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New Deal Offers 8 Great Shooters For Just $10
22.1.2024
A new deal letting you create your own bundle of shooters, with options that include new classics like Dusk or older hits like Doom, is the best way to instantly fill your Steam library with some of the best FPS games ever made for just $10 or less.Read more
Suicide Squad Devs Spent Last Year Ripping Out Hated Gear Scores
12.1.2024
Suicide Squad devs have confirmed that gear score, one of the more controversial elements of Rocksteady’s upcoming co-op shooter, has been entirely removed from the game. However, the game is still very much a looter-shooter.Read more
The Best Shooters Of 2023
28.12.2023
2023 was yet another solid year for fans of shooty-shooty-bang-bang video games. While the Golden Era of shooters might be slowing down as the year wraps up, we still got some dang good ones, both in first-person and third-person variants, over these past 12 months. Read more
Free-To-Play Shooter Shuts Down For Good Due To Cheaters
29.6.2023
Developer Yager Development has announced that its free-to-play multiplayer shooter The Cycle: Frontier will go offline forever on September 27. The developer gave a few reasons for the shutdown, including an interesting one: Cheaters ruined the experience for everyone involved.Read more
Shooter Dev Threatens To Ban Anyone For Sharing Game Secrets
29.6.2023
No one likes a spoiled surprise. But if you’re Battlestate Games, developers of the indie extraction shooter Escape From Tarkov, then you really, really, really don’t like it. Recently, the dev has threatened to ban anyone who datamines or even shares datamined content from the game. The threatens...
New Retro FPS Is The GoldenEye 64 Sequel You Always Wanted
14.6.2022
Although rumors have recently been inescapable that a remaster of Rare’s landmark N64 shooter, GoldenEye 007, is coming soon, as of yet there’s been no official announcement. Thankfully, you don’t have to wait for a remaster of GoldenEye to play that kind of game again. A new Steam shooter, Agent...
Redfall Gameplay Shows Off Squad-Based Vampire Shootouts
12.6.2022
Microsoft showed off several minutes of gameplay for its upcoming co-op first-person shooter Redfall at today’s 2022 Xbox Showcase. The multiplayer agme about freeing a New England town from demonic forces looks like it will have loot, class-based combat, and a few jump scares along the way.Read...
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Fixes Borderlands 3's Legendary Problem (This Changes Everything)
28.4.2022
Ch-Ching! For Borderlands fans, that noise sets off an almost pavlovian response. A legendary gun has dropped. You’ve gotta be the first to get it. You heard that noise all the damn time in Borderlands 3. If you’ve been messing around in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, you may feel like it happens less....
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Players Trolled By Loot
1.4.2022
Loot shooter series Borderlands is about picking up a shiny new gun one minute and throwing it away for something more powerful the next. TIny Tina’s Wonderlands continues this trend, but with a few added wrinkles that can end up trolling unsuspecting players who aren’t paying close enough...
New Agent Neon Brings Sprinting And Sliding To Valorant
5.1.2022
In her recent (and gorgeous) reveal trailer, Neon, the newest agent about to be introduced to Riot’s team-based tactical shooter, Valorant, breaks the cardinal rule of the sweaty, tryhard, head-clicking tac-shooter genre—she can actually move fluidly.Read more
The Best Shooters Of 2021
11.12.2021
Video game shooters once dominated the gaming landscape. Today, well okay... they sort of still do. But, the variety and diversity of shooters has truly blossomed in the last few years. Now we have hardcore military sims, colorful live games filled with wild quests, VR titles pushing the bounds...
Beloved Shooter Titanfall Will Be Pulled From Stores Permanently
1.12.2021
Titanfall, the game which catapulted Respawn Entertainment to the status of EA’s star studio, is being pulled from digital storefronts and subscription services on March 1, 2022. This, to me? Sucks. However—given the game’s recent brush with some very bad hacking—it isn’t particularly surprising...
Apex Legends Removes Tech That Grew Beef Between PC and Console Fans
1.9.2021
Apex Legends, the battle royale movement shooter developed by Repsawn Entertainment, is no stranger to controversy. Because Apex supports crossplay, PC and Console players have been beefing for a while over the slight differences and advantages each side gets from their platform of choice. All...
A New Retro Shooter About Helping People Dress Better
15.8.2021
Do I have a passion for fashion? No. Not at all. My style is a mix of old shirts I won’t get rid of and comfy shorts and pants. But while my own style is terrible and would make Tim Gunn shake his head, in Fashion Police Squad I can help the rest of the world look better using silly weapons...
10 Gimmick Shooters From The Early 2000s You Might Not Remember
15.7.2021
In the late ‘00s, before every game became a MOBA and then pivoted to become a battle royale, it seemed like every other game was a shooter with some sort of gimmick to make it stand out from the Calls of Duty and Battlefields. From gravity manipulation to doing drugs, here’s a bunch of the oddball...
Necromunda: Hired Gun Will Be Fun Once It Runs Better
4.6.2021
It’s hard being a mercenary in the Warhammer 40k universe. Even though you get a cool hound and can upgrade your powerful guns, everything you encounter is deadly and dangerous. Most things are covered in big spikes and probably packing some weapons too. But it’s even harder to be a hired gun...
Outriders: The Kotaku Review
9.4.2021
Outriders isn’t what I was expecting. In the lead-up to launch, it looked like one more Destiny-like looter shooter to toss on the pile. But while it does have looting, shooting and even online co-op, Outriders isn’t just another live service game. In a lot of ways, it feels like an experiment...