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Sine Mora Out in March for the Xbox 360, Gets Classy Trailer

Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality are set to finally deploy their shoot’em up arcade game Sine Mora on the Xbox 360 next month, on March 21. Not a lot has been known about Sine Mora up until recently but the fact that it’s being developed by two impressive companies, Grasshopper Manufacture, le...

29 February 2012
03:06 GMT

Far Cry 3 Has an XP System and Side Quests

Sharing some more details about its upcoming Far Cry 3 first person shooter, Ubisoft has confirmed that the game has a full-fledged XP system. It also features plenty of side quests that reveal more details about the island on which the title’s action takes place. Far Cry 3 was revealed last year but only rece...

28 February 2012
10:31 GMT

Max Payne Shaved Head Look Crucial to Storytelling

The shaved head look that Max Payne is adopting for his third video game outing has annoyed some fans, but the developers working on the game at Rockstar believe that it serves a clear purpose, to show how the hero’s emotions evolve as the game progresses. Speaking with G4 Rob Nelson, who is the art director w...

27 February 2012
16:31 GMT

Far Cry 3’s Open World Won’t Overwhelm Players

Ubisoft has shared some more details about Far Cry 3, the upcoming first person shooter, and how it will feature an open world that’s not as expansive as the one from the previous game, which saw players explore miles of African territory. Far Cry 3 is looking very impressive, at least judging by recent screen...

27 February 2012
13:31 GMT

Art Director Says First Borderlands Was Too Restrictive

Jeremy Cooke, who is the art director working on Borderlands 2 at Gearbox, has stated that the first game in the series was too restrictive when it came to how it allowed players to engage with the weapon system.Speaking to IGN he stated, “We tried to be a little less like ‘you really want to use this typ...

25 February 2012
09:41 GMT

Ubisoft Releases Believe in Ghosts Trailer for Ghost Recon

Video game publisher Ubisoft has launched a new trailer for its upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier shooter, designed to show how close the virtual experience the game offers will be to how the elite forces of the real world operate. The video is narrated by Richard Machowicz, a former Navy trained SEAL operator, w...

24 February 2012
07:10 GMT

Electronic Arts and Crytek Working on New Video Game

Video game developer Crytek and publisher Electronic Arts seem to be working on a whole new video game project, as suggested by a new job listing which seeks a new video editor for a studio in Guilford, United Kingdom. The job ad says that knowledge of the CryEngine is an asset for those who apply and that the perso...

22 February 2012
02:25 GMT

Unit 13 Review (PS Vita)

Unit 13 is a straight up third-person shooter with stealth game elements that Sony published for their new PlayStation Vita handheld, with the actual development work done by Zipper Interactive, team best known for their work on the SOCOM series of games on the PlayStation 2 and 3 home consoles and on the original Pl...

21 February 2012
17:21 GMT

Starbreeze Loses 25 Employees After Syndicate Completion

Starbreeze, the Sweden-based developer working with publisher Electronic Arts on the reboot for Syndicate, has announced that it has laid off 25 employees following the completion of the game. This represents about one quarter of the people directly employed by Starbreeze and Peter Tornquist, who is the chairman for...

20 February 2012
10:05 GMT

Ubisoft and TrackMania Devs Offer First Look at ShootMania

The developers at Nadeo and publisher Ubisoft have offered a small amount of information and the first image linked to their upcoming project, called ShootMania Storm, which will use the same basic concepts as TrackMania and will be part of the bigger ManiaPlanet franchise. The game will take the core elements of th...

17 February 2012
12:11 GMT

Incoming 2012: Syndicate

What we know: Syndicate was a tactical video game that allowed players to control a team of agents in a hyper-violent future world. But the remake takes the name and the theme of a future dominated by corporations that are in a state of continuous low-level warfare and morphs the rest into a first-person shooter wit...

16 February 2012
10:41 GMT

Binary Domain Gets Slum Kids Cutscene Trailer

The developers at the Yakuza Studio and video game publisher SEGA have released yet another video linked to their upcoming team based shooter Binary Domain, an actual cutscene taken from the game, designed to show off the human side of the story the game is telling. The description of the cut scene from SEGA reads &...

