It's the birthday week of one of gaming's most influential first-person shooters: Half-Life. Without Half-Life, we wouldn't be blessed with not just future FPSs featuring gripping and immersive single-player campaigns (or at least attempt to), as well as developers creative enough to make mods out of its engine, lea

The newest entry into the niche but beloved retro-fantasy FPS genre, developed by Emberheart Games and published by Apogee Entertainment, Wizordum, is a glorious throwback to the era of classic first-person shooters. Drawing inspiration from revered titles such as Heretic and Catacomb Abyss, this game proudly stands as

MADFINGER Games, the renowned game studio hailing from the Czech Republic, has just released their very first PC game, Gray Zone Warfare, powered by Unreal Engine 5. Be sure to give the awesome trailer a watch; it offers a sneak peek into the exciting world of Gray Zone Warfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb

Steam Next Fest 2023 returns and offers players a unique opportunity to explore and discover the best games in the industry. Today until 16 October at 10:00 AM PDT (17 October, 1:00 AM MYT), players can try out hundreds of free demos, and some developers have even started posting their demos before the event's official

Following the recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, which should be official by this week, the former has something to say about its games being on Game Pass. Will titles like Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 be on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass? Yes they will, as Activision Blizzard confirmed that it is

Publisher 3D Realms, Interplay, and Slipgate Ironworks have announced the release date of Kingpin: Reloaded, a first-person shooter remake, with a brand-new trailer after three years of silence. Kingpin: Reloaded now supports 4K resolution, ultrawide displays, and improved graphics in Enhanced mode, allowing the

Starbreeze's third game in the Payday series had a rough launch, but the company has allegedly fixed it. As of its 21st September launch, the online-only multiplayer PvE bank-robbing first-person shooter had mostly negative reviews on Steam due to players not being able to connect to the servers. The issue? Starbree

A new age of first-person shooters and esports has dawned upon us: the next Counter-Strike 2 is live. Counter-Strike 2 is live right now and has replaced CS:GO as the de facto multiplayer PvP 5v5 shooter for Valve and Steam platform. Don't feel too bad: CS:GO has been around for 10 years so it's only a matter of tim

Nintendo's Splatoon series is a clever way to make shooters accessible to everyone: instead of relying so much on killshots and frags, why not create a team objective focused on marking the most territory before time runs out? With such an ingenious premise, it's surprising to not see as many clones of the concept o

Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series X | S Genre: Open-world, action sci-fi RPG; as Todd Howard said "Think Skyrim in space" In the boundless realm of gaming, a celestial revelation has dawned – Starfield, the latest brainchild of Bethesda, unfurls as a masterful fusion of RPG excellence drawn from the

Exciting news is on the horizon as Smilegate is preparing to release their highly anticipated virtual reality arcade first-person shooter, CROSSFIRE: Sierra Squad. This thrilling game will be available for both PlayStation VR 2 and PC virtual reality headsets through Steam starting on 29 August, and it's priced at US$2

Bandai Namco has announced that Gundam Evolution will end service on 29 November 2023. Gundam Evolution was originally launched for PC via Steam on 21 September 2022, followed by PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, and Xbox One on 30 November 2022. Executive producer Kazuya Maruyama said: “It is with great sadness that

With Season 5: New Dawn well underway, EA and DICE have revealed the newest in-game Seasonal Event for Battlefield 2042, the Arkangel Directive. The event will run for two weeks, starting on Tuesday, 11 July 2023 at 5 am PT through Tuesday, 25 July 2023 at 5 am PT. A combined arms battle never seen before, The Arkan

What is an aim trainer? [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwpUouKXiPk[/embedyt] In the realm of first-person shooter games, aiming is the main technique that is always highlighted and is the easiest to notice. From flashy flicks to crazy team kills, having good aiming mechanics tends to be a key focus for a

If you’ve been in the gaming scene in the past few years, there’s no doubt that you have heard of Valorant. Valorant is a tactical first-person shooter developed and published by Riot Games, which was released in early 2020 worldwide. Originally released as an open beta, players could watch Twitch streamers playing

EA and Ascendant Studios have delayed the fantasy first-person magic shooter Immortals Of Aveum from its previously-planned 20 July 2023 release date. It is now slated to launch on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC one month later on 22 August 2023. The reason given is so that the developers could have more time to polish

During Summer Game Fest 2023, publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive have announced John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, coming in 2024 to PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC via the Epic Games Store. Players tag team with up to four players in this intense first-person shooter and battle massive hordes

It was just announced at Summer Game Fest 2023 that Witchfire, the dark fantasy roguelite first-person shooter, is hitting Early Access for PC via the Epic Games Store on 20 September. The folks over at The Astronauts just made the exciting announcement.   What's Witchfire about? Picture yourself in a grimdar

I’m sure you’ve seen these ridiculous headlines about skins from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive selling for five or even six-digit prices and wondered: “How are they so expensive and who is buying them?”. Well, it’s your lucky day! I’ll help to explain and break down the basics of these virtual skins,

The Warhammer 40K franchise has done real-time strategy, turn-based strategy, first-person shooters, and third-person character action games with various degrees of success. So what's next for the Games Workshop brand? How about a Twisted Metal clone that's free-to-play? That's the furthest thing from my mind, yet h