Tag: FPS

Call of Duty has been the biggest-selling shooter in the US since 2006, but that could soon change according to industry analyst: ‘This part of the market hasn’t been this competitive in 20 years’

Activision‘s camo-clad cash cow Call of Duty has ruled the shooter roost for almost 20 years in the US, consistently topping the charts for games involving guns since 2006. But according to games industry analyst Mat Piscatella, that might just change in 2025. Sharing some insights on Bluesky, (via GameSpot) Piscatella pointed out “the last […]

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Best X9 Maverick loadout in Black Ops 7

With the rapid-fire pacing of Black Ops 7, fully-automatic weapons have been hogging the spotlight. It’s time to accept the truth: You’ve all been sleeping on the X9 Maverick, and the best X9 Maverick loadout in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will help you dominate lobbies from a safe distance. This three-round burst assault […]

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After its ‘make FPS great again’ controversy, Splitgate 2 is relaunching with a humbler tone: ‘The goal is to grow over time, not aim for a massive splash on day 1’

Troubled team-based shooter Splitgate 2 is coming back earlier than expected: Rather than re-launching in 2026 as originally planned, developer 1047 Games says the beta servers will be taken offline on December 4, and a full-on re-release will follow later in the month. “Thank you to everyone who participated in the Splitgate 2 Beta!” the […]

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The first thing Bungie asked LucasFilm about its Star Wars-themed Destiny 2 expansion was: “What is the bad version of this?”

You know the emergency lights are blinking at Bungie when the developer starts putting out balance changes with triple digit percent buffs in a bid to lure Destiny 2’s dwindling playerbase back. That was the case with yesterday’s ability tuning blog, which saw the Hunter class eating especially well. (About time too.) Today, attention turned […]

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Battlefield 6 player hits max rank with ‘death trap’ jeep everybody hates, and it only cost his sanity: ‘It’s a bad vehicle’

It’s been well established on this website that Battlefield 6’s transport jeep is an abomination. Not only is the Light Ground Transport (LGT) bad at its only job of safely transporting players from A to B, but despite its high mobility and machinegun nest, its lack of armor plating means your chance of survival goes […]

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Escape from Tarkov director says the launch week’s wobbles were ‘actual stress testing not only of our servers but also our mind and nerves’

Escape From Tarkov released on Steam on November 15, taking the excellent extraction shooter out of beta after a mere eight years, and almost immediately had a bit of a wobble. Players found themselves unable to log in, with demand being such that developer Battlestate Games acknowledged severe server woes, and then came the inevitable […]

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Almost 13 years since reveal, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally out: ‘Sorry it took so long. We’ve only been making the largest free content video game ever’

After 13 years hacking through the development wilderness, TimeSplitters Rewind is out. Its creators revealed last month that the CryEngine-powered mod would finally be released in November. True to their word, Rewind is available to download now. Rewind is a somewhat unusual fan project, a mixture of remake, compilation and spiritual successor to the first […]

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A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop’s toe created a ‘time-travelling’ bug that softlocked all versions of the game

One of the coolest things about Half-Life 2 is its physics engine, but as anyone who has played a physics-based game will know, even the best-in-class tech is prone to quirks here and there. Valve’s legendary narrative shooter was no exception, as former Valve developer Tom Forsyth shared in a thread on Mastodon. In the […]

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5 months after launch, cooperative shooter FBC Firebreak finally has integrated voice chat, but its Vampire Survivors-style wave mode is delayed until next year

While a lack of voice chat wasn’t the biggest problem with FBC: Firebreak when it released in June, it was certainly one of the issues that led it to fall flat with myself and players in general. Given Firebreak is a cooperative shooter where teamwork is crucial to survival, being able to communicate with friends […]

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Doom: The Dark Ages’ latest update overhauls its customisable arena mode, and id Software wants to add the best player-made slaughter-fests as selectable presets

Doom: The Dark Ages received a whole new mode back in August—the wave-based “Ripatorium” that allows players to build their own demonic encounters. But it seems id Software has had a rethink about the Ripatorium, as The Dark Ages’ latest update substantially overhauls how it works. While update 2.3 is mainly Ripatorium focussed, it’s worth […]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 review

Need to know What is it? Near-future aim down sights shooting.Release date: November 14, 2025Expect to pay: $70 Developer: TreyarchPublisher: ActivisionReviewed on: Ryzen 7 7700, RX 7800 XT, 64gb DDR5Steam Deck: UnverifiedLink: Official website It only takes a single mission in Black Ops 7’s atrocious co-op campaign to figure out what the scheme with this […]

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The PUBG extraction shooter spinoff springs back to life with a closed alpha test set for December, and its focus on exploration over pure combat sounds a lot like my favorite part of Arc Raiders

