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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
06:59 GMT |
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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
11:00 GMT |
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All those that were made to feel unconformable by Cho Aniki are in for a heart-throbbing shock. Aksys Games has announced that it plans to port the game over to the PlayStation Portable for North Americans as well. The truly unique shooter will be available as a downloadable item and is bound to stir some old feeling... |
26 October 2009
07:32 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of those games that were so good they turned people into psychotic fans. The game in itself is a huge cement truck of “fun” distilled through twisting glass tubes until it could fit a game box. The frantic survival zombie shooter pits four more or less ordinary people against the popula... |
15 October 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Sony, as the publisher, and Zipper Interactive, as the developer, are announcing that they are expanding the amount of gamers who can get into the beta stage of MAG or Massive Action Game, their multiplayer shooter set to offer complex team-based and objective-oriented battles for up to 256 players.The new stage is s... |
13 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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A new game for Nintendo's Wii has been announced today by interactive entertainment publisher Mastiff. To add to their popular series of outdoor action games the studio is currently working on the Remington Great American Bird Hunt, which will be an arcade shooter that will allow players to hunt down and shoot p... |
13 October 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 was originally criticized for the fact that it would be a sequel designed by Valve so that it could extract more money from fans while offering no real new content.Of course, since the videogame was first announced, Valve has talked to the player community for the first Left 4 Dead and explained what it... |
9 October 2009
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Sin & Punishment did pretty well when it was launched on the Nintendo 64 and even if it let enough loose ends, it wasn't followed by the sequel everyone expected. The game had to wait nine years before it could spawn an offspring. Sin & Punishment 2 was first announced by Nintendo at a press conference last year... |
7 October 2009
03:20 GMT |
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id Software is one of the most respected video game developers out there, specializing in high-end shooters like Wolfenstein and Quake or Doom, all of which were characterized by hardcore gaming mechanics and various other tricks of that genre. One infamous trick in the design of many titles from id Software were th... |
21 August 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest publishers in the gaming industry and has made a name for itself by shamelessly releasing yearly iterations of its core franchises like Need For Speed, FIFA or Madden NFL and charging gamers full price even though the titles didn't bring any new and important things. But in... |
18 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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There are a lot of first person shooter franchises out there, as it is a very popular genre and many people want to experience just what it is like to enter a battlefield and try to turn the tide in your favor and eventually win the battle. One of the most proficient franchises in the genre is Electronic Arts' ... |
17 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Back in 2007, id Software came up with the idea of Quake Live, a browser-based first-person shooter that preserved the spirit of the popular Quake III Arena video game. In 2008 the project entered an invitation-based closed beta stage, and an open beta was available starting with February 2009. The only problem was t... |
14 August 2009
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Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online shooters out there, owning much of its established fan base to the fact that new content is being released periodically, managing to keep the experience fresh and exciting for players. But while all of the other updates released so far were centered on one or more classes... |
13 August 2009
03:10 GMT |
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There are certainly a lot of very creative development studios in the gaming industry today. But only a few of them have truly proven that time and time again by releasing new and interesting properties or franchises. One such studio is 2K Boston, formerly known as Irrational Games, which is responsible for properti... |
11 August 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies out there, owning a lot of high-quality and extremely popular franchises. Most of them were made to compete with the ones from Activision, and, for some time, have really gone against the ones from the large corporation. Such is the case with EA's Medal of Honor s... |
10 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Activision announced very good financial results yesterday, getting more than 1 billion dollars in revenue and almost 200 million in new profit during the last quarter. And buried pretty deep in the financial data released are signs that James Bond, Spider Man and Tony Hawk are getting new iterations in the coming ye... |
7 August 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Fans of the Resident Evil series and owners of an Apple iPhone, rejoice! Capcom has just released Resident Evil 4 for iPhone, a faithful port of the original console game. iTunes imagery shows that the game has good graphics, and typical shooter controls (for Apple handsets). Capcom touts the $7.99 title as “th... |
