The new season of Apex Legends launched last week, and with it came the surprise addition of the "Broken Ghost" quest, a new solo or cooperative multiplayer experience meant to flesh out the back story for its league of mass-murdering gladi...

Doom developer id Software hasn't had a business-as-usual kind of week. After integrating Denuvo anti-cheat into Doom Eternal last Thursday, the game was review bombed by fans who were unhappy with this mandatory post-launch inclu...

[Update: In a recent email to Kotaku, Devolver Digital has stated that Serious Sam 4 has timed Stadia exclusivity and will not be appearing on any other console until 2021.]Serious Sam 4 has been baking in Croteam's oven for quite some...

According to various reports online, this year's entry into Activision's billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise will be "Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War," a soft reboot of the time-traveling Black Ops sub-series.The first appearance of the ...

Ubisoft has released full details pertaining to the next season of first-person-shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Operation Steel Wave is the second season of Year Five, bringing new content and balance tweaks to the multiplayer title. The season ...

[Update: I reached out to Denuvo, and a representative confirmed an update is in the works to allow the game "to be launched for singleplayer offline play without requiring installation of Denuvo Anti-Cheat." They were unable to provide a t...

More details are slowly being unearthed regarding Operation Steel Wave, the next season of Ubisoft's intense multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege. A recent video surfaced online giving us a glimpse at Ace and Melusi, the two new operators ...

Although my first foray into first-person shooters was Catacomb 3-D, Doom and Duke Nukem's stages are forever burned in my brain. That's partly why I sought out crazy fanmade mods (WADs) by any means necessary, including picking up some cra...

Ubisoft has teased the coming of the next season in its excellent multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege. As noted on the game's Twitter account, Operation: Steel Wave will be the second season of year five, bringing new operators, maps, and...

One of the most memorable Xbox Series X games shown this week was Second Extinction, a mutant-dino-blasting co-op shooter that some of us briefly mistook for Turok during the Inside Xbox showcase. The streaming event struggled to meet fans'...

Apex Legends is finishing up its Season 4 this week, with Season 5 launching on May 12, and we have some details now on what sounds like it could be the biggest seasonal addition the game has seen since it launched last year. There's the us...

Xbox kicked off this morning's Inside Xbox presentation with fresh new footage from cyberpunk shooter Bright Memory: Infinite, FYQD-Studios' exciting first-person shooter.Still rocking its slick Battle Angel: Alita vibe, Bright Memory: Infi...

The trailers keep coming! In a rapid-fire fashion in what is their biggest Inside Xbox to date, Microsoft announced Second Extinction: a dinosaur murder game. System Reaction, an "Avalanche Studios Group," is handling development duties, an...

The latest limited-time event in Ubisoft's multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege is very, very different to events past. Now live on all platforms, The Grand Larceny replaces Siege's typical hostage-rescuin', bomb-defusin' action with a sce...

It's fair to say that Activision's battle royale extravaganza Call of Duty: Warzone has been a huge hit, having attracted well over 50 million players during its initial honeymoon period. Developer Infinity Ward is just getting started, how...

Battlefield V has plans for "one more standalone update" likely coming in June 2020, and then that's presumably it. The end of a meandering, disappointing era. While we don't know the focus of the next content expansion, it's clear that DIC...

One of the many great features in Activision's Call of Duty: Warzone is its crossplay functionality that allows both PC and console players to lock horns in the popular battle royale title. Unfortunately, an inevitable part of PC shooter cu...

Flight School Studios has announced that Chex Quest HD - a remake of the 1996 "non-violent-first-person-shooter" Chex Quest - will launch on PC via Steam this summer. In keeping with its novelty theme, Chex Quest HD will be a free-to-play t...

I didn't get around to Void Bastards, a first-person roguelike with BioShock and System Shock 2 roots, but that could change soon – it's coming to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on May 7, 2020. That's just where I play most of my g...

Purveyor of hard media Limited Run Games has announced plans to release physical editions of two classic Star Wars adventures. 2002's Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and its 2003 sequel Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy will be ava...

Last week saw the launch of season three in Activision's military shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Along with several weapons, maps and other content, the new download added "Quads" mode to sister title Warzone, bringing four-person sq...

It's still really distressing... It's been over 10 years, and it's still one of the most disturbing moments in the annals of video games. Despite the tell-tale "gaming" reminders (a quick glance around reveals a very repetitive use of chara...

It's been six years since PlayStation took to the stage at E3 2014 and debuted an (excellent) teaser trailer for zombie-smasher Dead Island 2. Since then, the sequel to Techland's clunky 2011 open-world shooter has been mired in development...

2K Games has released a new mini-game within its looter-shooter Borderlands 3. Borderlands Science is a neon-infused tile-puzzler which, just by player interaction, helps decode the mysteries of human biomes, helping to save hundreds of tho...

[Update: Activision has released a new trailer and "roadmap" detailing season three of Modern Warfare and its battle royale side-title, Warzone. Tomorrow will see the return of Alex to the battlefield, a Quads mode for Warzone, and new weap...