Tag Archives: Shooter

Waiting to be reborn Updated with the Community Choice entry! If you had told us five years ago that we would love an XCOM game, we wouldve called you crazy. The original X-COM: UFO Defense was no doubt a great game, with a grip of devoted fans that still play …

Sony’s July buy-out of cloud gaming company Gaikai could be ready to bear fruit some time soon, if today’s relaunch of the Gaikai website is anything to go by. The redesigned website couldn’t be any more PlayStation-friendly if Kaz Hirai’s smiling face popped out of it upon loading. In 3D. …

Halo 4 may seem like a swan song for the Xbox 360, but Frank O’Connor believes the console and the rest of its generation still has a lot of life and power left to tap into. GamesIndustry International spoke with O’Connor, Halo franchise development director at developer 343 Industries. “I …

According to system specifications that werereleased (opens in new tab)earlier today for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the upcoming shooter will not be supporting Windows XP. It’s one of the first major titles released that will not support the operating system. So if you’re one of those 13% of …

“It’s a big investment for us this year,” he said. “What you first have to do is start with the technology, the hardware, what’s coming out, and what it does really, really well, and understand what’s going to drive innovation there.” Addressing EA’s weak start on the Xbox 360 and …

The core elements of the Counter-Strike series haven’t changed much since the original Half-Life mod emerged in 1999. That trend continues with the newest update, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for better and worse. Though the $15 downloadable title keeps the core of the series’ gameplay alive, preserving the traditional maps, gun …

The multiplayer reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 introduces a ton of new gadgets and toys to play with during the endless hours of deathmatch. Practically every moment of this trailer is packed with awesome footage of stuff we desperately want to get our hands on. The …

Left 4 Dead 2 on PC is open to fan modification. Indeed, it’s encouraged by Valve, who not only released the tools to enable gamers to do so, but even pledged to promote one user-created map each week for the foreseeable future. One such mod is ‘Cold Stream’ – a …

The NPD Group (opens in new tab), as reported by MCV Pacific (opens in new tab), has unveiled the ten best selling games of 2012, where only three of which were actually released in that year. The remaining seven were all games of 2011, leaving only Max Payne 3, Mass …

Real horror in video games has been incredibly hard to come by in the last decade or so. The Silent Hill 2’s of the world have been replaced by games like Dead Space and Left 4 Dead which emphasize action over scares. This new trailer for ZombiU gives us hope …