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First Person Shooter EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag 'The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned' gets its own site 6 November 24? Why, that's next week! In the rush of recent releases, I had almost forgotten about my beloved Borderlands and its premier downloadable content pack, "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned." ... What the foxtrot? Jurassic: The Hunted gets an XBL demo 8 I'm starting to feel legitimately bad for giving Jurassic: The Hunted so much positive attention. Some people seem to be mistaking our affection for the game as completely sincere, thinking it's... Serious Sam HD has seriously gone gold 18 Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter has gone gold, and is now up for pre-purchase over on Steam. Doing so will allow you to keep a few extra dollars in hand as you wait for the game to unlock on ... Shattered Horizon getting a freebie map pack 14 It sounds like Futuremark Games Studio, the folks behind the newish zero gravity PC FPS Shattered Horizon, have plans to give back to all of the guys and gals who downloaded the game. The first d... Hey Borderlands PC players, here's that patch you wanted 23 Update 1.01 for the PC version of Borderlands is here! Thank goodness, because after looking over the patch notes, you can't help but notice just how big some of these issues really are. Charact... MW2's Ghost possibly getting his own game 60 Having now charged through Modern Warfare 2's single player twice I am confident that I still have no idea who any of the other guys in the squad are other than Price and Soap. I know there was w... MW2 sells twice as well on the 360 105 Hold on. Let me get out my lighter fluid and my large fan because I'm about to douse some fanboy flames in the stuff then fan them until they're miles high. I know some of you had to be wondering... Off-Brand Games: Chex Quest 85 [Community blogger megaStryke likes to play old games that ripped off other games for his Off Brand Games feature. -- CTZ] It wasn't that long ago when just about every item on store shelves came... Extremely lucky knife throw in Modern Warfare 2 81 Remember when sticky grenade throws in Halo 3 were all the rage? Now it's knife throwing in Modern Warfare 2. Also, "THAT'S BULLSHIT!" Medal of Honor: Modern Combat seems inevitable 38 World War II? That's so 1944! A few weeks ago we talked to you about Medal of Honor: Modern Combat, a name that had been trademarked by Electronic Arts and seemed to indicate that the series woul... EA has not forgotten about the Medal of Honor franchise 27 Hey, remember Medal of Honor? It was that other World War II game that people loved so much. The last we heard of the series was in 2007 with Medal of Honor: Airborne and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2... Being a face in the crowd with the PS3's 256-player MAG 46 MAG, the PlayStation 3-exclusive first-person shooter that boasts 256-player multiplayer, is set to release on January 26, 2010. So to get people geared up and ready, Sony invited us to a one-on-... Shattered Horizon deserves a look, so give it one 25 Why haven't I posted about Futuremark Games Studio's self-published, FPS-in-space Shattered Horizon? That's a damn good question, really. As a lover of Dead Space and all things similar in natur... The rush that is Bad Company 2's multiplayer 39 The signature multiplayer mode from the original Battlefield: Bad Company, Gold Rush, is back in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now simply called Rush, two teams battle it out on a slowly expanding ... Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta begins on Nov. 19 for PS3 17 Wow, it's been a while since we've seen a big-name first-person shooter get a beta. Filling the void of free online mayhem will be none other than Battlefield: Bad Company 2, with its multiplaye... Game SERIES Debate to the Death! MGS VS Half-Life 237 Last week's bonus questions brought in even more discussion than the week before, and when you outdo a Zelda and Final Fantasy debate, that's saying something. And boy did you guys and gamer girl... Jurassic: The Hunted Wii footage delivers ... and how! 19 Budget dinosaur murder simulator Jurassic: The Hunted is out this week on all consoles, which is breaking news in and of itself. But to sweeten the deal, we have some unedited gameplay footage f... Pre-order L4D2, wear Bill's hat in Team Fortress 2 25 Pre-order Left 4 Dead 2 for PC on Steam or through participating retailers and you'll be able to wear Bill's hat from Left 4 Dead in Team Fortress 2. The hat is available right now for all to wea... Brink devs still up in the air about split-screen play 24 Online multiplayer has pretty much made split-screen gameplay its bitch. The function has been abandoned in half the games out there, and in the ones that it is in it makes one wonder how often i... Celebrate Halloween the Team Fortress 2 way 11 Valve is getting into the spirit of Halloween this week as they have some special spooky themed Team Fortress 2 