What you need to know PlaySide Studios has revealed a new top-down action shooter called Kill Knight during the Triple-I Initiative event on April 10, 2024. Kill Knight has the player assume the role of an undead knight fighting their way through an army of demons of the Abyss to kill The Last Angel. This […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Marvel Rivals is a newly-revealed free-to-play 6-versus-6 team shooter being developed by NetEase Games. Players assume the roles of heroes and villains from across different timelines of the Marvel universe, including Black Panther, Iron Man, Loki, Magneto, Peni Parker, and more. Marvel Rivals is currently in development for Windows PC, […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know STALKER is an non-linear first-person shooter franchise made by GSC Game World for PC in the late 2000s. It’s one of the largest ever cult classic game series, with its fans in love with its atmosphere and advanced open world AI simulations. During Microsoft’s Xbox Partner Preview event, the original […]
Read MoreIf you haven’t played Deathloop yet, now is possibly the best chance to get it at the best price I’ve seen for PC and Steam Deck. Deathloop launched is a critically acclaimed shooter with a ridiculously addictive gameplay loop (get it?). You play as an assassin stuck in a time loop, who has to eliminate […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Electronic Arts is laying off 670 workers across different divisions, or around 5% of its current global workforce. The layoffs will see studio Ridgeline Games close, as well as the cancelation of a Star Wars first-person shooter at Respawn Entertainment. The upcoming Iron Man and Black Panther games are still […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Spec Ops: The Line is a legendary third-person shooter originally released in 2012. While the game saw middling success at launch, it has remained relevant thanks to its brutal campaign following the horrors and traumas of war. Thanks to expiring music licenses, however, Spec Ops: The Line is permanently disappearing […]
Read MoreBlack Friday season is one of the best times for gamers to snag some underappreciated gems for significantly discounted prices, and one such game that should be on your radar right now is Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Released early in 2022 while everyone and their mother (and me) was still marveling at Elden Ring, the D&D-themed […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Hyenas was an upcoming PvPvE shooter being developed by Creative Assembly, a team of studios under Sega known for the Total War franchise and Alien: Isolation. As part of a portfolio review, publisher Sega has canceled Hyenas and some other unannounced games under the European side of its game development […]
Read MoreBack in July 2022, I previewed a new IP from Capcom called Exoprimal, an online-only competitive multiplayer game where two teams of players are tasked with exterminating hordes of dinosaurs and each other in a never-ending series of PvPvE matches. I had a good first impression of this idiosyncratic game as it was rich with […]
Read MoreQualcomm just introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and one of the key talking points was the chip’s capabilities for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Today, Oppo gave us an insight into how the feature would look on a smartphone. The company developed a first-person shooter game called “Camp Guard” that demonstrates the ray tracing capabilities on […]
Read MoreQualcomm just introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and one of the key talking points was the chip’s capabilities for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Today, Oppo gave us an insight into how the feature would look on a smartphone. The company developed a first-person shooter game called “Camp Guard” that demonstrates the ray tracing capabilities on […]
Read MoreOn se souvient que l’un des jeux du lancement du premier PlayStation VR était le rail-shooter Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. Le studio Supermassive Games va remettre ça pour le lancement du PlayStation VR 2 le 22 février prochain. Sony et le studio viennent en effet d’annoncer le titre The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR qui […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Atomic Heart is the debut title from ambitious studio Mundfish, published by Focus Entertainment. The upcoming action-RPG shooter combines stunning art design and a terrifying, futuristic dystopia. After months of waiting, Atomic Heart finally has an official release date of Feb. 21, 2023, and is now available to preorder. Atomic […]
Read MoreBlizzard Entertainment’s acclaimed hero shooter, Overwatch, has fallen into an awkward state during its final years. Once successful and widely adored, the direction of its gameplay had shifted with time, as its popularity dwindled among the masses. To this day, Overwatch has struggled to revisit those glory days. Overwatch had become grueling, bland, and slow […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Hyenas is a newly-announced multiplayer shooter from Creative Assembly, with the team having previously worked on Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2. It’s set in a future where billionaires wrecked Earth and colonized Mars. Players are space pirates who steal from said billionaires, hijacking ships and making off with cargo. […]
Read MoreSource: Activision Blizzard When Blizzard’s ambitious 6v6 hero shooter Overwatch released back in 2016, I instantly fell in love. Its stylish visuals and wide variety of unique and charming characters drew me in, and I regularly played the game for two years as Blizzard added maps, game modes, quality-of-life features, and heroes. However, Overwatch’s gameplay […]
Read MoreSource: Deep Silver Over the course of the last decade, my interest in open-world games has dwindled significantly. Many of them have become overly formulaic and stale, often resulting in flat and uninteresting open-world experiences that bury information in a confusing array of menu screens and litter your map with icons that preview the content […]
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