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Violence Decreases With Violent Game Releases

While hardly scientific and more of an observation, GamePolitics has an interesting look on how violent crime has dropped drastically with the release of heavily criticized titles. While only a few games are mentioned, think of Halo (2001) or Counter-Strike (2003) and place them on the chart. A number of outside factors considered (crimes not [...]

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PC Gaming is Dead. Long Live PC Gaming.

The FPS has always been seen as the poster child of PC gaming. Innovative titles that pushed game design and game hardware to their limits established the first-person shooter as the go-to genre for the hardcore PC gamer. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom established the rules of the genre; Duke Nukem 3D pushed them [...]

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Empires Mod For Half-Life 2 Now Available

Even though it’s still early, Empires 2.0 is one of the best Half-Life 2 mods available. It just entered beta a few days ago and has already built an active community of players. The mod plays like a combination of the best elements of a Battlefield game and Command & Conquer: Renegade. [...]

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Haze Clears In 2007, Forecast Shows Return In 2008

Ubisoft has delayed the release of pretentious first-person shooter Haze from early December to the first quarter of 2008, according to Gamasutra. The timed PS3 exclusive, Free Radical-developed shooter should be worth the wait, however, because it’s, like, totally a work of art, man. All joking aside, Haze hasn’t failed to impress with its gorgeous [...]

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All Good Things Come in Three?

Well, this definitely isn’t always true. However, 2007 is the year of the shooter games. Every gamer anticipated the release of Halo 3 for months, if not longer, but the excitement do not end there. One could criticize the product release tactics of the Epic Games, but where they lack in the strategy of marketing, [...]

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Halo 3 Updates

You won’t be prompted for any update, but Bungie has added much needed features to the insanely popular, ”$300 million in Bill Gates pockets” FPS Halo 3. Thankfully, the annoyance of the constantly appearing “Shotty/Snipers” in ranked play has been toned down and in an obvious move from there, it will no longer appear after [...]

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