Category Archives: Shooter

Sanctum 2 indie developer Coffee Stain Studios has released a launch trailer for its tower defence FPS hybrid.

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Fancy yourself pretty good at shooters, do you? Prepare to be schooled: Fuse is a game that rewards thinking as much as twitch reflexes; demands communication; and punishes those foolish enough to venture in unprepared.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 map Nuketown 2025 has been re-created in its entirety at the Paintball Explosion park in Illinois. The company has posted video footage of players running around the map and splattering each other silly.

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Horn and The Dark Meadow developer Phosphor Games will bring its impressive mobile experience to bear on an adaptation of World War Z.

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According to IGN, there was a rumour going around that shared-worlds shooter Destiny was coming to Vita. Answering desperately curious queries, Bungie pointed out calmly that the only proof of the matter – a supposedly leaked bit of promo art – uses an outdated version of the developer’s logo, fairly conclusively marking it as a fake. Destiny has been confirmed for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360, and other “next-gen platforms” presumably including what we’re now calling Xbox Infinity. The trademark which sparked the fake, Destiny of Spirits, remains unexplained.

Ukrainian developer 4A Games made Metro Last Light with a fraction of the budget of competing titles, working under conditions which would be cause for a lawsuit in the west.

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4A Games has stated on the Steam forums that a HUD update for Metro: Last Light will be released “in the next few days”.

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Call of Juarez: Gunslinger has been targeted by rapper Dan Bull, who has penned a rather hilarious rap to go along with the game. You may remember him as the chap who released this Skyrim rap.

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Metro: Last Light has received its launch trailer courtesy of 4A Games and Deep Silver, and it has that horn sound you hear in most game trailers since Inception hit cinemas years ago. You’ll know once you hear it.

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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified developer 2K Marin has released another new trailer for its strategic shooter, this time showing off plenty of redacted words and a glimpse of combat.

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Call of Duty: Elite members have been invited to register their application to become part of a focus group that will, “help improve and shape the future of Call of Duty.”

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Killzone: Shadow Fall was unveiled at Sony’s PS4 reveal event earlier this year, and it looked quite tasty from a tech perspective. But what you didn’t see were the slides that went along with the game’s presentation. The documents have emerged online and are full of technical data on the game, and make mention of another IP in the works at Guerrilla Games.

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Lost Planet 3 isn’t the hum-drum shoot-a-thon you’re probably expecting, but one of the most character-filled sci fi stories the industry has produced in years.

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4A Games is pretty sure messing with the field of view in Metro: Last Light is going to ruin everything, but since you really want to, it’s going to make that possible.

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Resident Evil: Revelations will come with some interesting, unlockable costumes when it is released next week. You can get a look at the nifty duds below. A demo for the title released on Steam, PSN, XBLA, and eShop, today. The game releases on PC, PS3, Wii U and Xbox 360 in North America on May 21 and across Europe on May 24.

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CCP Games has announced the launch of DUST 514, the free-to-play, multiplayer first-person shooter on PS3.

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Consider this a friendly reminder that all Battlefield 3 DLC is 50% off from today through May 20 on Xbox Live. The sale was announced last week as part of Microsoft’s “coming soon” update. Battlefield 3: Premium is also on sale for 30% off.

505 Games and Overkill Software, a Starbreeze Studio, have announced Payday 2 will no longer be limited to digital download. The game will also be released globally at retail PS3 and Xbox 360. Payday 2 will release for consoles and PC, via Steam, in August 2013. Box art is below.

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Wolfenstein: The New Order assets featuring concept art, screenshots, and temporary box art have been released by Bethesda.

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Metro Last Light is out now in the US, and has already picked up a handful of strong-to-mixed review scores. VG247′s Sam Clay takes a look at the opening 15 minutes of the PC version, with all of the max-spec bells and whistles attached.
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