Introduction: The Battlefield franchise is one of the cornerstones of the decades-long rise of the first-person shooter genre. Since the early 2000s, this gaming series, along with titles like Call of Duty, has managed to establish competitive FPS games as one of the most popular online genres. Despite its success, Battlefield and its publisher, Electronic…
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The Halo Series is Considering Moving into Different Genres and Platforms
Introduction: In the entire Microsoft and Xbox gaming library, the Halo series is among the most famous titles, but also one of the most lucrative ones. Over the past two decades, it managed to expand outside of the video game space. It turned its military science fiction stories into TV shows, comics, collectible figurines, and…
007 First Light is Bringing James Bond back to the Gaming Audience
Introduction: The James Bond franchise is not just the most famous spy thriller series from the world of cinema. It is also a huge pop-culture phenomenon that has been going strong for more than 50 years. The franchise’s success in the video game industry, however, has been a rocky road that did not see a…
Valve could be working on Sequels to Half-Life and Team Fortress
Introduction: Since its inception, Valve has been a different kind of gaming company. Besides running the biggest online store for video games, the same corporation has been creating its own titles, which include some of the most famous releases in the previous three decades. Now, it seems that the same developers are building several sequels…
New Battle Royale Shooter is Coming from Ubisoft
Introduction: One of the biggest game development companies in the world, Ubisoft, is reportedly working on a game that will take them into the genre of battle royale shooters. The title, which is codenamed Scout, is inspired heavily by the popular battle royale release, Apex Legends. However, despite the numerous players in the multiplayer shooter…
Fight American Folklore in South of Midnight
South of Midnight is the newest title from Compulsion Games, the relatively quiet studio best known for their first-person action game, We Happy Few. Equally evocative in its art direction and atmosphere, South of Midnight tells a supernatural story set in the American Deep South, fueled by folklore and myth. After the game was announced…
Bungie is Betting Big on its Revival of the Marathon Franchise
Introduction: Game development studio Bungie decided to revive a decades-old Maratho franchise with an upcoming first-person shooter. The same game, called Marathon, is a science-fiction extraction shooter that is set in a strange, alien world. While the appeals of the game’s design show something that could be a worthy addition to the FPS multiplayer landscape,…
The Best Marvel Rivals Characters
Marvel Rivals launched in December of 2024, and since then, has generated significant hype and maintained a solid player base of roughly 250,000 players. Similar to hero shooters like Overwatch, this third-person team action game pits two teams of six players against each other in a variety of objective-based battles on various maps. As of…
Marvel Rivals Could Spell the End of Overwatch 2
Introduction: The gaming niche around the team shooters genre has been a challenging space for many developers. For the better part of two decades, the big names remained the leaders of this field, while all changes took years to materialize. Blizzard’s Overwatch franchise is a good example of a gaming series that took things slow…
Doom: The Dark Ages is Revamping the Legendary Shooter Formula
Introduction: The Doom series is one of the seminal franchises of the first-person shooter genre. Its latest addition, the upcoming Doom: The Dark Ages is attempting to thread a fine line of innovation and change into the well-known fabric of the series’s bloody carnage. That thread aims to revamp the game not just for the…