Category Archives: Shooter

Wed, May 22, 2013 | 23:01 BST

Scourge: Outbreak releasing on Xbox Live in July

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

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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 21:23 BST

Call of Duty: Ghosts next-gen engine shown in side by side comparison video

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 14:57 BST

Battlefield 4 single-player campaign detailed a bit more by executive producer

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 14:29 BST

Metro: Last Light Season Pass now available, upcoming DLC detailed

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 13:08 BST

Battlefield 4: is this the Xbox One & PS4 pack art?

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 12:59 BST

Call of Duty Ghosts: Hirshberg talks dynamic MP maps, plot & cross-gen development

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 12:22 BST

Battlefield 4 gets 3 new screens: explosions, forests & soldiers

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 11:31 BST

Call of Duty: Ghosts developed by Infinity Ward, Raven & Neversoft

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 10:10 BST

Heavy Gear Assault: Unreal Engine 4 mech shooter now funding Kickstarter

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 10:01 BST

Battlefield 3: double XP event this weekend, details inside

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

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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 04:27 BST

Ghost in the machine! Features of CoD:Ghosts

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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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Wed, May 22, 2013 | 11:14 BST

Battlefield 4 hits current-gen Oct 29, Xbox One & PS4 date pending

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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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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 21:13 BST

Xbox One: Destiny release confirmed by Bungie

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

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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 22:45 BST

Call of Duty: Ghosts Xbox One gameplay shown, all DLC is timed exclusive

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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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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 23:08 BST

Xbox One: Quantum Break revealed by Remedy as a TV series and game

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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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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 17:21 BST

Metro: Last Light Season Pass and single-player DLC details coming tomorrow

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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.

Tue, May 21, 2013 | 12:31 BST

Medal of Honor: PS Vita game outed by concept art

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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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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 11:07 BST

BioShock: Infinite re-imagined as a reality show – spoilers inside

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BioShock: Infinite does have all the ingredients of a popular daytime reality show, what with all the twists, turns, and flying mechanical birds. Wait, what? Say hello to ‘Keeping up with the Comstocks’, a new live-action parody from YouTuber timtimfed.

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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 10:43 BST

PlanetSide: original game going free-to-play, SOE confirms

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PlanetSide, the 2003 MMO shooter from Sony Online Entertainment will go free-to-play at some point in the future, according to the company’s president John Smedley.

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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 08:51 BST

Call of Duty Ghosts: fans react to early Xbox 720 trailer viewing

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Call of Duty: Ghosts gameplay will be shown at tonight’s Xbox 720 reveal, and Xbox Australia showed the clip to fans early, and recorded their reactions.

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