stuff to unleash upon the masses lasting until November 2. The update will bring in... Dementium II debut trailer will chill you to the bone 12 The debut trailer for Dementium II is upon us and it will creep you out. The video begins with scenes from the first game and then jumps over to the sequel. The Doctor, main bad guy of Dementium... Borderlands console patches going live soon ... real soon 35 It's a real bummer that some people are experiencing a wide variety of technical issues with Borderlands on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. I was lucky enough to not run into any of them, but fr... BioShock 2: Why there's more than one Big Sister now 31 During the hands-on preview night of BioShock 2, we learned a lot of new details about the game. Probably one of the bigger revelations about the BioShock 2 that was shown was the fact that there... BioShock 2 through the eyes of Big Daddy 32 In 1960, a man named Jack came down to Rapture and did things that would change the city forever. He killed the founder of Rapture, Andrew Ryan, took away the precious ADAM supply by taking the L... CoJ: Bound in Blood patched, load times reduced for PS3 12 Maybe, just maybe, a patch will reinvigorate what little online community for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood there is left. Assuming there is any at all. Up for download on both Xbox 360 and Play... Going to Hell and back in Dementium II 21 Dementium: The Ward was the first game by the folks at Renegade Kid. It was an impressive first outing for the company -- they were able to make a great first-person shooter and survival horror g... Game SERIES Debate to the Death! Halo VS Half-Life 244 Last week I introduced a new format for these weekly game debates, and it went great! I used two of the most loved series in the game industry of all time, and the result was just as vicious... Metro 2033 dev focused on story, skipping multiplayer 23 Much to my delight, we've seen a lot of games in recent times delve into the subject matter of life in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. What we haven't really seen, however, is such a theme taking p... THQ sends me tickets to ride Metro 2033 12 This weekend, I received a nondescript envelope in the mail. Inside the brown envelope I found a letter confirming my trip to ride the Moscow Metro, along with two tickets. I immediately made the... Insomniac bummed over Resistance 2 fan response 49 Developers make games for the fans -- or at least they say they do. A lot of times I think it's for the money, but in the case of Insomniac we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Since they ma... AVA banner ads go after Modern Warfare 2 36 Advertising: No matter how retarded your idea is someone will eventually bump into it and pay attention. While not surfing for pornography one of our readers spotted an advertisement for Allianc... Gentlemen, start your Left 4 Dead 2 demo pre-loads 18 Did you pre-order Left 4 Dead 2 through Steam and simply cannot wait to get those files on your computer? Even if you can't play them until Tuesday, just having the files there on your computer w... Gearbox talks Borderlands on Wii, Claptrap side-scroller 21 A double dose of Borderlands stories does the soul some good. Not long ago, CBS 11 News got together with Gearbox Software VP Brian Martel to discuss a range of topics, all of which were rooted i... First look at Metro 33 reveals monster, broken things 21 Earlier today, THQ announced that it would be publishing Metro 2033, a first-person shooter based on a best-selling Russian novel, for Xbox 360 and PC in early 2010. Now, we bring you the fi... Six Days in Fallujah not dead yet! 16 When Six Days in Fallujah was first announced as an FPS based upon the real-life Middle Eastern conflict, people jumped at the chance to take a sh*t all over it. Konami lost its nerve and dropped... THQ snaps up new FPS, Metro 2033 30 Strap yourselves in and prepare for yet another post-apocalyptic shooter, folks! THQ has revealed that it is publishing a new first-person-shooter from Ukrainian studio 4A Games. According to THQ... Play Killing Floor for free this weekend 26 Here's another free weekend courtesy of the cats at Steam. This time, it's Killing Floor. The promotion will start up tomorrow, so now would be a good time to commence pre-loading the game while ... The original Big Daddy wants a place on your desktop 10 During PAX this past year, Eric Maruscak made this amazing Big Daddy chalk mural over by the big room where everyone had to line up to get into concerts and stuff. I almost completely missed the ... This Painkiller: Resurrection trailer is sorta hilarious 21 Oh, would you look at that classy fire backdrop. Painkiller: Resurrection is clearly a quality product, guys. *Cue hilariously over-the-top scream followed by absurd, screen-filling blood splatt... Modern Warfare 2's co-op 'broke the cinematic experience' 24 As you might recall, Infinity Ward decided to cut cooperative play from Modern Warfare 2's story mode and opted to create the Spec Ops mode to satisfy the need for