Tag Archives: Shooter

Dear ex-babysitter: Describing 1996’s Resident Evil as “a cool game where you play as a secret agent and fight snakes and stuff” to a 10-year-old kid was kind of fucked up. Especially when said 10-year-old a) loves video games, and b) is particularly sensitive to scary things. Laugh all you …

2K Marin, the developer of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and BioShock 2, has laid off a number of its employees. 2K Games addressed the staff reductions in a statement to Polygon. “We can confirm staff reductions at 2K Marin,” the publisher said. “While these were difficult decisions, we regularly evaluate …

Activision has released a new Call of Duty: Ghosts trailer focusing on the game’s clan features, which the publisher bills as an integral part of the game’s multiplayer experience. You can join and manage your clan in-game or using an upcoming Call of Duty app. The headline feature is Clan …

Activision has released a Call of Duty: Ghosts trailer showing off the series’ new Squads mode. Across various game types it combines solo play, competitive multiplayer and cooperative play, with squads often complemented by AI team mates or opponents. Players create a squad of soldiers and earn XP to rank …

The wisecracking foursome of Bad Company will return in future Battlefield games, Polygon reports. DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson said that the games are a welcome respite from the serious military action of the mainline battlefield series. “My feeling is that I would love to do it. For me, when …

The Division is taking a cutthroat approach to player vs. player battle. Ubisoft’s next-gen, online, open-world shooter makes players comb through a quarantined city to collect gear and supplies. That makes each encounter, where players can lose their hard-fought stuff to other players, particularly thrilling. “We want player versus player …

Irrational Games has explained how playing as Elizabeth will differ from playing as Booker in upcoming BioShock: Infinite DLC. The recently announced Buried at Sea will be a two-part campaign add-on which sees Booker and Elizabeth return to Rapture before the fall of the underwater city that served as the …

(opens in new tab) Arma 3 will be available in digital and retail stores worldwide from September 12, Bohemia Interactive has announced. However, the studio has also confirmed that the tactical military shooter will release without its single player campaign, which is set to be delivered across three free post-launch …

Gotta spend money to make money One of the biggest complaints from game publishers this generation has been the rising cost of development. Its all too easy to spend tens of millions of dollars on AAA games, leading to the crazy scenario of a release being deemed below sales expectations …

It’s almost impossible, at first, to hold any scorn for Rise of the Triad, Interceptor Entertainment’s modern update of the cult classic twitch shooter. The silly one-liners, absurdly fast movement speed, and cheesy shred metal soundtrack all hark back to the days when shooters had rich color palettes and didn’t …