4 August 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest multiplayer-only video games, as the team from Valve spent quite some time balancing it out and delivering a great and varied first person shooter experience to players all around the world. The support from the team was even more evident when they announced various content upda... |
29 July 2009
03:17 GMT |
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Video games can be split into many genres, each catering to a distinct niche of gamers all around the world. For quite some time, one of the most popular ones were shooters and role playing games, each differentiating itself through specific elements. But, as we heard last week from famous shooter designer Cliff Ble... |
13 July 2009
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Post apocalyptic games are seemingly all the rage these days, as a lot of development studios have taken the world and threw a devastating disaster in it, and thus created the world in which their future games were based. While this scenario isn't as saturated as the World War II one, there are companies ... |
13 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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There are certainly a lot of video game genres out there, ranging from strategy-oriented to hardcore ones, like sports. But one of the most popular is the shooter genre, as it gives players the opportunity to play as some unforgettable characters that let their guns do the talking for them. But as time will pass, sh... |
8 July 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Big Head Games and Dark Horse Comics have formally announced the release of The Terminator for iPhone and iPod touch. Immediately available for download via the iTunes App Store, The Terminator is an officially licensed, all-action, two-part shooter, based on the original movie now celebrating its 25th anniversary. ... |
25 May 2009
08:52 GMT |
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First-person shooters have become, in recent years, quite bland and boring in terms of new ideas. You're either the gruff space marine in a mission to save his home world, the everyday man turned hero or soldier found in the front lines of a cold and cruel war. That's why when Call of Juarez appeared it wa... |
23 May 2009
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SEGA has announced that it plans to release a new game, named Aliens vs. Predator, the first in an upcoming series of Aliens titles that have been licensed by Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising. The game is set to be developed by Rebellion, which has also created the first title in the series, and should... |
22 May 2009
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Splash Damage, which entered into a partnership with Bethesda in May, is hard at work on a new project. The game is apparently a first person shooter and it's set to become “a real killer app.” The name is being withheld at the moment but Bethesda is promising full details to be offered at E3.Sean Br... |
12 May 2009
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The Resident Evil franchise has been one of Capcom's primary projects ever since it was first devised for the original PlayStation console. Since then, the versions that focused on the main story tree have been a benchmark for any action survival shooter with a lot of horror aspects that made fans jump out of th... |
8 May 2009
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Hollywood and the gaming industry have developed a very strong relationship, as more and more movies are getting a video game adaptation and vice versa, hoping to generate further profit for the companies involved.Robots is such a property, which has received a video game treatment in order to coincide with the theat... |
29 April 2009
08:05 GMT |
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First-person shooters are saturating the video game market more and more, and that is why, when a shooter really has itself based on something real, or as close to reality as possible, the companies behind it want to make sure that all of the details about it are known. Such is the case with the upcoming title Rogue... |
28 April 2009
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Rebellion has unveiled quite a few details regarding the new Aliens vs. Predator videogames, which is set to be released for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC.It seems that the developers want to bring back the successful elements of the 1999 original, while offering upgraded graphical quality and better gam... |
24 April 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Konami's mobile division has released its arcade hit title, Silent Scope, for iPhone and iPod touch. It is based on the popular arcade game originally released in 1999, and is now available in the iTunes App Store for $5.99. According to Konami, the iPhone / iPod touch version of Silent Scope has players testing... |
24 April 2009
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Dead Rising was one of biggest titles to appear in 2006 for the Xbox 360, largely due to the fact that it provided players with some very creative ways to get rid of zombies in an infested mall. A big twist in the gameplay was that it had a time limit, of three game days, or 6 hours of normal gameplay, when the prota... |
22 April 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Sony has announced that development is advanced on SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 3, a military-themed videogame that is set to arrive on the PlayStation Portable sometime during the winter of 2009. The game should offer both a single player campaign and a lot of multiplayer action via the Wi-Fi connection.Son... |
21 April 2009
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Destructible environments. Almost every new game boasts this attribute in order to attract more people to buy it. Most of the times though, these environments range from a few doors to boxes or specific walls that allow you to break them with certain weapons or tools. But Volition's Red Faction franchise change... |
19 April 2009
13:31 GMT |
