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Modern Warfare 2 does not live up to the hype that surrounded it before the release date and to the standard set by its predecessor, which was released in late 2007. It ticks all the points on the list: there are better graphics, there's a bigger “What the Hell?” moment, there are tougher characters,... |
20 November 2009
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Modern Warfare 2, the biggest videogame release of 2009, is set for November 10. But, as always, it is the best kept secrets that are most widely under assault and the title has apparently already arrived in the hands of some eager players, mainly from torrent sites but also from a few retail stores that have broken ... |
9 November 2009
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Infinity Ward has become a development studio associated with the Call of Duty brand and the Modern Warfare series. Their collaboration with Activision goes back a lot and players are already talking about Modern Warfare 2 and its 2011 release date. But it seems that the developers themselves might actually be intere... |
5 November 2009
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Earlier confirmed by Feral Interactive as headed to the Mac, Bioshock is now available as a free download as well, in the form of a demo version. Developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia, and originally published by 2K Games, Bioshock introduces gamers to a world filled with fascinating characters, intelligent enemies... |
5 November 2009
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The App Store has just made room for id Software’s iPhone port of DOOM, a classic, first-person shooter that should be welcomed by most handset owners and fans of the FPS genre. Priced at $6.99, the game is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later. “Welcome to Hell! Prepa... |
3 November 2009
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Battlefield: Bad Company developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts barely managed to escape being stoned to death by an angry mob of gamers, formed as a reaction to the decision the two companies made to charge for the in-game unlockable items. It looks like the mauling left some deep scars and made them remember ... |
30 October 2009
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It's not a pretty game. It's not about a hero and it's not about glory. The concept of Dragon Rising is a breath of fresh air, as it steps away from the cinematic depiction of war that games have started to portray exclusively and throws you in the middle of combat as a soldier should be, on a need to ... |
30 October 2009
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You may wonder why the diary starts at day four. Well there's a simple answer to that conundrum, my inquisitive friends. I've been too busy shooting everybody in the hat-mount to take notes. Seriously, since the game came out, Borderlands is the only thing I've been doing. I'm pretty sure somewher... |
30 October 2009
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As I mentioned before, I'm completely addicted to Borderlands. There's something about the game that really makes me want to come back for more. Endlessly more and more until I end up like one of those suicidal gamers that were found starved and exhausted to death in an arcade in front of a “Release s... |
28 October 2009
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Enticed by the “trexican dominatrix” joke in the intro, I decided to start my adventure with Borderlands as Mordecai. The sniper wielding, pistol drawer seemed like it would offer some nice gameplay, but I felt let down a little pretty quickly. Things start pretty easy for him, with the sniper as an excel... |
27 October 2009
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Announced back in September for the Macintosh platform, Bioshock is now available for Mac OS X, according to Feral Interactive. Developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia, and originally published by 2K Games, Bioshock introduces gamers to a world filled with fascinating characters, intelligent enemies and complex, mora... |
27 October 2009
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It seems that Epic Games is shifting its attention to the Unreal franchise soon and the official website of the developer, which has long created some of the most successful shooter series on both the PC and the various gaming consoles, is now displaying the image that is attached to this very article and the ingenio... |
23 October 2009
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Metro 2033 was initially announced in 2006, but things seemed to stay quiet otherwise. It had a release date of 2008, but, when it missed it, the game completely disappeared and went into hiding. Rescued from the blizzard of nuclear ash, it has been picked up for publishing by THQ and is now promised to return to the... |
23 October 2009
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A study reported by the New Scientist shows that gamers benefit from testosterone, which improves their performance and enhances their aggression, only when facing off against gamers that they perceive as being strangers, with testosterone levels plummeting when they are gaming against friends. The results are part o... |
2 October 2009
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Feral Interactive has announced that October 7 will see the release of Bioshock for Mac OS X, telling gamers to “prepare to descend to the depths of the undersea city of Rapture.” Feral Interactive is a publisher of games for Macintosh founded in 1996 and based in London, England. Developed by 2K Boston ... |
25 September 2009
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Codemasters released today a developer video for the sequel to Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, better known as simply Operation Flashpoint. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising gave away some of the technological wonders that it would encompass, through the “Fog of War” trailer that showcased the st... |
22 September 2009
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Disney held an event during which it revealed its plans for the future and it seems that one of the biggest news almost did not make it out. Steven Lisberger, who directed the last Tron movie, has confirmed that Disney is working on a videogame tie in for Tron Legacy, set to be released at the same time as the movie ... |
