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Ghost Recon Future Soldier Trailer Shows Fighting Fair is Not an Option!

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Ubisoft just released a nice sneak-peak of the single-player campaign in their latest trailer. Showing off a lot of the cool gadgets and features that you will have to utilize in order to complete the various missions and objectives you have to complete successfully of course. “When you’re outnumbered, and the most advanced arsenal is at your disposal, fighting fair just isn’t an option.” – pretty much sums it all up. You will have the most advanced and proto-type technology to your availability while most of your enemies will have [...]

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The New FPS Genre – First Person Snooters

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At some point in the past 5 years, the FPS genre became home to some of the snootiest players around fueled by exponential growth in the cry-baby demographic. Some professionals point to an abundance of titles, but the question remains: how do you get back on track when you never lost your way? In defending a genre with so many great games, we reluctantly name names for fear of leaving out a worthy franchise. Battlefield, Call of Duty, Half Life, Doom, Quake, Arma, Gears of War, Halo etc. Separately they [...]

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GTA V Trailer Impressions

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As we’re sure many of you know, the GTA V premiere trailer just went live. So let’s take a closer look at what it showed us and what we can speculate based on the first 85 seconds of footage.

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Theatrical Battlefield 3 Launch Trailer Drops

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Earlier this afternoon EA pushed over our way the latest Battlefield 3 trailer in build up to the game’s final launch early next week. This launch trailer takes a more dramatic and cinematic storyline based approach as it delves into the game’s plot and premise of the single player campaign. Rather unimaginatively enough, of course it’s the same old story revolving around terrorism, Iran, and nuclear threats.

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Serious Sam 3 Release Trailer

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You shoot things and they die. Serious Sam has never been about headshots or involved team based mechanics. Hearkening back to the old school FPS genre, it’s about fast paced, arcade style fun. Based on this trailer, Serious Sam 3:BFE looks to be more of the same. And I’m really ok with that.

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Counter Strike 2: Global Offensive

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Now with .4 more pro. In august 1999, counter strike set the bar for competitive FPS gaming. CS quickly became the most played online PC action game, a considerable achievement for a simple mod. 12 years later, can CS:GO live up to its predecessor? Valve has made it clear through their other projects that they are a dominant force in PC gaming, especially in the team based FPS arena (Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Counter Strike). Currently CS:GO is in pre-beta, and has only been played by a small [...]

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Crytek is Working on New FPS Franchise

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According to the LinkedIn page of a gameplay programmer working at Crytek, they are working on a new First Person Shooter Franchise for for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The profile also claims that the work on a new third person shooter IP (Redemption) was canceled. Recently Crytek denied rumours that it has begun development on games for the next generation Xbox. Crytek told IGN: “Relating to the recent rumours, Crytek do not have any next generation hardware from Microsoft, nor do we know when Microsoft may announce future hardware [...]

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Tribes Ascend: New Free-to-Play Multiplayer trailer

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The classic cult multiplayer shooter Tribes is finally back and they’ve decided to enter the FREE gaming sphere with this latest installment. Naturally they’re going to try and make some money like all free-to-play and will do so by offering players the ability to purchase differing loadouts for their characters, to customize armour types, movement speeds, weapon choices, explosives, and pack types. Developer Hi-Rez are planning on releasing such new varieties of loadouts on a regular basis in order to attempt generate a revenue stream of some sort. So without [...]

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US Army goes with CryEngine 3 for Military Simulator

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The United Sates Army has decided to spend $57 million USD to enlist the help of Intelligent Decisions Inc. and Real Time Immersive Inc. utilizing the CryEngine 3 with the goal of developing the most realistic military simulator to date. The vast majority of the $57 million price tag for this technology will be going towards the actual equipment, which will feature the most advanced motion-tracking technology available today and a bunch of commercial off the shelf made in China/Taiwan hardware. You can view some of the technology preview videos [...]

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Battlefield 3 – Behind the Scenes Developer Interviews

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Yesterday EA uploaded a 17 min special behind-the-scenes episode of one of their in house funded online gaming shows called “PWNED_” (oooookay! don’t worry I had never heard of it before either!) which obviously is presented by a cute blonde girl (hey! we’re not complaining! we understand the marketing!). Anyways, this episode takes a look at the upcoming Battlefield 3 title being developed by DICE and due for release on PC and Console this fall 2011.

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ArmA 3 is Officially Announced for Summer 2012

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Just a few hours ago our long standing friends over at Bohemia Interactive Studios made an official announcement in regards to the upcoming third installment of the Armed Assault (ArmA) series they are actively developing on their Real Virtuality game engine. ArmA 3, following hot on the heels of ArmA 2 is expected to be released in the summer of 2012 and will interestingly enough be a title exclusively available for PC only.

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ArmA 2: The Reinforcements Have Arrived

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A brand new Armed Assault 2 trailer showing off the new Reinforcements DVD pack has just been released by BIS on their official Arma2 YouTube channel. In case you had not heard yet, the Reinforcements pack combines the 2 DLC’s British Armed Forces (BAF) and the Private Military Company (PMC) on a physical DVD. If that wasn’t enough, for those who don’t have one already, BIS has also included a full size map of the Takistan and Shapur terrains with the boxed DVD. To read more about the Reinforcement pack [...]

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