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Bioshock for Mac OS X Available October 7th

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
06:01 GMT

Operation Flashpoint 2, The Dragon Rises with Stunning Beauty

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
16:01 GMT

Tron Legacy Videogame in Development

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
02:41 GMT

No Multiplayer Beta for RAGE, Demo Discussed

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
13:31 GMT

Starcraft II Map Editor Can Create FPS, RPG Videogames

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
18:11 GMT

F.E.A.R. 2 Is Getting Reborn in Single Player

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
04:15 GMT

Section 8 Has Dedicated PC Servers for Xbox 360 Game

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
12:51 GMT

Downloadable Call of Duty Deluxe for Mac OS X Now Available

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
04:26 GMT

Borderlands Really, Really Coming in October

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
14:31 GMT

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Coming This Fall

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
14:31 GMT

Six Days in Fallujah Supported by Some Military Men

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
16:11 GMT

Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone Is Free on Cydia, $4.99 on App Store

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
11:07 GMT

ArmA 2 Reveals All Factions

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
14:11 GMT

Resistance 2

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
04:30 GMT

MicroProse Veterans Ready to Create a MMO FPS

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
16:41 GMT

Quake Live Open Beta - Latest News & Improvements

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
12:01 GMT

F.E.A.R. 2 Close to Getting Patched

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
03:19 GMT

iPhone Gets Black Shades

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
06:43 GMT

Quake Live - Freeware Online Game and Portal

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
04:01 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Released by April, 1943 Coming in 2010

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
03:07 GMT

First Details Revealed about Battlefield: Bad Company 2

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
16:31 GMT

A New FPS with a Lot of Potential

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
12:01 GMT

2K Boston Might Be Working on a MMO Shooter

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
04:06 GMT

Join Section 8 and See the Galaxy

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
02:30 GMT

Coming Attractions: Killzone 2

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
15:11 GMT

F.E.A.R. 2 Demo Arrives on January 22

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
14:12 GMT

Patch Not Coming Soon for PC Version of Call of Duty

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
04:42 GMT

id Software Hires Novelist to Create Story for Doom 4

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
03:07 GMT

F.E.A.R. 2 Demo Exclusive for Qore Subscribers

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
12:31 GMT

OpenArena: A FPS Based on Tradition

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
12:01 GMT

Killzone 2 Launches on February 27

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
18:21 GMT

Far Cry 2 Sells More than One Million

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
05:25 GMT

Call of Duty: World at War Gets Patch 1.1

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
04:50 GMT

Call of Duty Success Due to Internal Competition

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
03:58 GMT

Join the Activision Secret Service

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
03:48 GMT

The Conduit Will Support Wii Speak and Motion Plus

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
09:01 GMT

Impressions: Quantum of Solace

There's a demo of the upcoming Quantum of Solace videogame in the wild and, because of a certain interest in all things Bond and Call of Duty powered, I got it this morning and played it. It seems interesting at first sight and we could just have on our hands the beginning of another long and successful franchis...

8 October 2008
19:31 GMT

Five Hours to Bungie Halo Announcement

Man, the people at Bungie really know how to tease us gamers. A few days ago, they launched yet another of their brain bending teaser series which set to culminate later today in an announcement which most of us hope will be related to the next Halo game.It all started way back on September 19, when the Bungie site p...

25 September 2008
05:04 GMT

Quantum of Solace Released on November 4

I am usually highly skeptical when it comes to videogames that tie in with big Hollywood movies. The quality of, let's say, Iron Man the game is far below that of Iron Man the  movie. But Quantum of Solace, the videogame which is going to be published by Activision, kinda looks like more than a money maker ...

24 September 2008
07:45 GMT

Far Cry 2 Developer Details Multiplayer

Louis-Pierre Pharand, who is a producer on Far Cry 2, talked to Eurogamer and its readers and revealed that the game would have four distinct multiplayer modes. The now classic options of Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch will be in the game, with the entire 50 square kilometers of the world or just a portion of it ava...

23 September 2008
21:31 GMT

Discover What Kind of Gamer You Are with GamerDNA

Recently, a new site called GamerDNA emerged and it aims to uncover the patterns in behaviors and attitudes in the case of gamers, all this through a series of tests that focus on different kinds of genres like the all too popular MMOs, shooters or strategy games. It is also meant to be a different kind of social net...

22 September 2008
20:01 GMT

America's Army Brought to High Schools in the Interest of Education

America's Army is a videogame developed by the United States Army in order to promote their programs and training to the young people of America. Although many critics have said that it is nothing less than a propaganda meant to get young people recruited into the Army, the game really caught on, due to the fact...

22 September 2008
19:01 GMT

Analyze That: Shooters Are Not as Popular as Rhythm Games

We discussed yesterday about a new Pew study which talks about how teens approach videogames and how they are affected by the experiences they get from them. The study says that both social skills and interest in the community and ethics can be boosted by playing games, both alone and with other people.According...

18 September 2008
17:21 GMT

Fracture Demo Coming in Late September

LucasArts promises to release a demo of its upcoming Fracture via the Xbox Live service from Microsoft and via the PlayStation Network from Sony on September 18. The move is designed to create awareness about the title in the gaming community and help build up hype for the release which is scheduled for October 7.The...

11 September 2008
16:11 GMT

F.E.A.R. Is Back in the Hands of Monolith

Monolith is sending word that it has reacquired the rights to use the F.E.A.R. name and that is has decided to rename Project Origin F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin to better show the link between the original game and the sequel which is currently in production.The original F.E.A.R. was also made by Monolith but, at the...

10 September 2008
04:49 GMT

It's Gold for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, will be released worldwide on the 5th of September this year, after going gold, according to GSC World Publishing and Deep Silver. This highly anticipated prequel to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was initially slated for a late August release, but we all know that game developers generally te...

19 August 2008
04:33 GMT

Action Awaits in Space Trader - Merchant Marine

Space Trader is a really promising FPS action/trading game with eye candy visuals and a really interesting concept that lacked one major thing: a publisher. Fortunately, the problem has just been solved, since indie developers Hermitworks Entertainment have signed a distribution agreement with Meridian4 and I must sa...

18 August 2008
04:17 GMT

CORE Release Date Announced

Classic first person shooter action, single- and multiplayer modes plus tons of fun: that is what CORE promises to bring exclusively on the Nintnedo DS. The game is the debut project from developer NoWay Studio and it will be released in October 2008, just before the Christmas sales.In the game, you take the role of ...

14 August 2008
02:23 GMT

Control the Raven Squad in Operation Hidden Dagger

Distributor SouthPeak Games is saying that it has commissioned developer Atomic Motion to create a new game called Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger, which is set to be a combination of real time strategy and first person shooter. The game aims to offer something interesting to the fans of the two genres.Melanie M...

4 July 2008
14:06 GMT

Marathon: Durandal Achievements (Xbox 360)

Marathon: Durandal is an Xbox Live Arcade game, a re-imagination of the '95 classic Marathon 2: Durandal. It is a sci-fi first person shooter (FPS) released on the 1st of August 2007 by Bungie. The game costs 800 MS Points ($10) on Microsoft's platform.Apart from being an excellent platform on which indie g...

4 July 2008
11:46 GMT


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