Category Archives: Shooter

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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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 08:41 BST

Black Ops 2: Revolution DLC is free this free-to-play this weekend, new micro-DLC incoming

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 developer Treyarch is lifting the paywall off its Revolution DLC pack this weekend, letting everyone play it for free for a few days. The game is also getting some more micro-DLC skins that will be chosen by fan vote.

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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 11:13 BST

Resident Evil: Revelations launch trailer shows flashes of gameplay

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Resident Evil: Revelations developer Capcom has released a launch trailer for its HD re-release, full of static and quick shots of beasties. The games out on PS3, Wii U and Xbox 360 today in the States, and on Friday across Europe.

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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 08:19 BST

Battlefield 4: “Big announcements are coming soon”

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We know that the next-gen Xbox reveal taking place tonight will show off next-gen FIFA and next-gen Call of Duty, but we expect that many of the big game announcements will be left for Microsoft’s E3 press conference. But it could be that we’ll find out something about Battlefield 4 at the imminent event.

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Tue, May 21, 2013 | 04:08 BST

Visceral working in unnamed next-gen shooter — rumor

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The personal website of a game developer named Jehan Choo who once contracted with Visceral Games contained until a few hours ago a reference to work done on “pre-vis environments, mood pieces, and texture work for a PS4/Xbox 720 title” at Visceral, which is best known lately for the producing the Dead Space games.

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Mon, May 20, 2013 | 22:02 BST

New Killzone: Mercenary screens break cover

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Guerilla Games has released a new bunch of Killzone: Mercenary screenshots and they look really beautiful. The new screens seem to be direct-captures and show off the game’s majestic world as well as featuring various characters, environments and textures. Killzone Mercenary releases in the US on September 10, in Europe on September 4 and in the UK on September 6. You can watch the screens after the break. Thanks, AGB.

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Mon, May 20, 2013 | 21:04 BST

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger gets action-packed launch trailer

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Ubisoft’s released the launch trailer for Techland’s upcoming FPS Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and it focuses on the game’s main lead Silas Greaves and his journey in the game.

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Mon, May 20, 2013 | 16:41 BST

Hawken dev diary shows off ‘Front Line’ map

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Hawken developer Adhesive Games has published a new dev diary clip, this time showing off a map called Front Line, and discussing how the locale plays out during matches.

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