Semi Essessi, who was unfortunate enough to have worked on Codemasters' abysmal first person shooter Bodycount, says that wasn't the worst part of his job.

Bodycount is a game that celebrates the trigger squeezing, headshot taking, destroy everything sensation of first person shooters. After all, the spiritual successor to Black better have some serious environmental destruction.

Renaissance man and Gears of War fan Ice-T will lend his acting and musical talents to Epic Games' new shooter, Gears of War 3. The rapper, actor and voice of Gears 3's Griffin has gotten the band (Body Count) back together for a special musical tribute, appropriately titled "The Gears of War."

Codemasters has an enthusiastic write up about their upcoming shooter Bodycount over on the official Playstation Blog.

This is Ice-T's Body Count. Performing at a Gears of War 3 party in LA earlier tonight. That's a match made in heaven if ever I've seen one.

Codemasters' Bodycount, the first-person shooter that was at one point headed by Black creator Stuart Black, but no longer, is a curious thing. It's part inspired by Lady Gaga and all about "the bullet and its impact on the world."

If a video game contains guns, does it also contain bullets? Not necessarily. Well, not necessarily — get this — depending on your philosophical take on what it means for a bullet to exist.

Stuart Black was going to make a typically dreary first person shooter. Then he went to see a Lady Gaga concert.

From the co-creator and designer of Black comes Bodycount, Codemasters' newest shot at "genre-defining gun play" for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, a game you might have already heard a few peeps about.