16 February 2012
06:24 GMT

Far Cry 3 Gets More Details, Focuses on Freedom and Hallucinations

Far Cry 3 is due for a launch later during 2012, but the developers working on the game and publisher Ubisoft have not offered too much information on it up until now, preferring to surround the game with a wall of mystery. Edge Magazine has managed to get a closer look at the game and some of the information publis...

15 February 2012
17:31 GMT

Binary Domain Gets Two Mission Demo Tomorrow

Video game publisher SEGA has announced that tomorrow players who are interested in the upcoming squad shooter Binary Domain will be able to see what the game has to offer via demo which will be offered on the Xbox 360 via the Live service and on the PlayStation 3 through the PSN.The demo version of Binary Domain wil...

14 February 2012
06:22 GMT

Binary Domain Gets Multiplayer Trailer

Developers Ryu ga Gotoku Studio and publisher SEGA have released another trailer for Binary Domain, their third-person shooter with robotic themes, showing players interested in the idea what they can expect from the multiplayer game mode. The footage shows squads from the resistance movement and the government faci...

14 February 2012
02:29 GMT

The Darkness II Confirmed for Mac OS X

2K Games' Darkness II is coming to Mac OS X this March, TransGaming has announced. The game is inspired by the popular comic book series produced by Top Cow Productions. Described as “an intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and superna...

13 February 2012
14:21 GMT

Rosario Dawson and Brian Cox Lead Cast of Syndicate

Video game publisher Electronic Arts and Starbreeze Studios have announced that well known Hollywood stars Rosario Dawson and Brian Cox have been chosen to lend their voices to the characters of the upcoming shooter Syndicate. Dawson, seen in Sin City, Grindhouse and The 25th Hour, will be voicing Lily Drawl, one of...

11 February 2012
03:37 GMT

Spec Ops: The Line Keen on Horror, Violence Justified by War

Spec Ops: The Line aims to tell a story inspired from Heart of Darkness that uses the first-person medium to deliver it, but the team at Yager is keen on making sure that gore and over-the-top violence do not become the main sealing points for the game. Shawn Frison, who is the senior designer working on Spec Ops: T...

10 February 2012
17:41 GMT

Activision Says New Bungie Game Shows Incredible Progress

Both video game developer Bungie and publisher Activision Blizzard have been very tight lipped when it comes to the new project they are collaborating on, but fans of the company behind Halo will be happy to know that progress is being made at an incredible pace. Despite the upbeat attitude neither of the two compan...

10 February 2012
07:02 GMT

MLG Announces Halo: Reach for Winter Championship

The Major League Gaming association has announced that the upcoming Winter Championships event will see Halo: Reach return as a competitive video game franchise, with players able to compete with each other for a prize pool that comes in at 56,000 dollars (42,089 Euro). The Winter Championship will take place betwee...

10 February 2012
02:27 GMT

Incoming 2012: Binary Domain

What we know: Binary Domain is a third-person squad-based shooter that is being published by SEGA and developed by the newly formed Yakuza Studio, which is actually headed by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the man behind the successful, long-running Japanese open world action game. The game takes place in the Tokyo of 2080 with...

9 February 2012
18:31 GMT

Starhawk Limited Edition Available for Pre-Order, Includes Code for Warhawk

Sony has announced a Starhawk Limited Edition that will be sold through GameStop and all those who pre-order the game will be upgraded to it at no extra cost, while also getting a code that gives access to Warhawk. The Limited Edition includes: - Maw of Despair Outcast Pack – comes with the Maw of Despair co-...

8 February 2012
07:56 GMT

Longer Development Time Would Have Benefitted the New Syndicate Game

Starbreeze Studios, the developer of the upcoming Syndicate first person shooter, has confirmed that, although the game is quite impressive, a longer development time would have made the whole experience that much more satisfying. Electronic Arts and Starbreeze surprised lots of old school gamers with the announcem...

7 February 2012
10:01 GMT

Rumor Mill: Electronic Arts Prepares New Populous, Respawn Shooter, Outernauts

A user from the gaming-oriented forum NeoGAF has claimed to have seen information on a page which details the launch plans that publisher Electronic Arts has for the next 12 months, including a number of unannounced titles like a new Populous, Outernauts and Respawn. Populous is the most interesting name of the list...

6 February 2012
02:22 GMT

Incoming 2012: Max Payne 3

What we know: Max Payne 3 was first shown off in 2008 and Take Two was adamant about the fact that it would be launched one year later, before first delaying it to 2010, then the fall of 2011 and now the middle part of this year. The developers have promised that the core of the third-person shooter game will again...

