Category Archives: Shooter

Destiny will receive a new CG trailer today, ahead of its June 10 showing at E3. The confirmation was included in a Rudyard Kipling book sent to VG247 this morning. We’ve got photos inside.

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With the recent success of Ubisoft’s throwback to the 80′s with the Far Cry 3 DLC Blood Dragon, it looks like they may have decided to do another throwback, this time to the original Far Cry.

A Far Cry HD listing for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 has surfaced on the Brazil’s rating board site. No announcement had been made by Ubisoft, but with the success the franchise is having, it could be on the cards.

While DUST 514, the console based MMO/FPS set in the Eve Online universe, is continuing to receive changes from CCP to its skill system based on feedback from players, some players are not happy with the effects the changes are having on their chosen skills. To help things run more smoothly CCP is offering players a chance to request one free respec.

Players are able to request a respec by emailing the CCP support teamwith any key information. This option is available from now through to May 31st, thanks to Ten Ton Hammer.

UFO Interactive Games in partnership with Tragnarion Studios has announced a July release for Scourge: Outbreak on Xbox Live.

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Infinity Ward has released a video showing the tech differences between Call of Duty: Ghosts and Modern Warfare 3.

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DICE executive producer Patrick Bach is featured in the Battlefield 4 dev chat below, and in it he discusses the shooter’s single player campaign.

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Information on Metro: Last Light’s Season Pass and upcoming DLC has been announced by Deep Silver.

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Battlefield 4 developer DICE has opened Xbox One and PS4 pre-orders for its shooter, and may have given us our first look at what game boxes for both formats might look like.

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Call of Duty: Ghosts was revealed last night at Microsoft’s Xbox One event, and since then Activision’s Eric Hirshberg has spilled many beans about what to expect from Infinity Ward’s cross-gen shooter. He also confirmed the game would release within the Xbox One’s launch window.

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Battlefield 4 has received a trio of new screens, care of developer DICE. They show a big explosive fireball, two soliders talking and a man walking through a detailed forest.

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Call of Duty: Ghosts development was aided along by fellow Activision teams Raven Software and Neversoft, Infinity Ward has confirmed.

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Heavy Gear Assault developer Stompy Bot Productions has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a free and pay-what-you-want take on the series. It’s a chunky shooter, and it’s riddled with dynamic destruction.

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Battlefield 3 developer DICE has announced another double XP weekend event, kicking off tomorrow.

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Adding to the big announcements, information for Call of Duty’s next-gen installment in the franchise has started to emerge today. Following leaks of the name and a teaser trailer in the past weeks, Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Ghosts is developed on a new engine which will add features such as exponential polygons and mocapped dogs.
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Battlefield 4 was announced for an October 29 release date last night for all formats, but EA has since clarified that the shooter will only hit current-gen formats from this date, and will hit PS4 and Xbox One at a later date.

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Xbox One will get its own version of Destiny, developer Bungie has confirmed.

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Call of Duty: Ghosts has been shown for Xbox One at Microsoft’s reveal event. See both the official behind-the-scenes trailer, and the new reveal trailer here.

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Quantum Break is the debut Xbox One game from Alan Wake studio Remedy and its a TV show tie-in similar to Defiance.

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The official Twitter account for Metro: Last Light has revealed that information on the Season Pass and future DLC will hit tomorrow. The DLC is single-player content expanding the world of in the game, and the Season Pass will contain all the content being created since Last Light’s completion. It will also be offered at a discount for those who want to grab it. So, in other words, look out for more information tomorrow.

Medal of Honor was getting the PS Vita treatment over at Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City studio Slant Six, according to concept art listed by a former employee.

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