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Concord Is A Really Good Multiplayer Shooter, But That Doesn't Feel Like Enough
15.7.2024
The reaction to Concord wasn’t great during Sony’s State of Play earlier this year. But after playing a few hours of the sci-fi FPS on PS5, I’m sold on Concord’s mix of hero-shooter action and tight Call of Duty-like gameplay. The only question is: Will people be willing to spend $40 for...
9 Things We Just Learned About PlayStation's Sci-Fi Shooter Concord
27.6.2024
Concord is Sony’s next big PlayStation bet on live service gaming and the sci-fi shooter is just a couple months away. A recent batch of previews finally gave us a better idea of what to expect, and the reactions so far are as mixed as fans’ were after seeing the initial gameplay at last month’s...
Riot’s Hero Shooter Valorant Is Finally Coming To Consoles
8.6.2024
Riot Games, the company best known for MOBA League of Legends, is bringing its free-to-play 5v5 hero shooter Valorant to consoles after four years of PC exclusivity. The game melds elements of hero shooters like Overwatch and tactical shooters like Counter-Strike, and it has a robust esports...
PlayStation Hero Shooter Concord Follows Helldivers 2 With $40 Price Tag
6.6.2024
Concord, Sony’s next big live-service video game, will apparently cost $40 according to a pre-order page found on the PlayStation store in Australia. This puts it in the same price range as Helldivers 2 and seems to be another sign that Sony’s live-service titles won’t all be free-to-play like...
The Internet Reacts To PlayStation’s New Not-Guardians Of The Galaxy Hero Shooter
3.6.2024
Concord, the upcoming hero shooter from Firewalk Studios, got a fair bit of spotlight at Sony’s May State of Play presentation. The showcase led with a lengthy cinematic trailer introducing the game’s wacky band of misfits, and the internet immediately clocked it as a Guardians of the Galaxy-esque...
Our First Look At Concord, PlayStation's Guardians Of The Galaxy-Infused Hero Shooter
31.5.2024
Sony finally pulled back the curtain to reveal what Concord is actually about. It’s giving Guardians of the Galaxy vibes mixed with a traditional competitive shooter. The PvP FPS was first teased a year ago and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year on August 23. Read more
Valve's New Hero Shooter Is Leaking All Over The Place And Fans Are Confused
22.5.2024
Valve—the company behind Half-Life and Steam—is working on a new game likely named Deadlock. It’sprobably a third-person team-based hero-shooter with MOBA and tower defense elements. And people are playing it right now via a closed and private beta. However, some of those same people have started...
Marvel Unveils Its Overwatch-Style Hero Shooter, Marvel Rivals
27.3.2024
After some teases and leaks, Marvel and NetEase Games have officially revealed Marvel Rivals. The game is a free-to-play, 6v6 hero shooter in the style of Overwatch, but it’s in third-person and stars superheroes from across Marvel’s various comics. While we’ve only seen one trailer, it looks like...
New Overwatch 2 Changes Continue An Upsetting Trend
23.2.2024
Since Overwatch 2’s controversial launch, Blizzard has made a lot of massive changes to its hero shooter formula. First, it changed the core team makeup from 6v6 to 5v5, then it gutted its promised PvE mode, reworked heroes, added new game modes, and gave every character passive healing abilities....
Gigantic’s Return Feels Like The Anti-Overwatch In The Best Way
20.2.2024
I never played Gigantic when the team-based MOBA shooter was active from 2017 to 2018, or when it was briefly revived in 2023. Now, publisher Gearbox and developer Abstraction Games are reviving the Motiga shooter as Gigantic: Rampage Edition, and when I played a few rounds via a remote preview...
Overwatch 2’s Latest Change Has The Community Shook
14.2.2024
Overwatch 2’s ninth season is underway, and it’s bringing some sweeping changes to the hero shooter. On top of reworking Pharah and giving every hero both a health buff and a passive heal, Blizzard also increased the projectile size of most heroes’ weapons. In layperson’s terms, they made...
Meet The Star Wars Game That Feels Like It's Never Coming Out
9.11.2023
Back in 2021, developer Zynga (FarmVille, Words With Friends) unveiled a squad-based, Overwatch-like hero shooter using the Star Wars license. Dubbed Star Wars: Hunters, this free-to-play PvP experience was originally slated to launch later that year, but was delayed to 2023 in July 2022. Now,...
Gearbox Is Reviving A Dead Hero Shooter For 3 Days (No, Not Battleborn)
4.10.2023
You remember Gigantic, don’t you? The hero shooter from Motiga that was released in 2017 and, uh, died a year later? Well no worries if not, because Gearbox is bringing the ill-fated hero shooter back for a limited-time event from October 5 to 7, 2023. Read more
Despite Advancements, Games Still Aren't Doing Enough To Stop Toxic Voice Chat
21.7.2023
I started regularly playing competitive online games in 2007, with the launch of Halo 3. Back then, participating in in-game voice chat was harrowing for a 17-year-old girl whose voice betrayed her gender and her youth. I was subjected to such frequent and horrific hostility (rape threats...
Overwatch 2 Pre-reviews Think It's Worth A Sequel, But Say The Grind Is A Major Bummer
30.9.2022
Overwatch 2 is almost here, arriving as a free-to-play game on October 4 that will totally supplant the OG hero shooter. While it isn’t playable to the general public yet, a handful of gaming outlets got early access to Blizzard’s upcoming sequel, publishing prereviews just in time for launch day....
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