Filed under: PC, First Person Shooters

Alma just won’t be contained in a box. Warner Bros. sent word that the recently renamed F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin will be released over both Valve’s Steam and IGN’s Direct2Drive digital distribution services on February 10, 2009.
If that date sounds familiar, it’s the same day the survival horror FPS [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Metareviews

It may have gotten lost in the pre-holiday hubbub for some of you, but, judging by the bulk of reviews that have dropped, Far Cry 2 is an experience you don’t want to miss. We’ve spent some quality time with it, and if [...]

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File under Curious. The Unfinished Swan, an XNA project from indie coder Ian Dallas, is a novel take on the FPS genre, set in an entirely colorless world.
Don’t worry, it’s not one of those ‘bringing color back to the Kingdom Of Sad’ lamefests. Instead, you need to reveal the landscape around you by firing blobs [...]

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File under Curious. The Unfinished Swan, an XNA project from indie coder Ian Dallas, is a novel take on the FPS genre, set in an entirely colorless world.
Don’t worry, it’s not one of those ‘bringing color back to the Kingdom Of Sad’ lamefests. Instead, you need to reveal the landscape around you by firing blobs [...]

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What happens when you take one of the most successful shooters of 2004, change the development teams, scrap the old settings, characters, and story lines, and even go as far as creating your own version of the original game’s award-winning engine? You get Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2, the story of one man’s struggle to [...]

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What happens when you take one of the most successful shooters of 2004, change the development teams, scrap the old settings, characters, and story lines, and even go as far as creating your own version of the original game’s award-winning engine? You get Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2, the story of one man’s struggle to [...]

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What happens when you take one of the most successful shooters of 2004, change the development teams, scrap the old settings, characters, and story lines, and even go as far as creating your own version of the original game’s award-winning engine? You get Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2, the story of one man’s struggle to [...]

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What happens when you take one of the most successful shooters of 2004, change the development teams, scrap the old settings, characters, and story lines, and even go as far as creating your own version of the original game’s award-winning engine? You get Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2, the story of one man’s struggle to [...]

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Come with us into the first 15 minutes of Ubisoft’s sandbox FPS Far Cry 2 as we try our best to demo the game’s features while keeping our heads down.  Malaria, multiple factions, bullets and fire… and a partridge in a pear tree.  What more could you ask for?
Far Cry 2 is available now for [...]

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Come with us into the first 15 minutes of Ubisoft’s sandbox FPS Far Cry 2 as we try our best to demo the game’s features while keeping our heads down.  Malaria, multiple factions, bullets and fire… and a partridge in a pear tree.  What more could you ask for?
Far Cry 2 is available now for [...]

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Nexon America isn’t just for tweens looking to play cutesy, anime-inspired MMO titles anymore. Their online multiplayer shooter Combat Arms, launched in open beta form just this past July, now boasts over one million registered users. To celebrate, Nexon is releasing two new patches that add a new game mode and map to the [...]

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Nexon America isn’t just for tweens looking to play cutesy, anime-inspired MMO titles anymore. Their online multiplayer shooter Combat Arms, launched in open beta form just this past July, now boasts over one million registered users. To celebrate, Nexon is releasing two new patches that add a new game mode and map to the [...]

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Nexon America isn’t just for tweens looking to play cutesy, anime-inspired MMO titles anymore. Their online multiplayer shooter Combat Arms, launched in open beta form just this past July, now boasts over one million registered users. To celebrate, Nexon is releasing two new patches that add a new game mode and map to the [...]

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Filed under: Tech stuff, Video, Features, Revolutionary

hertz (hûrts)n. pl. hertz Abbr. Hz A unit of frequency equal to 1 cycle per second.
Arcade kings like Sega and Namco packed some cutting edge hardware inside those cabinets to draw and redraw complex scenes up to sixty times a second. Some of the companies that designed that hardware [...]

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Filed under: Tech stuff, Video, Features, Revolutionary

hertz (hûrts)n. pl. hertz Abbr. Hz A unit of frequency equal to 1 cycle per second.
Arcade kings like Sega and Namco packed some cutting edge hardware inside those cabinets to draw and redraw complex scenes up to sixty times a second. Some of the companies that designed that hardware [...]

