout Review

Loadout Review:
My first moments of Loadout could not have been more perfect. Entering a match, I found myself in a circle of players, made up of allies and opponents alike, staring each other down. As a disembodied voice began a five-second countdown, I quickly pieced together what would happen after it reached zero. The gruff, barbaric-looking horde that surrounded me equipped their preferred weapons, and as the timer stopped, there was a split second of deafening silence before the scene erupted in neon lasers, explosions, and showering viscera. This, in a nutshell, is Loadout at its finest, a game of occasional humor, immense violence, and things that go bang.