Tag Archives: Shooter

Wonder why the trailer for Splatoon 2 (opens in new tab) shows a morose-looking Marie with Callie nowhere to be found? The Squid Sisters were inseparable in the first game, despite throwing occassional disses at each other when things got heated in their TV host segments. The explanation, it turns …

Prepare the ban hammer. If you’ve been playing video games for more than five minutes, you know they have a tendency to be moral outrage magnets. If you can name it, games have been blamed for it, so it’s not too shocking that game bans have followed in force. For …

Nothing breaks up the intensity of an edge-of-your-seat action shooter like trying to pick off quick-moving fireflies with a fully automatic machine gun. Fortunately, your patience is rewarded with skill points, and if you can exterminate all 21 Electrofly swarms throughout Bulletstorm’s campaign, you’ll earn the Pest Control trophy or …

Rumours, and a few teasing clues, are pointing to a new WWII Call of Duty (opens in new tab). Having just finished Call of Duty 2 (opens in new tab), arguably the best World War 2 shooter of all, I can’t help but feel it’s about time. In fact, I’ll …

New Destiny (opens in new tab) expansions and live events have rolled in like the tide over the last few years: with soothing regularity and occasionally full of shiny surprises. That will finally come to an end with the arrival of Destiny 2 (opens in new tab), but Bungie has …

Well that was unexpected Sometimes a change of pace is good. We may love a game to pixels and be happy to while away our days in its digital landscape, but once you start hitting 10, 20, 50-hour benchmarks, variety starts to become a necessity. It’s not hard to inject …

You probably already know that Prey (opens in new tab) takes place on a space station overrun by killer shape-shifting aliens. You’ll have that advantage over protagonist Morgan Yu, who starts the game believing they’re living in a nice apartment overlooking a futuristic city on Earth. Things fall apart within …

If you found yourself thinking “Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab) is great and all, but I wish it had more claustrophobic struggle and death,” the game’s first DLC expansion has your weirdly specific number. Developer DICE shared (opens in new tab) some new concept art and information about “They …

Fallout 4 (opens in new tab) update 1.8 will finally deliver mod support to PS4 players this week, Bethesda announced via Twitter. Mod support arrives months later than initially planned on PS4, and with some limitations imposed by Sony, but it’s still cause for celebration. #Fallout4’s 1.8 arrives on consoles …

Famously, Halo: Combat Evolved – the game that changed the landscape of first-person shooters on console forever – began life neither as a first-person shooter, nor on console. I do not consider this a coincidence. But before we get into that, a brief history lesson. The world’s first glimpse of …