Tag Archives: Shooter

When we caught our first glimpse of The Darkness II back in March, we didn’t exactly see Jackie Estacado in his finest hour. Oh sure, he’d become a top crime boss since we’d seen him last, amassing his own “family” after being possessed by a demonic force known as the …

Yes! The Battlefield 3 beta is happening and everyone’s invited. Paaaaartaaaay! Actually, hang on. Not everyone’s invited. At least, not yet. If you pre-ordered a copy of the game via EA’s digital distribution service, Origin, then you’re invited right now. And if you purchased a copy of Medal of Honor …

(opens in new tab) Crytek said that Crysis was too “advanced” to run on consoles when it came out in 2007. Now, four short years later, the state of the industry has changed, and getting Crysis to run on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is more important than it …

The first sign of Gordon Freeman’s return was spotted by the Team Liquid community in leaked raw code for Valve’s Dota 2 beta. Among other random files, members found a folder entitled ‘ep3’ that contained alleged references to Episode 3 weapon types such as concrete, metal, and liquid. The files …

With Deus Ex: Human Revolution, we already have one excellent reboot of a much-loved ’90s cyberpunk franchise, and one which manages to freshen things up while also remaining totally true to the original to boot. And it seems that EA is in no way oblivious to that. It’s just that …

You see people, this is how you make an exciting video game announcement. You don’t put out an empty web-site with a countdown timer to a countdown timer to a countdown timer for a crap online puzzle that the world has to spend six months solving by providing free marketing …

Taking the stage at Call of Duty XP last night, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling let the crowd know that big changes are in the works for the Modern Warfare franchise, most of them relating to the games’ balance. Some of the biggest complaints from fans, he said, came from the …

In a low-gravity, non-atmospheric environment, zombies should be less threatening, slower, and easier to kill, right? In theory, maybe. But zombie anatomy research is an under-funded and often ridiculed branch of science, so there’s plenty we don’t know. In this final Black Ops DLC pack, the undead are taking the …

Hello and a very good Monday to you. Big week this week in gaming as we all get ready for Gamescom, not least Nathan who’s going to be over there in the middle of it all. But besides our tangible excitement (or as much as we can muster on a …

Apparently, Asia is full of buildings that explode lots – at least if the latest area of Bodycount is anything to go by. But if you’ve been followingour coverage (opens in new tab)up until now, you know all about the explosions, the exploding barrels and the fragile buildings standing next …