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Consumers who pre-order Far Cry 3 will get two extra missions and a weapon, Ubisoft has revealed in a new game trailer. The Far Cry 3: Lost Expeditions Edition will include two exclusive single-player levels – Forgotten Experiment and Ignition in the Deep – promising an ‘additional 40 minutes of …
Read More »Medal of Honor Warfighter coming in October
The latest effort in the Medal of Honor series has been revealed, along with word of its expected arrival in October of this year. Game Informershares that the upcoming issue of Official Xbox Magazine peels a tiny bit of the curtain back on the sequel to the 2010 series reboot. …
Read More »Killing Floor sells 1.1m copies
Indie FPS still selling well after 2009 standalone release
Read More »Doom makes Xbox Live comeback
Iconic ‘90s FPS Doom has returned to Xbox Live Arcade today after being absent for more than a year. Bethesda has re-uploaded the game to Xbox 360’s online service, and it can be downloaded for 400 Microsoft Points (around 3.50). Doom originally hit Xbox Live in 2006 via Activision, but …
Read More »New FPS title swaps a gun for a camera
A fascinating new war game in development at Australian studio Defiant Development will see gamers give up their guns and instead pick up their cameras. Warco – short for ‘War Correspondent’ – tasks players with entering the battlefield completely unarmed aside from their camera. Once escaped from the conflict gamers …
Read More »Free FPS on the way for PlayStation Home
Discussing its upcoming shift of focus for PlayStation Home, the platform holder has demoed a couple of the new titles heading to the service. And Shack News reports that one of them – Bootleggers – is a free-to-play fist person shooter that lets gamers take direct control of their Home …
Read More »Guitar Hero studio hiring for FPS
Activision-owned developer Neversoft is working on a first-person shooter for the publisher. The California-based studio is better known for producing the Tony Hawk skateboarding games and more recently the Guitar Hero music titles, before Activision scrapped the IP earlier this year. A number of jobs are now being advertised on …
Read More »F2P FPS Lethal Enterprise to use CryEngine 3
Developer New World has announced a brand new F2P first person shooter called Lethal Enterprise – and it will be powered by Crytek’s impressive CryEngine 3. NowGamer reports that there are not yet any details regarding platforms or release dates. The PC is obviously the most likely contender, though the …
Read More »Batman to star in new FPS
Warner has lifted the lid on an unlikely new video game outing for The Caped Crusader. Called Gotham City Impostors, the game offers an "exaggerated take" on the FPS genre and allows players to adopt a persona in the vein of Batman or the Joker. It is being developed by …
Read More »Bungie working on Destiny MMO FPS?
Bungie’s next project is believed to be a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter named Destiny. The nature of its new game universe – which will be published by Activision – was reportedly outed by a source claiming to be an ex-Bungie employee, according to Kotaku. Destiny – allegedly codenamed Tiger” …
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