My lack of familiarity with the Metro franchise is painfully evident to everyone in the room less than 10 seconds after I’m handed the controller. As my comrades on the Aurora, the massive train jettisoning Artyom, Anna, and the rest ...

Part of the whole appeal of the battle royale genre is the sanctity of life. Dropped into a map with a mass of other players, all of whom are in the same carnage-filled boat, one must truly preserve that instinct for survival. You have your...

Activision has announced that players can experience Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode free of charge for one week. Blackout is, of course, CoD's take on the battle royale phenomenon that all the hip kids are into right now.The tria...

The next phase in Battlefield V's post-launch roadmap, Lightning Strikes, marks the return of the explosive attack-and-defend Rush mode. We're also getting another Grand Operation and Squad Conquest, a "tighter and more intense version of C...

The indie FPS throwback DUSK has been doing pretty well for itself. New Blood Interactive producer Dave Oshry took to Twitter to announce that the hit game has sold exactly 69,420 copies since launch. While that doesn't seem like a massive ...

In a heartfelt post to the Steam community, developer Dave Oshry celebrated the three year anniversary of his '90s-style FPS, DUSK. In the post, Oshry thanks the fans and his team for their love and support, then announces some new features...

Players logging into Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege over the Holiday period will bag themselves a special "Holiday Pack" (Siege's variant on in-game loot boxes) containing a free Operator that is yet to join your roster of hea...

Ok, so they're hardly the kindest of Holiday gifts, but developer DICE is offering up two free weapons to all players who log into Battlefield V at any point over the next fortnight.The two death-bringers up for grabs are the Ribeyrolles 19...

Fallout 76 is a comedy of errors, but one thing that seemed to be getting corrected was the snafu with the duffle bag included in the collector's edition. After advertising it as a canvas bag, buyers were greeted with an incredibly cheap ny...

It's hard to believe it's been a little over a year since we've last heard about Witchfire. Coming from developer The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter), the game looks to be adapting some of the graphical techniques used in that ga...

If you were thinking of picking up either Battlefield V or Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 during Black Friday and Cyber Monday but slept through the whole ordeal because sleep is so much better - you're in luck. Both flagship titles are now at t...

It has been an excruciating year for me. When I took a look at DUSK in early-access back in January, I was in love. The game was everything I had wanted from a first-person shooter since the '90s passed. No regenerating health, no hit-scann...

After five years of early-access, DayZ is finally available as a full game. The title that kicked off the survival craze, DayZ could also be seen as the progenitor of the recent "battle royale" fad that has swept over the industry. Basicall...

This is a giveaway, folks -- no fancy work required! Take a beta key for multiplayer game Aftercharge. Hey, you! Yeah, you. I've got a bunch of keys for a closed beta with your name all over them! Well, your name is just on one of them. The...

Battle Royale is still a massive craze, so it only makes sense that the largest shooter around would jump in. Daybreak Games has announced that PlanetSide Arena will take the popular MMOFPS into the battle royale sub-genre next month. While...

Bundle up! We're heading across a snow-bound land full of irradiated monsters and limited supplies with which to fend them off. Metro Exodus will hit PC, PS4, and Xbox One a week earlier than expected. "We had previously delayed the release...

I still remember when the Doom phenomenon first hit. It's funny to think today how something that looks so dated and old-school to younglings today was so influential in defining what remains one of the biggest money-making genres of video ...

I was too busy playing the incredible DUSK and Smash Bros. Ultimate this weekend to notice the news, but Atari and Nightdive Studios will be bringing a remastered version of '90s classic Blood to digital storefronts. Not much is known about...

Bethesda's upcoming Rage 2 looks to not be launching on Steam. Similar to Fallout 76, the game will first hit Bethesda's own launcher service before making its way to Valve's digital marketplace (if it even does come). Other digital retaile...

Legendary designer John Romero has unveiled his latest project and it harkens back to the past. SIGIL will be the unofficial fifth episode for the original Doom and will be released for free early next year. If you're a mega-fan of Romero's...

On my last day of PAX East this year, I took a look at a retro-inspired FPS called Project Warlock. Developed by Buckshot Software, the game is the vision of 19-year-old Jakub Cislo and his desire to recreate the games of his youth. With hi...

Are you looking to get into the battle royale craze for slightly cheaper? Activision Blizzard has got your back, as long as you're a PC player. Available on Battle.net, a $40 "Battle Edition" of the game will get you up and running in tradi...

A heck of a lot of people are about to load up Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Not only has the enduring competitive shooter gone fully free-to-play on Steam, but Valve has added its own take on battle royale. The new mode, Danger Zone, i...

After the insane snafu with Fallout 76's collector's edition not having the correct bag, Bethesda was finally set to make everything right to its customers. To get a replacement bag, one just needed to head to the Bethesda support website a...

Quake Champions has come a long way since its early-access release last year. I was down on it from my initial impressions, but I've grown to accept how it plays and how fun it can be. In an odd move, though, there hasn't been any kind of c...