friendly shoot-the-bad-dudes ac... Party with Claptrap at the Borderlands Extravasplosion 17 So, Borderlands is a pretty big deal. The fact that its release is soon (next Tuesday) is probably an even bigger deal. Gearbox Software is getting ready to celebrate, and if you happen to be a T... A Halo virgin does it for the first time 162 For a hardcore retro fan, Halo is the enemy.And not the oh-I-am-just-not-a-big-fan-of-that-game kind of enemy. No, retro fans think Halo actually is the devil and the main thing that is wrong wit... LOL WUT: Dreamkiller out now on Steam, still confuses me 21 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I saw what appears to be an acid/vomit-covered woman with long arms firing a gun, which seems way too heavy for her frame, at Medusa-looking creatures. Am I m... Dust 514 trailer is Haloriffic 33 Dust 514 is looking like a promising project. It's a first-person tactical shooter set in the EVE Online universe and it's also coming to home consoles. This is the HD debut trailer for the game ... Pre-purchase Painkiller: Resurrection, get free games 10 Painkiller: Resurrection? How embarrassing -- I forgot that game even existed. This may or may not have anything to do with the action-oriented first-person shooter getting about zero marketing. ... Crytek UK's new IP is an original FPS 29 I'm sure I wasn't alone in hoping that the cats at Crytek UK (you may know them as Free Radical) would be actively working on another TimeSplitters game by now. The series' unique sense of style ... Preview: Left 4 Dead 2's new Scavenge mode 24 As you found out late last night, Valve unveiled the new Scavenge mode for Left 4 Dead 2. It's a interesting new game mode aimed at players looking for a quick fix of zombie killing. In fact, a r... Ueda wants to make an FPS, loves Half-Life 2 23 If you've played either of Fumito Ueda's games, Ico or Shadow of the Colossus, and come away feeling nothing then you need to double check your pulse and then make sure you're still human. It's p... Battlefield 1943's price staying the same for PC 8 With EA DICE currently working on a slew of Battlefield games, including the ever-so-awesome-looking Bad Company 2, I can see why the studio wanted to hold off on pushing out Battlefield 1943 for... A Beirut battleground in Marines: Modern Urban Combat 17 When you think of a contemporary urban warfare videogame, almost every one is going to think of, well, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. That's an amazing game, setting the standard for contemporary ... Battlefield: Bad Company 2 trailer brings on the mayhem 25 I’m so used to the Battlefield: Bad Company trailers being full of speech and comedy that this latest trailer took me by complete surprise. In fact, I thought I was watching a trailer for C... UK event going to make Crysis happen in real life 19 Um, okay. So Crytek has teamed up with a UK event called Gamecity Squared where they’re going to make Crysis happen. In real life. An area in Nottingham, UK will be transformed into a &ldq... TGS 09: Battlefield: BC 2 shows off its multiplayer 25 If there's one thing that the Battlefield series is getting a solid rep for it is its multiplayer, especially after the phenomenal success of Battlefield: 1943 (once it started actually working).... TGS 09: Left 4 Dead 2 demo coming October 27 28 EA is holding a pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference right now where they’re going over their upcoming line-up. During their Left 4 Dead 2 presentation, EA and Valve revealed that a demo of... Elevator Action Death Parade in elevating action 11 Last year, Chad "I have a new favorite videogame every week" Concelmo told us about his new favorite videogame of the week. It was the relaunch of the Elevator Action series as a light ... Some fresh Halo 3: ODST images for your eyes to consume 48 Late last night, we brought you a review and a video review of Halo 3: ODST. It's one of year's most anticipated titles and it takes the Halo series in a slightly new direction with all of its ne... Review: Halo 3: ODST 125 The Halo series is one of gaming’s biggest franchises to date. From videogames, books, comics, toys, to clothes -- Halo was even almost turned into (and could very well still be) a Hollywoo... World at War PC patch 1.6 with more (free) maps out now 22 Another patch for the PC version of Call of Duty: World at War, another round of free maps. This time, it's the three maps from Map Pack 3: "Battery," "Breach," and "Revo... Nothing about these DreamKiller screens makes any sense 24 In DreamKiller, you play as a psychiatrist who can cure her patients by entering their minds. Other things worth mentioning are the fact that you do so by blowing sh*t up with ridiculously huge g... Halo 3: ODST has been finished since May 25 In the latest episode of Bonus Round over on GameTrailers, Brian Jarrard of Bungie revealed that Halo 3: ODST has been completed since May. It could have been released at any point now, but it&rs... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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