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First Person Shooters have been around for quite some time, gaining a wide amount of popularity thanks to their great stories, good gameplay mechanics and the fact that they provide one of the most immersive experiences for the everyday gamer, who sees the world through the eyes of his character. Painkiller was one ... |
15 April 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Damnation is shaping up to be a pretty interesting title, promising players the ability to climb buildings and jump off ledges, while evading enemy fire in an alternate reality of the early 20th century United States. The game also promises to give players the ability to drive certain vehicles throughout these battle... |
15 April 2009
11:21 GMT |
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When Dead Space was initially released last fall, it was not exactly what publisher Electronic Arts had wanted it to be. The combination of shooter action and horror flick felt stitched together at times, but the combat was solid, the scares interesting in the first few hours and the zero gravity sections were a... |
14 April 2009
14:21 GMT |
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We've recently heard from Gearbox that Borderlands, the bleak-looking shooter that had entered “stealth mode” a few months back, was indeed still set to arrive in 2009, with more details related to gameplay being unveiled at this year's E3 trade show.Now, a preview seen in the PC Gamer magazine ... |
10 April 2009
05:02 GMT |
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There are some games that garner at lot of publicity at some point and then slip into stealth mode, only to emerge just before the publisher announces the release date. Borderlands seems to be such a game, with little being said by 2K since a pretty impressive video was show at the Leipzig Games Convention last year.... |
8 April 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Atomic Games, as the developer, and Konami, as the publisher, are saying that they are planning to create and release Six Days in Fallujah, a videogame that will tackle one of the most known episodes of the current war in Iraq. The title is set to arrive on the PC, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 consoles.The game... |
8 April 2009
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Sony caused quite a lot of hype when it announced one of its biggest titles prepared for the end of 2009, MAG: Massive Action Game. The title, which promises to deliver a Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter experience, will feature support for online battles consisting of up to 256 players due to a uniq... |
6 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Sony's latest entries in the PlayStation family of consoles, the PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation 3, haven't had the best of luck when it comes to games released for them. But as Insomniac developed the Resistance series for the PS3, which enjoyed a fair share of success, Sony saw fit to introduce i... |
3 April 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Mass Effect 2 has recently been revealed as being in development, with BioWare eager to create a game that would be even more popular than the original of the series, which proved to be a big success on both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PC. It's still early in the creation cycle but at the Game Develop... |
30 March 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Killzone 2 was probably one of the most highly-anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive titles that appeared at the beginning of this year. Fans have been eagerly waiting for the return of this very popular franchise with its adrenaline-filled fire fights and stunning environments and levels. Although it hasn't real... |
10 March 2009
14:11 GMT |
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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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Online games are becoming more and more attractive for a lot of gamers because they not only offer a great dose of entertainment, but also provide a backdrop for social interaction with people who share the same hobbies, and who are also inclined to proclaim their uniqueness. That is why Team Fortress 2 has become v... |
6 March 2009
03:12 GMT |
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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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Team Fortress 2 is currently one of the most popular online first-person shooters out there, largely due to the fact that it has a big user community, a variety of classes from which to choose and, most importantly, enjoys the full support of the Valve team in terms of patches, updates and new content. Part of this ... |
25 February 2009
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Games can be quite difficult sometimes, as a lot of developers believe that their target audience is already one filled with experienced players that already have reflexes and know how to get past certain obstacles. But because some gamers lack the necessary skill or, far worse, don't want to actually live the t... |
23 February 2009
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Gears of War is one of the most popular franchises from the new surge of high-quality titles. While the first one really got people into the Xbox 360, the sequel, which was launched before last year's holiday season, managed to sell a whopping amount of over 4 million units. With such a great franchise under its... |
13 February 2009
15:21 GMT |
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3D Realms have confirmed what some dare not even dream of: Prey is being ported to the iPhone. The accelerometer-focused port is being developed by MachineWorks Northwest and is slated for a very soon release, according to the makers of Duke Nukem 3D and the Doom series.“If you're an iPhone user, there... |
12 February 2009
09:15 GMT |
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