A Psychological Thriller Where You Solve Puzzles With Phone Apps
Get Even is a game that tries to mess with your mind as you shoot up guards and solve puzzles with your phone. As a…
Quake Champion's Beta Is A Bloody Disaster
Quake Champions is an upcoming free to play arena shooter that revives the beloved franchise. It is currently running a…
We Filled Retro Monsters Full Of Lead In Strafe
Strafe is a fond throwback to games like Quake and Doom. Seeking to capture all bloody fun of old school shooters, it…
Let's Dive Into The New Online Shooter Lawbreakers
Cliff Bleszinski and the team at Boss Key Productions are pulling out all the stop for Lawbreakers, a frantic first…
A Fallout 4 Boss That Scared The Crap Out Of Me
Sometimes, Fallout 4 feels less like an RPG than it does a straight-up horror game.
Fallout 4's Power Armor Is Better Than Ever
I remember the first time I saw Power Armor, back in Fallout 2. Frank Horrigan, the game’s villain, mowed down a group…
A Few Quick Tips For Folks Playing The Star Wars Battlefront Beta
Today, the public beta for Star Wars Battlefront starts at 1PM EST for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Many of you will want to…
Counter-Strike Champ Makes Cheating Teammate's Life A Living Hell
Lets say you’re playing a video game and you encounter a teammate who is very obviously cheating—we’re talking,…
Video Games Get Gun Silencers All Wrong
You round a corner. You think you're in the clear but—oh no!—an enemy is standing guard. How will you ever bring him…
Why The Alien Universe Would Actually Make For The Perfect Shooter
Shooters, despite some evidence to the contrary, are actually rare.
Former THQ Pres: Metro Makers The 'Jamaican Bobsledders' Of Developers [UPDATE]
In the Olympics, the Jamaican bobsledding team is famed for beating out countries who had a number of advantages over…
Technically, The Graphics of First-Person Shooters Have Improved A Lot Since 1992
Sit back and watch two decades of video game graphics flash before your eyes. YouTube user drloser333 has uploaded a…
Why We Like To Shoot
A few days after the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the first-person shooter game's publisher, Activision,…
Do Modern Shooters Take Themselves Too Seriously?
Despite my aversion to shooters—god, there's too many of them—Overstrike, with its playful, comical tone and its…
China Is Both Too Scary and Not Scary Enough To Be Video Game Villains
The North Korean bad guys in the upcoming video game Homefront were originally going to be Chinese, but the people…
The Evolution Of The First-Person Shooter, In One Shot
My, how first person shooters have changed! (As seen on Reddit.)
Kinect Creator: Hardly Anyone Plays First-Person Shooters On PC Anymore
Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda, talking to Game Informer about the future of Kinect, had this to say about the current state…
Out Of Ammo: Our Favorite Shooter Melee Weapons
Whether you're seriously low on ammo or just want to make someone's life completely miserable, there's nothing quite…
You Play Video Games Like A Cyclops
You might have a pair of eyes, but when you're playing first-person video games, you're no better than a cyclops.…
Seeking A Game That Can Trick Me
This is the third in a series of posts labeled "Hindsight" that discuss games you may have thought we were done writing…