If games like Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Splatoon are any indication, this generation of shooters is going to be a whacky one. Sony just fleshed out its newest entry in this emerging category of insane-looking projectile simulators with a trailer for VizionEck, a monochromatic shooter I do not understand…
"When you're making fun of his suit, you're making fun of his mom." Far Cry 4's Executive Producer Dan Hay gives yet another eccentric tidbit of information about Pagan Min, the game's villain, in an interview Ubisoft just posted.
This is an image from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Something looks a little different than what you'd normally expect to see in the latest installment in Valve's online game about counter-terrorists shooting at counter-terrorists, though. No, I'm not talking about the heads-up display.
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Despite putting the game out in the open way back in 2011, Epic has remained relatively quiet about its cartoonish shooter Fortnite ever since. Now it's finally starting to put the game back in the spotlight by releasing promising footage like this new gameplay trailer.
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Attention Borderlands fans: Gearbox just released 14 more minutes of butt-stomping action from the upcoming "Pre-Sequel," out this October for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Watch the new video above and read our thoughts on a recent preview for the game here.
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We've all had that moment, the one where something in real life looks so deliciously game-like that we just wish we could dive in right there and start playing.
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Battlefield 3 players have been running into some renewed performance issues as of late, ones that are related to the 2011 shooter's third-party anti-cheating software.
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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.
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Are you one of the PC gamers who prefers Origin to Steam?
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Shortly after Ubisoft upset many Assassin's Creed fans by saying that it had abandoned its plan to have female characters in its new game's co-op multiplayer mode, the company returned with another controversial explanation about the absence of women in its games—this one focused on Far Cry 4.
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Lots of Titanfall fans were disappointed this week when a rumored sequel wasn't announced. But if you were one of the people curling up inside your giant killer robot to sulk Monday night after EA's press conference, at least you can console yourself with the knowledge that there'll be two more ways to have …
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EA just dropped a bombshell on Battlefield fans in the middle of its E3 press conference. The game launches on October 21st, but you can sign up for the beta which launches today. Update: EA says that it's no longer accepting new players "for now," but you can still put yourself on the wait list here.
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Ubisoft and Microsoft didn't have much to say about The Division at the latter's E3 press conference this morning, but that didn't stop them from showing off some lush gameplay footage:
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The big Battlefield news this week was about Hardline, but EA doesn't want you think that means it's forgotten about Battlefield 4. Longtime series developer Karl Magnus Troedsson wrote a blog post yesterday assuring fans of the still-struggling online multiplayer shooter that DICE will "continue to improve the BF4…
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I expected to hate the new Wolfenstein. I wanted to, even. The whole idea of rebooting the Nazi-killing epic for the umpteenth time disturbed me.
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Good news, PlayStation loyalists! The excellent Plants Vs. Zombies shooter is coming to Sony's PS3 and PS4 consoles on August 19th, developer PopCap announced today.
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Francis is the closest thing to a hardcore gamer I have in my life. He's the kind of guy that bought a DualShock 4 controller on a lunch break before the PlayStation 4 had come out just so he could hold it. Buying the PS4 over the Xbox One was a calculated decision he can justify many, many times over.
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4A Games' grim post-apocalyptic shooters are finally getting the next-gen treatment they deserve with Metro Redux, series publisher Deep Silver announced today.
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Sony has long had a gaping, Killzone-sized hole in its roster of PlayStation exclusive titles. This has left it shuffling behind arch-rival Microsoft, a company that's always seemed to have a finger of the dudebro's pulse when it comes to figuring out what people want from their shooters: Halo, Gears of War, Titanfall.
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Shooters, despite some evidence to the contrary, are actually rare.