31 January 2012
18:21 GMT

2K Marin Working on New IP Alongside XCOM

The development studio 2K Marin is apparently working on a new intellectual property at the same time as they are developing the shooter based on the XCOM universe. References to the new project have been found in the resume of Hogarth De La Plante, who is the co-founder of 2K Marin and is one of the leading develop...

30 January 2012
13:41 GMT

Quick Look: Ballistic (With Gameplay Video)

Radian Games has decided to follow up on its highly successful Super Crossfire arcade shooter with quite a few new games. Among them, there is Ballistic, a gorgeous twin-stick shooter that tasks players with surviving wave upon wave of different types of enemies. We decided to give Ballistic a try and see if it&rsqu...

27 January 2012
17:21 GMT

Incoming 2012: Resistance Burning Skies

What we know:Resistance is one of the big PlayStation brand exclusives that Sony has been cultivating since the launch of the second home console in the line-up and, with the upcoming launch of the Vita handheld, the series will get yet another outing with Burning Skies, a game which returns the player to the initial...

23 January 2012
18:41 GMT

Super Crossfire Review (PC)

Super Crossfire is a title made by Radian Games that was recently a part of the Indie Royale New Year Bundle, alongside other impressive independent games.  Promising to innovate on the traditional arcade shooter genre by allowing your ship to teleport from the bottom of the screen to the top, and vice-versa, t...

20 January 2012
08:25 GMT

Incoming 2012: Borderlands 2

What we know:Borderlands was a surprising hit in 2009 and Gearbox is hoping to deliver another impressive and addictive game this year with a sequel that takes players back to Pandora and refines all the significant gameplay mechanics.For starters, the four character classes we know from the original are gone, replac...

13 January 2012
19:41 GMT

Developer Says Binary Domain Will Revolutionize Shooter Genre

Japanese development teams are not known for creating complex shooter experiences but the development team at the SEGA Yakuza studio hope to change this perception with their upcoming project Binary Domain. Masayoshi Kikuchi, who is a producer at SEGA working on Binary Domain, has told CVG that, “The genre was...

10 January 2012
02:48 GMT

James Bond: Skyfall Movie Will Get Video Game Tie-In

The Empire movie magazine has revealed, during a longer feature on the franchise, that the upcoming James Bond: Skyfall movie is set to get a video game tie-in, which will be published by Activision Blizzard, the company which currently holds the rights to the virtual representations of the characters.It’s not ...

4 January 2012
10:41 GMT

Ghost Warrior 2 Focuses on Feedback from Sniper Fan Community

Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a rather divisive game, with some players and reviewers liking the focus on covert sniper operations while others called the gameplay limited and criticized the look of the game, but the developers at City Interactive are ready to show what their series could deliver in the sequel, which is ...

28 December 2011
04:21 GMT

STALKER Developer GSC Game World Might Not Shut Down After All

GSC Game World, the Ukrainian developer responsible for the popular STALKER series, has released a small statement, saying that “there is still cause for hope” as the studio may not shut down after all. The STALKER series, comprised of the original game, plus its prequel and sequel, in the form of Clear ...

27 December 2011
02:42 GMT

Sony Is Taking Applications for the Beta Stage of PlanetSide 2

Video game publisher and developer Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it is now accepting applications for the upcoming beta stage of the MMO PlanetSide 2.In order to get into the draw for the beta stage gamers need to first create a Sony Online Entertainment Station account and then head to the official we...

23 December 2011
03:07 GMT

Feral Announces BioShock 2 for Mac OS X

Feral Interactive has announced the Mac version of its genetically enhanced role-playing shooter, BioShock 2. The game will be released for Mac OS X in January 2012.BioShock 2 continues the story of the first installment with new dual wielding gameplay, new plasmids, and a Big Sister chasing you all the way throughou...

22 December 2011
10:25 GMT

Respawn Entertainment Releases Blurry Teaser Image for New Project

The developers at Respawn Entertainment, the company created by the original creators of the Modern Warfare series, has released a second rather blurry image that is designed to act as a teaser for their new video game project.The image, which you can see attached to this article, doesn’t tell us anything concr...