We learned in 2023 that PUBG was being fitted for an extraction shooter spinoff, referred to at the time as Project Black Budget. It was set to launch in the second half of 2024, but then 2024 came, Project Black Budget didn’t, and frankly we forgot about the whole thing. I did, anyway. Now, as […]

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‘We’ve got some big changes coming in Season 1’: Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s design director talks buffing aim assist, adjusting spawn locations, and a drone pod nerf ahead of the next season

Dev Talk – Post-Launch Update | Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – YouTube Watch On Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 1 is only a couple of weeks away, but as we creep closer, the devs are still fine-tuning the multiplayer and campaign experience to ensure they’re both as smooth as possible. We’ve […]

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Another Marathon playtest is coming in December, but this one is restricted to North America and it’s still ‘strictly under an NDA’

Sony said earlier this month that Marathon, Bungie’s super-sexy but deeply troubled extraction shooter, is coming out one way or the other in March 2026, and it’ll clean up the mess—that is, “make corrections”—as needed once it’s out the door. But it’s still making corrections before that, too, and interested run-and-gunners will have a chance […]

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“Out of all the 40k options, they picked this?”: Fans are furious about the reveal of Darktide’s new class—and they might have a point this time

In the run up to the reveal of Darktide’s latest new class, speculation has run rampant in the community. A week’s delay on the announcement only created more space for fans to stretch their imaginations, placing their bets on everything from a Sister of Battle to a kroot warrior to an Adeptus Mechanicus tech priest. […]

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Overwatch 2’s first melee damage hero was ‘pushed forward’ in the release schedule despite fans expecting a new tank: ‘It’s more about servicing that playstyle that we really didn’t have in the roster’

La Lupa | Vendetta Hero Trailer | Overwatch 2 – YouTube Watch On Whenever a new Overwatch hero is on the horizon, everyone tries to guess which of the three roles they’ll fit into. There’s been a pattern ever since Overwatch 2 came out where Blizzard releases at least one tank, one support, and one […]

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My prayers have been answered: Battlefield 6 Engineers can now spawn with 5 rockets, meaning you can send tanks straight to the scrap yard

Life as an Engineer in Battlefield 6 can be unforgiving, especially if you’re on defense. Spending all your time, energy, and resources on killing a gaggle of tanks with a whole squad of Engineers behind them can, at times, feel like a worse fate than Sisyphus rolling his boulder up a hill; at least he […]

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Treyarch is opening up Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s Endgame extraction shooter to everyone after realising that most people probably won’t finish the campaign

Treyarch has taken some big swings with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this year, and while not all of them have landed (what the hell is that giant dude doing in the campaign?), one has done a better job than the rest: the extraction shooter-style Endgame mode. After finishing the campaign, players get access […]

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Geoff Keighley denies he’s hiding Half-Life 3 in his Steam wishlist, posts a screenshot to prove it, nobody believes him, and I’m starting to wonder if he’s just messing with us

Half-Life 3 fever has been running hot this week, for reasons—and I use that term loosely—we laid out here, which can very generally be described as “it’s November and we’re all a little bored and restless.” One small bit of pseudo-evidence did catch my eye, though: As PC Gamer’s freest man Tyler Wilde noted, “Geoff […]

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Borderlands 4 has a ‘very stupid’ glitch that lets you unlock a character’s most powerful abilities before refunding all your skill points, but don’t expect it to be around long as Gearbox says ‘we’re on it’

Borderlands 4 players have already discovered some ridiculous glitches and exploits, like its overpowered crit knives that were subsequently nerfed, and a bugged interaction that caused “total existence failure” for endgame bosses. But the latest glitch discovered in Gearbox’s looter shooter might just take the cake, allowing players to unlock a character’s most powerful abilities […]

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Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there’s (almost) no good reason to believe is happening

Half-Life 3 fever has once again broken out across social media, and the Half-Life subreddit is full of both earnestly hopeful and sarcastically dismissive posts about the supposedly imminent announcement of a sequel to Valve’s landmark 2004 shooter—probably the most speculated-about game ever not to exist. You might think that all this anticipation was prompted […]

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Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: ‘If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out’

Team Jade released a new trailer for its military FPS Delta Force earlier today, kicking off the new ‘Asarah’ Season that introduces a new map for its Battlefield-style Warfare mode and an event for its extraction-themed Operations mode. Soon after the Chinese company came under fire from the COO of Facepunch Studios, Alistair McFarlane, as […]

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Battlefield 6 is putting on a week-long free trial to celebrate the latest seasonal content, which brings the warzone to an affluent Californian neighbourhood

The latest update for Battlefield 6 adds new seasonal content for the main multiplayer and Redsec. And to celebrate all this new content, Battlefield 6 will also be putting on a free-to-play event for a week, to show off some specific maps and modes. “Later this month, players can jump into Battlefield 6 via a […]

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