15 September 2009
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These days, most videogames are trying to attract some player input even before the title is out, usually via closed or open beta stages that iron out the last bugs and gauge the reaction coming on release day. But RAGE is pretty much confirmed as not featuring a multiplayer beta and id Software seems to be thinking ... |
26 August 2009
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The bad news is that Starcraft II is not coming out in 2009 and millions of real time strategy fans will find they have to look to an unknown date in 2010 for the sequel to the most loved RTS in the world. The good news is that the people at Blizzard are showing off features related to the game that will certainly se... |
24 August 2009
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Monolith Studios, as the developer, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, as the publisher, are announcing that F.E.A.R. 2 will be getting a new downloadable content pack set to expand the single player content of the shooter.The DLC will be called Reborn and is set to arrive on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the... |
4 August 2009
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Section 8 is marketed as being one of the games that will revolutionize multiplayer shooters on the Xbox 360 and the PC. It's being developed by TimeGate, which fought with Paramount over the idea, and published by SouthPeak. With the game set to be released on August 28, the developers are trying to emphasize w... |
10 July 2009
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Aspyr Media has announced the availability of Call of Duty Deluxe Edition for Intel Macs. The first-person shooter is now available as a download through Aspyr's digital distribution portal (GameAgent.com) and contains the original Call of Duty and its expansion pack, Call of Duty: United Offensive. Licensed by ... |
29 June 2009
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Gearbox Software, in an unusual move, has confirmed that it plans to release its newest shooter, called Borderlands, sometime in October 2009. The game has been in development for quite some and it was initially announced in September 2007.Since then, the company has made some interesting and sweeping changes to Bord... |
9 June 2009
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GSC Game World is sending word that it is working on a new project in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, which is set to be launched on the PC during the autumn of 2009. At the moment, the name of the game is S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat but that could change as the release date draws near.The third game in the series tha... |
4 May 2009
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After Konami, as the publisher, and Atomic Games, as the developer, announced that they planned to create and release a videogame called Six Days in Fallujah, a great deal of outrage was expressed, coming both from anti war coalitions and from people who served with the United States Army in Iraq.Their main complaint... |
13 April 2009
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Id Software has released an open-source port of Wolfenstein for the iPhone. The paid version of the app (for non-jailbroken users) is also available in the iTunes App Store. Id Software published a lengthy letter from John Carmack in which the developer explains how Wolfenstein for iPhone came about. The source code ... |
25 March 2009
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Bohemia Interactive, as the developer, and 505 Games, as the publisher, are announcing that the presentation of the factions which will appear in Armed Assault 2, also known as ArmA 2, is now completed. We know the six sides that will be making an appearance as the military simulator is launched later in 2009.The Nat... |
17 March 2009
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There's a bitter war between the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, as, although the Japanese console has the advantage of hardware power, it hasn't been backed up by many game designers like its North American counterpart. But when the Xbox 360 received the blockbuster Gears of War shooter, which propelled it... |
6 March 2009
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Thriller Publishing was founded last year by three veterans of PC gaming company MicroProse, which was renowned for the quality of the real time strategy it launched. The stated aim of the entity was to co opt authors that created best selling military and espionage thrillers in order to collaborate with them on new ... |
5 March 2009
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As you’ve surely heard, Quake Live has left its closed beta days behind and is now available for the open public. Back in those good old days, I wrote a behind-the-scenes article about Quake Live, with detailed screenshots of the beta website and game. But as I came to find out, a lot of things have changed in ... |
3 March 2009
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The release of F.E.A.R. 2 was partially obscured by the launch of Killzone 2. The two games are very different beasts but the general label of first person shooter has been applied to both, leaving F.E.A.R. 2, which is more of a cross over between shooter and horror, at a disadvantage. The fact that the game felt som... |
3 March 2009
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The people at Wolfire Games have announced the release of a classic first person shooter for iPhone and iPod touch, called Black Shades. The title is dirt cheap (just 99 cents), and offers “intense” first person shooting action, complete with multiple weapons to choose from, bullet-time events, realistic ... |
27 February 2009
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No need for "an original game," no need to keep a CD close or search the Internet for a downloadable version! To play this game, all you need is a PC running Windows XP or Vista, a browser (Firefox or Internet Explorer) and a good Internet connection. Quake Live is a first person shooter that allows you to frag your ... |
24 February 2009
