One of the biggest video game flops of the 2010s was Aliens: Colonial Marines, released by Sega. An embarrassing, shallow and buggy mess, it might have forever tainted the brand if Alien: Isolation hadn’t come to the rescue and produced a true classic. That, however, was survival horror, not a co-op shooter. Now, developer Cold […]
Back in 2013 a game called Smatter: Honour Runs was released for the XBox 360. Until now it was exclusive to that console — and impossible to play otherwise. The developers behind the game, noeyehandGames in London, are about to remedy that problem…a Steam version, with the shortened title of Honour Runs, is about to […]
You have twin-stick shooters, and you have roguelikes….so what would happen if some madman combined the two? You’d get Revita, freshly announced for a PC release later this year. You play as….someone. You have no idea who you are, and since you appear to be about seven years old this could be a problem for […]
Over and over, the Crimzon Clover series of shmups has been entertaining its fans for years. Now the new entry is about to arrive in the form of Crimzon Clover – World EXplosion for Nintendo Switch. It’s a worldwide launch, hitting Japanese, North American and PAL markets at the same time. If you’re new to […]
Developer Augmented Irreality presents DreadStar: a fast-paced top-down 2D space shooter that aims to not only remind players of the genre’s 16-bit glory days, but improve upon it. The dev team promises to avoid the “bullet hell” scenarios that so many other titles in this genre wallow in. The game contains RPG elements that will […]
Mega Cat Studios claims they’ve now created the world’s first “run and gun and eat.” It’s Bite The Bullet, the arcade shooter where satisfying your appetite is the key to victory. If you’re shooting big monsters, why let them go to waste? Eat ’em and be nourished in more ways than one. Since you are […]
Last November, Raw Fury announced that their open beta for their upcoming ‘West of Dead’ would be available for February 14, 2020. Thankfully the game’s open beta launched Friday as planned, and players can now partake in the event. However, the open beta is currently available on the Xbox One and on PC through Steam. […]
I’ve been informed by Triangle Studios, the makers of the game we’re about to talk about, that its title is intended to be reproduced with almost no capitalization, just like k.d. lang’s name. So now, we introduce you to It came from space and ate our brains remastered. Triangle first published a game called It […]
When you hear the words “Goat of Duty,” what comes to mind? A parody of popular first-person shooters where instead of playing as a soldier of war you’re a goat with a giant gun strapped to your back? …You are correct; that is exactly what it is. But it’s not finished yet. Goat of Duty […]
Mobile game developer OnFace is targeting their upcoming first-person shooter Red Dot for a 2020 release in the US. The game is for mobile devices, and is currently soft-launching in Singapore. Put simply, if you just want a game where you walk around with a gun and have to shoot other players before they shoot […]
Of all the games Microsoft showed off during their Inside XBox Presentation in London this week, Raw Fury’s West Of Dead was one of the most interesting-looking. This twin-stick shooter uses a scratchy rendering style that reminds us of a Hellboy comic….or maybe that’s the fact that Ron Perlman is providing the voice of the […]
Enjoy run and gun shooter games? Then you should be into Star Titan, a new action shoot-em-up launching today on mobile devices. The game takes place in a future where humanity has colonized most of the galaxy, and all races live in peace…until an evil military organization called the Terran Conglomerate, who believe humans should […]