Tag Archives: FPS

https://youtu.be/jYYs_e3Yoc4 Today’s Greenlight spotlight shines on The 31st. The 31st is a uniquely Halloween-themed FPS developed by a small indie team of three people. First off, I’d like to apologize for the lack of a spotlight for yesterday, but I was away celebrating the holiday. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk a bit more about ...

Overwatch was announced at this year’s BlizzCon and Blizzard’s first foray into the realm of FPS games promises to be an exciting addition to their diverse line up. For those that don’t know, Overwatch is a team based FPS that currently features a lineup of 12 playable heroes; all of which fall into one of four roles based upon their ...

Map Packs aren’t anything new. We have $50 Season Passes for games like Call of Duty and Battlefield. With the individual prices of the packs costing a whopping $15 for 3-5 maps. Well, it looks like turtle Rock wants to play the good guy, as they have announced that their DLC Maps will all be free for Evolve. This comes ...

Assassin’s Creed Unity’s publisher and developers are still struggling with patching up their latest entry in the mega-popular franchise, this resulting in yet another update on the game’s official blog. Some players have recently suggested lowering the number of NPCs displayed in any one scene, suspecting it has something to do with Unity’s frames-per-second dropping so low. Apparently, that’s not ...

Ubisoft has lately developed a habit of showing up in weekly news with behind the scenes info on their upcoming titles, and this time Far Cry 4 holds the front page with two well known and overly debated subjects: resolution and FPS. On top of this, news on single-player campaign length have emerged. This time, Far Cry 4 creative director, ...

Australian indie developer Turbo Pixel has started a Kickstarter that aims to raise funds for developing a competitive arena shooter similar to the well known Quake games. Their project is named Reflex and in order to be able to make it, they need to get the equivalent to $320.000 in Australian dollars. According to the developer, Reflex is going to ...

Crytek launched the free-to-play multiplayer FPS Warface on Steam today. The game hasn’t been very well received in most parts of the world before, but the company hopes that this move will change all that. “Bringing Warface to Steam paves the way for a new audience to discover the game’s engrossing cooperative and competitive action; completely for free,” Warface director Hasit Zala said. “As ...

Battlefield: Hardline, the upcoming cops-and-robbers style spinoff of the Battlefield franchise, is releasing later this year in October, almost a year after the buggy Battlefield 4 launch. What does this mean for the franchise? According to EA Studios Executive Vice President Patrick Söderlund, absolutely nothing. “Actually, the idea of a cops and robbers type Battlefield game has been with us ...

Wolfenstein: The New Order is a few days away, but some copies of the game have made it out into the wild and into the consoles of gamers. Although we can’t yet comment on the quality of the game, we can report on the fact that the game has huge day one patches already online for both Xbox One and ...

The closing of GameSpy at the end of this month is shaking up the industry. On one hand, this event shows that gaming is changing, and the need for 3rd party dedicated multiplayer servers is a thing of the past, and on the other hand, it shows how much some companies care about their titles, as is the case with ...