Tag Archives: Shooter

Sony’s just released a new story trailer for Resistance: Burning Skies, Nihilistic Software’s Vita-bound addition to the popular alt-history FPS series. The trailer’s narrated from the POV of the game’s protagonist, Staten Island firefighter Tom Riley, single-handedly fighting off the Chimera Invasion with a variety of increasingly non-standard-issue weaponry – …

Irrational Games has unveiled the next “Heavy Hitter” scheduled to make life a little harder for Booker and Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite. Remember how last week we said the Motorized Patriot was Columbia’s Big Daddy? Looks like we spoke too soon… The Handyman enemy type gets its moniker from its …

Infinity Ward’s dated the Xbox 360 version of the first Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection with this new trailer. Come March 20 – which, gosh, is just over a week away – MW3 fans who’ve held off on subscribing to Activision’s Call of Duty Elite service will be able to …

What is it? It’s the return of the king of online first-person shooters. Bringing back familiar maps like Dusk and Office, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pits terrorist and counter-terrorist players against each other in the recognizable demolition and hostage modes while adding several new hybrid gameplay modes and complimentary maps. Who …

“What do we keep? What do we throw away? What do we add?” For the first time in a decade, Halo is poised to evolve, and this behind-the-scenes documentary from new developer 343 Industries is our first truly in-depth look at what major changes could be in store for the …

Real actual army-soldier Rob Riggle presumably knows a thing or two about the business of Marining: you don’t make Lieutenant Colonel by setting off claymores or absorbing Pavelow attacks, after all. Indeed, the Marine-slash-comedian’s skills are such that he can apparently stand in the middle of Modern Warfare 3’s next …

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences conducted its 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (IAA) in Vegas last night, capping the 2012 DICE. Summit with a tribute to 2011’s top games and game makers. Chief amongst the night’s winners was Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (opens in new tab), …

The two purposes of a game map are to show you which direction you should be heading towards and more importantly, to indicate which area you’re yet to loot for power-ups and collectibles. But some maps are made with so much love and serve up so many with original ideas …

(opens in new tab) 2011 was another successful year for Valve, which announced today that its digital games distribution service Steam enjoyed its seventh year of over 100% sales growth. The announcement follows news of another milestone for the service, which hit a record peak of 5 million concurrent users …

Yesterday we got the news that Modern Warfare 3’s first DLC will hit Xbox 360 at the end of January. You can read about it in the news story that we posted. We also got a single screenshot of a map called Park. We looked at that screenshot and immediately …