If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Codemasters has announced that Bodycount, which it calls an “intense arcade shooter” (action shooter, even) is now out in the US, and will be on sale in the UK on Friday. Coming alongside the launch is the launch trailer, [...]
Firefall is a free-to-play team-based action shooter with a persistent online world that’s currently in beta testing. For those keen to get a closer look, however, developer Red 5 Studios has announced that it will be showing off the game live at Gamescom next week (over in Germany), and then at PAX Prime in Seattle. [...]
Activision has announced its next zombie-themed content pack for the massive selling shooter Black Ops. Rezurrection will launch exclusively on Xbox Live come August 23rd, taking players to the moon for their fix of zombie splattering action. Expect low-gravity shenanigans aplenty, and bloodthirsty undead astronauts who need to be taken down with a range of [...]
Borderlands fans, take note – a sequel to the game is already underway at Gearbox, and is expected to emerge next year. That’s the word from Eurogamer, who spoke to a source “close to the game”, although publisher 2K Games hasn’t said anything to confirm this after EG contacted the company. Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford [...]
There are some (hopefully) fantastic games coming out this autumn, such as Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3… and let’s not forget sneaking in before these in October, a little offering called Rage. Rage is the latest shooter to be crafted by the genius outfit who first truly popularised the deathmatch with Doom and [...]
The upcoming shooter from Codemasters, Bodycount, has had its release date confirmed, as well as an E3 trailer featuring in-game footage posted. The date to mark in your diaries, and to schedule a delivery of body-bags for, is September 2nd (with the game coming out slightly earlier on August 30th in the States). Big machineguns, [...]
Veteran multiplayer gamers will probably remember Tribes from an age past. It was out in the late nineties when Quake still ruled the online deathmatching roost, although Tribes offered a very different experience to straight up deathmatch. Tribes was all about team-based objective play in a sci-fi setting which introduced flying vehicles, and players with [...]
InterWave has just released a new fact sheet detailing more on its upcoming first-person shooter and real-time strategy hybrid, Nuclear Dawn. As the name suggests, it’s a post-apocalyptic scenario where two armies duke it out using weapons which don’t rely purely on twitch skills and reflexes, but skill and tactics. You can play as a [...]
2K Games has been showing off its new XCOM game at E3. If you’re familiar with the XCOM franchise, which first emerged way back in 1994 courtesy of Microprose, the games involves an earth defence force fighting invading aliens in a large-scale tactical global conflict. This XCOM reboot plans to go back in time to [...]
If you’ve not been following the E3 games show, then you might have missed the unveiling of the sequel to the Wii. Nintendo’s Wii U, as it’s called, features a 6 inch touchscreen tablet hybrid controller, HD graphics, and a line-up of more core games to attract not just casual gamers this time around. And [...]
The E3 games show is in full swing over in Los Angeles and Halo 4 is one of the big announcements flying around. In fact, there’s an E3 trailer which you can watch in all its spaceship-exploding-glory here. The trailer is called Awakening, and shows a ship which is in the process of disintegrating while [...]
The sequel to the highly atmospheric and acclaimed Metro 2033 has been announced by THQ. Danny Bilson, EVP of Core Games at THQ, called the original a “flawed masterpiece” – flawed in that it didn’t get the marketing support it needed. “We won’t make that mistake with Metro: Last Light”, he insisted. Once again the [...]
The latest trailer for Gears of War 3 has hatched out, and you can see it at the official site here (or on YouTube if you prefer). Microsoft boasts that it offers a peek at the “epic-scale” campaign in which Marcus Fenix and his brothers-in-arms attempt to save humanity from the Locust and Lambent menace. [...]
It’s finally happened. Against all odds, 2K Games has announced that Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold and despite what all the nay-sayers reckoned, the shooter will be on sale before the next appearance of Halley’s comet. Duke Nukem Forever – aptly named given that it took forever to make, a decade and a half [...]
Child of Eden is a “multi-sensory shooter” and spiritual successor to Rez, which is coming to the Xbox in a Kinect-powered version (although it can also be played with normal controllers, and is set for the PS3, too). It was thought the game might be released next month, at the close of the first quarter, [...]
Bulletstorm is the new shooter from Epic Games, the architects of Gears of War and Unreal, and if you’ve been waiting to try it, the demo is out now on Xbox Live (and PSN tomorrow). Bulletstorm is designed as an intense and over-the-top shooter, with huge guns, lead spraying everywhere, and doubtless body parts too. [...]
A pair of trailers have been posted up on YouTube, showing off the upcoming apocalyptic arcade shooter sequel, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. One trailer shows off ground combat, and the other air combat, with the game guaranteeing some fast paced blasting action as you come under siege from legions of giant ants, wasps, spiders [...]
Team 17 has unleashed the latest in its series of Alien Breed shooters on Xbox Live Arcade and the PC (via Steam). Alien Breed is a top down blaster which was a hit back in the nineties, and this polished modern reprise (powered by the Unreal 3 engine) has already witnessed two outings, Alien Breed: [...]
Duke Nukem Forever has to be one of the most accurately titled games ever christened, given that we have literally waited forever for it to appear. The game has been in development for some thirteen years now, and we still fondly remember playing the original Duke on LAN when it was out in 1996 (falling [...]
THQ has announced that its upcoming third-person shooter Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is set to be arriving on the PC format as well as consoles. Jonathan Dowdeswell, General Manager of Relic Entertainment commented: “The loyal PC audience is incredibly important to us here at Relic so we are delighted to be able to announce the [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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