The new-and-improved current-gen versions of 4A Games' excellent Metro shooters are coming out on August 26th, publisher Deep Silver just announced. See some beautiful images from Metro Redux here.
The Metro Games Are Coming To PS4 And Xbox One
4A Games' grim post-apocalyptic shooters are finally getting the next-gen treatment they deserve with Metro Redux, series publisher Deep Silver announced today.
The Metro: Last Light Developer DLC pack features a fully-stocked shooting range, an AI battle arena, and a museum filled with the game's characters and creatures. There's also a solo mission filled with spiders, so screw that. The pack will release September 17 for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. You can read about…
This Killer Metro: Last Light 'Trailer' Is More Like A Short Film
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Video game trailers can be crass, they can be dumb, and they can be misleading. They can also be pretty damned cool. This trailer for Metro: Last Light is pretty damned cool.
This Week The Internet Went Crazy Over These Glitchy And Artistic GIFs
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The reveal of the Xbox One might have overshadowed content on the Internet this week, but that certainly wasn't the case for the craftiest of internet denizens who convert anything worthy into an animated GIF. Whether it's some sort of a video game glitch, like giant Spock's terrifying stare above, or a nice form of…
Metro: Last Light PC Performance, Benchmarked
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When the Metro 2033 was released in 2010 it contributed to raise the PC graphics bar making good use of the latest DirectX 11 rendering technologies such as depth of field and tessellation along with high resolution textures.
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Steam copies of Metro: Last Light include a nice little surprise: a pdf version of the book the series is based on, Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro 2033.
Former THQ Pres: Metro Makers The 'Jamaican Bobsledders' Of Developers…
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In the Olympics, the Jamaican bobsledding team is famed for beating out countries who had a number of advantages over the Jamaican team—like winter coats and bobsledding tracks for training. Sure, the Jamaican team didn't come in first, but the fact they were competitive in the first place was amazing.
The Storied Italian Composition Buried Within Metro: Last Light
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The surface of the Earth may be a blasted wasteland, its music shops and symphony halls reduced to smoldering ruins. But as long as humans survive, so too will music. It's in that spirit that I enjoy the music of Metro 2033 and its equally post-apocalyptic sequel, Metro: Last Light. The games have a distinct musical…
Six Critics Are Pleasantly Spooked By Metro: Last Light
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Metro: Last Light is a survivor. Not only did it suffer multiple delays, but it also managed to get through its publisher's unfortunate closure unscathed. The result is an excellent, albeit slightly troubled, first-person horror shooter.
The Quiet Moments In Metro: Last Light's Apocalypse
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Mood is such an important thing in a nuclear apocalypse; a detail that is so easy to forget. That’s something that’s painfully palpable in the first hour of Metro: Last Light
Metro: Last Light: The Kotaku Review
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What will the world look like after the bombs fall? Can God exist in a place without hope? When man's desire to survive overrides his morality, is the empire he constructs worth saving?
If "Ranger Mode" is the way Metro: Last Light is "meant to be played," why is it a preorder bonus and not in the main edition? "Offering game content as a pre-order exclusive is a requirement by retail," the game's publisher told PC Gamer. Ranger Mode is $5 to non-preorderers because that's the minimum they can charge.
The Moneysaver: $20 Tomb Raider And Your New HDTV
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Get your games cheaply and watch them cheaply too. Welcome to The Moneysaver.
Metro: Last Light Is At Its Best As A Stealth Game
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I got to play about an hour and a half of Metro: Last Light at PAX East this weekend. What I played felt like two different games.
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The latest trailer for Metro: Last Light is grim, even for a grim video game trailer. It's a grimsplosion.
Metro: Last Light is out on May 14 and May 17 in North America and elsewhere, respectively. Keep your flashlights handy!
"Brutal...Brilliant"... and Coming Out Who-Knows-When
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The moody, gritty PC/PS3/Xbox 360 shooter Metro: Last Light was supposed to come out in early 2013, which is probably why ads for it started showing up atop New York City taxi cabs many weeks ago. Then Metro's publisher, THQ fell apart. Metro will eventually be released by new publisher Deep Silver. For now, it's…
GameStop Pulls Metro: Last Light From Its Downloadable Service, Citing…
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GameStop pulled Metro: Last Light from its Impulse digital download service, telling GameSpot that the uncertain fate of its publisher, THQ, is the reason.
Thirteen Things You Should Know About Metro: Last Light
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The first thing I thought, while checking out Metro: Last Light during a demo presentation in a Manhattan hotel a few weeks ago, was "Another grey shooter? Seriously?"