In December, former Battlefield developer Ben Cousins revealed The Drowning, an ambitious first-person shooter aimed at both hardcore shooter fans and casual players alike. The game's simple two button control scheme is key to bridging the audience gap, and now we get to see how it works. » 2/14/13 12:05pm 2/14/13 12:05pm

Do you miss the early days of first-person shooters, when everyone was pretty much equal and the little guy had a chance of coming out on top? I just played a Free for All match of Offensive Combat, dropped in after the round had already started and still managed to win by one kill—and I suck. » 1/04/13 4:55pm 1/04/13 4:55pm

As the former creative director of DICE Sweden, Ben Cousins knows console shooters. His team at Scattered (formerly Ngmoco Sweden) has collectively worked on five Battlefield games, the first three Halo titles, two Far Cry and Crysis games and the upcoming Tom Cruise film All You Need is Kill. If any development team… » 12/06/12 6:55pm 12/06/12 6:55pm

Level designer and writer Robert Yang has written up a fascinating "People's History of the FPS" as a three part series at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. In it, Yang posits that first-person gaming and first-person-shooters are not, as we tend to think of them, just an industry-dominated gorefest with a linear evolution, but… » 9/21/12 1:00pm 9/21/12 1:00pm

It's good timing for everyone to be excited about Call of Duty: Black Ops II, it seems. New research finds that playing the game, and others like it, can actively change your brain for the better. » 5/03/12 11:30am 5/03/12 11:30am

Code Hero isn't your basic first-person shooter. You'll have enemies, and you'll be "shooting" them, but it won't be with assault rifles and pistols. Instead, you shoot lines of Javascript to command the environment around you. Need a platform moved over? A certain kind of enemy eliminated in one fell swoop? There's… » 2/23/12 9:00am 2/23/12 9:00am

In today's rapidly aging edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, old man commenter AcornPop hangs up his first-person shooter guns, unless a loose cannon of a young partner can drag him back in. » 9/29/11 11:20am 9/29/11 11:20am

The war between the United States and Russia escalates today as EA's browser-based shooter Battlefield Play4Free enters open beta, allowing gamers everywhere to enter the fray with the default equipment or pay to play the tricked-out way. » 4/04/11 11:40am 4/04/11 11:40am

This is what passes for well-protected in SG Interactive's newly-launched free-to-play online first-person PC shooter Project Blackout. Nothing says "I'm combat ready!" like a camouflage crop jacket, Daisy Dukes with fishnet stockings, and a padded orange thermal bikini top. » 1/12/11 12:10pm 1/12/11 12:10pm

Speaking of first-person shooters, Villain has just released Archetype for the iPhone, a quick-and-dirty online FPS that crams all the features you'd expect in a PC game into a tiny little package. » 7/06/10 2:20pm 7/06/10 2:20pm

This batch of new screens shows off SouthPeak and Evolved's upcoming tactical action game, Raven Squad. » 5/19/09 3:00pm 5/19/09 3:00pm

Last month when I sat down with High Voltage to talk to them about their upcoming Wii shooter, The Conduit. I also managed to finagle some time playing the game. » 4/20/09 11:00am 4/20/09 11:00am

This new trailer for High Voltage Software's The Conduit makes it easy to believe that the game can live up to the title of "The definitive Wii first-person shooter." » 3/11/09 2:00pm 3/11/09 2:00pm