21 December 2011
04:17 GMT

Mail.ru Will operate Crytek’s Warface in Russia

Video game developer Crytek and the Internet services company Mail.ro Group have announced that they are working together on launching the Warface first person shooter in both Russia and a number of other countries of the CIS area during 2012.Warface is free-to-play and is focused on online action with the developers...

19 December 2011
16:31 GMT

APB Reloaded Gets More than 3 Million Players in One Week

Publisher GamerFirst has announced that APB Reloaded, the action oriented MMO that was re-launched during last week, has managed to get more than 3 million registered players in less than seven days, mostly because of its use of the free-to-play business model. The company also revealed that APB Reloaded was the sec...

16 December 2011
22:31 GMT

Epic Games Fortnite Has No Dudebros, Offers New Art Style

At the VGA show developer Epic Games, best known for their work on the long running Gears of War franchise, has shown off its new intellectual property, called Fortnite, which seems to mix team based action with a more cartoon like art style and with a lot of mechanics taken from tower defense.Speaking about Fortnite...

12 December 2011
20:51 GMT

Gearbox Plans Distinct Loot System for Borderlands 2

The developers at Gearbox working on Borderlands 2 are interested in keeping the core mechanics of the franchise relevant while making sure that players have access to more content than in the original video game.Scott Kester, who is a the concept designer working on Borderlands at Gearbox, told the 2K TV show that, ...

9 December 2011
22:41 GMT

Future Electronic Arts Shooters Might Focus Story on Current Conflicts

The most successful first-person shooters of the current year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, all adopted near future narratives as their setting of choice, but one leading executive believes that current conflicts could also make for very good stories.Frank Gibeau, who is the leader of the EA Labe...

7 December 2011
02:03 GMT

Itagaki Attacks Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3

Tomonobu Itagaki, who is the main developer working on Devil’s Third at Valhalla Games, says that the game’s focus on realism when it comes to military hardware will make it stand out from the shooter crowd.The developer told Gamasutra that realism is missing in games like Modern Warfare 3, stating, &ldqu...

5 December 2011
04:19 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies Released for iPhone, iPad

“The Call of Duty: Zombies phenomenon has risen back to life,” say the people at Activision who have just released this game in the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad.Priced at $6.99 and seemingly available only for the U.S. market at the time of this writing, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is adapted ...

2 December 2011
12:21 GMT

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Will Not be Launched on the PC, Piracy to Blame

Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that it will not be launching a PC version of its upcoming shooter Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, focusing resources instead on the development of the free-to-play Ghost Recon Online.Sébastien Arnoult, who is the producer for Ghost Recon Online, told PC Gamer that, &ldq...

25 November 2011
17:41 GMT

Gotham City Impostors Arrives in January for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has confirmed a release date for its upcoming Gotham City Impostors, the online first person shooter where players can disguise themselves either as Batman or The Joker and engage in different sorts of matches.Warner Bros. wants to take its Batman license in new directions, not ...

14 November 2011
03:15 GMT

New Call of Duty Game Coming In 2012

To the surprise of actually no one, Activision has confirmed that 2012 will see the release of a brand new Call of Duty game, although no actual details have been given by the large games publisher.The Call of Duty series has just seen its newest installment, Modern Warfare 3, appear yesterday and, judging by first e...

9 November 2011
12:01 GMT

Rainbow Six: Patriots Now Official, Coming in 2013 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

Ubisoft, after many rumors and intense speculation, has finally revealed the new Rainbow Six: Patriots title, the next installment in its very successful tactical first person shooter series, which takes the franchise into a new direction, pitting Team Rainbow against a group called the True Patriots, that want to en...

4 November 2011
17:51 GMT

Syndicate Remake Is Still Possible, EA Says

Electronic Arts believes its Syndicate franchise, which is preparing to receive a full pledged reboot appear in early 2012, might still see a remake of the older strategy titles, if the new game manages to raise awareness for the series.EA and Starbreeze Studios definitely made some waves earlier this year when they ...

25 October 2011
14:21 GMT

Syndicate Walkthrough Shows Mind Hacking

Video game publisher released a new Syndicate walkthrough video that allows gamers who are interested in the game to see quite a bit of what it has to offer in terms of gameplay.Syndicate was a Bullfrog created mix between strategy and tactics but the current version seems to be more interested in putting players in ...

14 October 2011
07:59 GMT


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