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DICE seems to be one of the most important development studios for Electronic Arts at the moment. The company has already said that it plans to create a new Battlefield: Bad Company title based on the same Frostbite engine but with more destruction, which is set to arrive in 2010, and Mirror's Edge 2, a sequel t... |
9 February 2009
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DICE has announced the first details related to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the game confirmed as coming in 2010 by Electronic Arts. The development studio put out a press release detailing the new elements in the second game in the series that began in 2008 with a fun but limited adventure, which has been reviewed b... |
6 February 2009
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What is a new first-person shooter without a catchy name? The latest Blood Frontier game stirs the curiosity of its players by using this original title and by offering some new and interesting gaming features that most of the time come with a price tag and not for free.If you still haven't noticed yet, Blood Fr... |
6 February 2009
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Speculating on upcoming projects based on limited information is one of the favorite past times of videogaming fans and of those reporting game-related news. BioShock was one of the most lauded titles of 2007, so it's only normal to keep an eye on the developers of the Rapture-based shooter, the people working a... |
3 February 2009
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SouthPeak is releasing more information on its upcoming shooter, called Section 8, set to focus on the exploits of space marines fighting and dying somewhere at the edge of the galaxy sometime in the future.Section 8 is set to depict the actions of one unit in a war between the Empire and the Arm of Orion in the Fron... |
30 January 2009
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When the original Killzone was released, everyone, including Sony, called it a “Halo killer.” When the game was launched for the PlayStation 2, it received mixed reviews. It was certainly a good first person shooter that put the players in the combat boots of a series of International Strategic Alliance s... |
23 January 2009
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, as the publisher, and Monolith Games, as the developers, are announcing that a demo version of their upcoming first person shooter F.E.A.R. 2 will be released on January 22 on all the platforms on which the game will be launched, meaning the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the ... |
19 January 2009
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Call of Duty: World at War, the World War II shooter developed by Treyarch using the engine created by Infinity Ward for Modern Warfare and published by Activision, proved a big success with gamers, challenging the likes of Gears of War 2 and Wii Fit in terms of sales over 2008. One might say that the game managed to... |
19 January 2009
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Graham Joyce, a well known English novelist specialized in a cross among horror, fantasy and sci fi, has been named by id Software in charge of the script of Doom 4, the next installment in the series that defined and then re-defined the way we look at the first person view, demons and shooters.Graham Joyce has a rep... |
19 January 2009
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Sony announced that the PlayStation 3 demo for the upcoming F.E.A.R. 2 first person shooter from Monolith would only be available for those users who have a subscription to the Qore multimedia gaming magazine launched for the platform sometime last year.The demo is set to arrive this week, although no official date i... |
12 January 2009
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Back in 2000, id Software released a revolutionary game that set the standard for first person shooters for a while. Quake 3 entered the market and dazzled everyone with its revolutionary graphical engine. Never before had we seen such a dynamic game that took serious skills to maneuver properly.The source code behin... |
16 December 2008
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The PlayStation 3, the home gaming console made by Sony, is looking for a game release big enough to counter the Xbox 360 exclusive launch of Gears of War 2, one of the most loved shooter franchises on the market. The two big candidates for Gears killer have been Resistance 2 and Killzone 2.Unfortunately, the former ... |
8 December 2008
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Ubisoft announces that Far Cry 2 has broken through the one million sales barrier less than three weeks after the game was released worldwide. The game is available for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and Ubisoft is now willing to say which platform generated the most sales, even though we're willing ... |
12 November 2008
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There's a trend in PC gaming which says that as soon as a game comes out, a patch is needed to tweak some aspects which somehow turned out wrong. Sometimes, a patch is required to stop game crashing bugs, game mechanics don't work as previously announced or players demand more control over one part of the g... |
12 November 2008
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Recently, Robert Bowling, the director of communication at Infinity Ward, launched a somewhat heated tirade against Noah Heller from Activision, telling him to stop referencing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which was made by Infinity Ward, in all his interviews related to the launch of Call of Duty: World at War, w... |
11 November 2008
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Activision is trying to get a game off the ground taking advantage of the United States presidential elections. The game is called Secret Service and aims to allow the player to become a Secret Service agent who must protect the leaders of the nation as Washington D.C. is attacked by dangerous terrorists on Ina... |
14 October 2008
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High Voltage Software is putting out a few new details regarding its shooter for the Nintendo Wii called The Conduit, which is supposed to be the first hardcore focused action game for the platform.Talking to the MTV Multiplayer blog, Eric Nofsinger, the Chief Operations Officer of High Voltage, said that they aim to... |
9 October 2008
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