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Portal-Based Shooter Delayed Because It’s Too Dang Popular
26.7.2021
What happens when you mix the multiplayer of a first-person shooter like Halo with the space-warping portals of, well, Portal? Oh, and make it free. Apparently, you get a game that’s so popular its developers need to delay the official release by a month to make sure its servers are up...
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...
Shoot'em-Up Developer Cave Announces A Totally New Shooter For Touhou Project
13.7.2021
Today, Tokyo-based Cave announced that it’s got the okay to make a Touhou Project shooter—something that, no doubt, gets shooting game fans excited.Read more
Military Shooter Launch Event Turns Into A Racist Mess
24.6.2021
An event organized to celebrate the release of military shooter Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 had journalists and influencers take part in a mock training program based around killing “enemies” and “bad guys” who were dressed up to appear Arab, according to a report published last night by...
Prey Devs Are Making A Vampire Shooter
13.6.2021
Xbox closed out its E3 2021 presentation by revealing Redfall, the next game from Prey developer Arkane Austin. It’s coming to Xbox Series X/S in 2022 and will be available through Game Pass at launch.Read more
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...
One Year And 14 Million Active Players Later, Valorant Is Going Mobile
2.6.2021
Officially launched on June 2 of last year, Riot Games’ hero shooter Valorant has enjoyed massive success on PC, with more than a half-billion matches played and over 14 million active players. Today Riot announced plans to expand the franchise, starting with Valorant Mobile. Read more
It's A Shooter With Dinosaurs, And That's Enough For Me
29.4.2021
Dinosaurs are rad. Sadly, they rarely appear in video games. So I was excited to play Second Extinction, a new shooter featuring dinosaurs, both big and small. What I wasn’t expecting was how much this early access game would remind me of Destiny, or how much fun I would have playing it.Read more
Amid Evil Is A Good Shooter That Doesn't Need Guns
11.4.2021
Amid Evil is a wild, weird, and wonderful retro-inspired FPS that ditches the traditional shooter arsenal of pistols and SMGs in favor of more exotic weapons. Like a magic staff that shoots planets or a sword that flings waves of energy. Read more
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...
Severed Steel Is A First-Person Shooter With A One-Armed Protagonist
15.3.2021
Announced this morning on the PlayStation Blog, Greylock Studio’s Severed Steel (formerly known as Impact) is a first-person shooter starring a character who can’t reload because she only has one arm. Read more
Abandoned Shooter Six Days In Fallujah Is Being Brought Back Over A Decade Later
11.2.2021
Publisher Konami originally pulled the plug on Six Days In Fallujah, Atomic Games’ attempt to tell a realistic story about the war in Iraq based on the experience of US service members, for being too controversial. Now a new publisher and developer are resurrecting it. Read more
Control's Next-Gen Edition Finally Does Justice To Remedy's Shooter On Consoles
2.2.2021
Control left like it was pushing the last generation of consoles to their breaking points, with loads of performance issues on the old machines. Despite these problems it was a great game, my favorite of 2019. Now, with the next-gen release of Control, many of these problems are gone, and...
A First-Person Shooter Where You Can Fire 8 Guns At Once
31.1.2021
One gun in a shooter is boring. Two guns are a bit more interesting, but still nothing new. Three? You got my attention. Four? Five? Eight?! Whoa... Now we’re talking.Read more
Capcom Announces Multiplayer Shooter Resident Evil Re:Verse
21.1.2021
During today’s Resident Evil showcase, Capcom announced Resident Evil Re:Verse, a multiplayer shooter featuring characters from across the franchise.Read more
Online Gaming Platform Lets Gamers Collect BTC In First-Person Shooter Game
20.11.2019
P2P online gaming platform lets gamers hunt for Bitcoin in a fully lightning-native multiplayer first-person shooter game
The Guns N’ Bitcoin Scorpion Case Holds Your Shooter and Your Satoshis
25.6.2019
Digital assets have become very valuable over the last few years, spawning a string of devices that protect cryptocurrencies from malware and mishandling. Now there’s a company called Guns N’ Bitcoin that offers a durable case called the Scorpion that holds not only a hardware wallet...
An Indie Shooter Where One Team’s Invincible, The Other’s Invisible
16.6.2017
Competitive first-person shooters operate on all sorts of sets of unspoken rules. Teams should be, more or less, evenly powered. Opponents should die occasionally. Everyone should be visible—at least, most of the time. Aftercharge aims to break those rules.Read more