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Nexon America isn’t just for tweens looking to play cutesy, anime-inspired MMO titles anymore. Their online multiplayer shooter Combat Arms, launched in open beta form just this past July, now boasts over one million registered users. To celebrate, Nexon is releasing two new patches that add a new game mode and map to the [...]

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Nexon America’s PC FPS title, Combat Arms, is a huge treat for us gamers. Not only is it free (that’s right) but also you can enjoy the online frag-fest with over a million players. Since its beta launch this recent July, Combat Arms has garnered over one million registered users.
And, to celebrate its million milestone, [...]

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It’s a great day to be shopping for games today (maybe not so great for your wallet, but who cares!). You got your BioShock for your PS3 and Fable II on your Xbox 360. But that’s not all because Ubisoft’s FPS sequel, Far Cry 2, launches to both systems today including the PC. Set in [...]

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To celebrate it’s launch day, Ubisoft Montreal gives us one last good piece of advice before diving headlong into the sandbox-FPS Fry Cry 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)… BETRAY EVERYONE.
Far Cry 2 Launch Trailer

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To celebrate it’s launch day, Ubisoft Montreal gives us one last good piece of advice before diving headlong into the sandbox-FPS Fry Cry 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)… BETRAY EVERYONE.
Far Cry 2 Launch Trailer

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Business

Epic’s VP Mark Rein has put to rest any notion that Unreal Tournament III is one of Midway’s underperforming licensed titles soon to be dropped by the publisher. Rein tells Gamespot that Epic’s deal with Midway isn’t a licensing deal, but a publishing [...]

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Epic’s VP Mark Rein has put to rest any notion that Unreal Tournament III is one of Midway’s underperforming licensed titles soon to be dropped by the publisher. Rein tells Gamespot that Epic’s deal with Midway isn’t a licensing deal, but a publishing [...]

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Epic Games’s Mark Rein confirmed that an expansion is in the works for their FPS frag-fest title, Unreal Tournament III, according to the report by GameSpot.
"We’re working together on a major expansion that we expect will excite and grow our UT3 customer base," said Rein. He added that Epic is working with Midway in developing [...]

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Treyarch producer Noah Heller touched on the subject that their upcoming FPS title Call of Duty: World At War may be the last game that will support a World War II setting. With the exception of Infinity Ward’s massive hit Modern Warfare the Call of Duty game series have always faced-off against the Nazi regime.
In [...]

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Aside from giving gamers a handful of shiny bronze, silver and gold Trophy achievements, Sony might be considering rewarding Trophy seekers with actual goodies, according to a rumor from Official Playstation Magazine. The rumor reads:
"We’ve heard that SCEA is mulling over some sort of Trophy reward system. We doubt it’ll be cash (or the equivalent) [...]

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Sony Europe has delayed the multiplayer beta for Insomniac’s upcoming FPS sequel Resistance 2 to an as-of-yet unannounced date, according to a report by IGN. The title’s set to be released this November 28 in European regions.
Meanwhile, the beta is still active in North America where the title is expected to arrive this November 4. [...]

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Tom Endo has an interesting musing up over at the Escapist on the subject of guns, games, and game design — the issue at stake is what guns really mean in video games (his answer is ‘not much, especially not compared to movies’). Dirty Harry may be a love letter to the .44 Magnum, [...]

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Tom Endo has an interesting musing up over at the Escapist on the subject of guns, games, and game design — the issue at stake is what guns really mean in video games (his answer is ‘not much, especially not compared to movies’). Dirty Harry may be a love letter to the .44 Magnum, [...]

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Resistance 2, Insomniac’s follow up to the original PlayStation 3 exclusive FPS, will ship with a much-expanded multiplayer offering. The public beta went live today and we’re finally able to bring you guys footage.
Other things to note in the beta are the in-game friends list support and the overall stability of the game. It’s definitely [...]

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Insomniac’s highly anticipated FPS sequel, Resistance 2, has gone gold and launches its multiplayer beta today in North America. The Chimera’s second PS3 invasion will support up to 60 players online in its multiplayer mode, including an eight player co-op mode.
Users who qualified for the beta through GameStop pre-orders and QORE subscribers can look forward [...]

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