It's a bad few months for the games industry, and it isn't letting up. Electronic Arts, or EA, is laying off 5% of its workforce as an effort to focus more heavily on "owned IP, sports, and massive online communities". Due to this, the company has cancelled Respawn's upcoming new Star Wars first-person shooter. This

Within less than a week of its release on Steam, the free-to-play FPS game The Finals has gained immense popularity among players, reaching a remarkable milestone of over 200,000 concurrent players. This remarkable achievement has propelled the game into the ranks of Valve's top 10 most-played games on the Steam platfo

Another month, another new roguelite game announcement. The next in line is developer Metric Empire's Battle Shapers, and it's looking pretty colourful. Battle Shapers is in first-person, plays like an arena shooter, and has a roguelite structure. And it'll be in Early Access on Q3 2023 for PC (Steam). The Early Acc

During The Game Awards 2022, Judas was unveiled, a new single-player, narrative first-person shooter developed by Ghost Story Games, a studio led by Ken Levine, Creative Director of System Shock 2, BioShock, and BioShock Infinite. The game's description reads: A disintegrating starship. A desperate escape plan.

It's only a matter of time until team-based shooters like the Tom Clancy Rainbow Six games head to mobile. Ubisoft is all over it with its upcoming mobile iteration of Rainbow Six Rainbow Six Mobile will go into closed beta this Monday on 12 September. The following countries will be able to access closed beta:

Publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly are teaming up again to bring us an innovative game idea: a multiplayer first-person shooter set in a sci-fi universe. In all seriousness, the company that made Total War is jumping in the multiplayer shooter well with a game called HYENAS which will launch in 2023 and

Can't play bullet hell third-person shooter Returnal since it's tough to secure a PS5 these days? Here's the possible next best thing. Publisher Kwalee and developer Damage State has just announced a new "bullet hell" first person shooter title called Scathe. It's coming out in 2022 for PC and Xbox/PlayStation conso

What happens when you mix Doom Eternal with a rhythm game like Rhythm Heaven? You get a humble little shooter like BPM: Bullets Per Minute. Brought o you by Awe Interactive, this shooter is a "rhythm-action FPS roguelik" where you move, jump, and shoot your way through randomly-generated dungeons to the beat of an epi

Publisher Bonsai Collective has shown off new gameplay of its upcoming shooter Luna Abyss. Billed as a first-person bullet hell shooter, the trailer showcases key characters Aylin and Fawkes, prisoners of the Luna Abyss. "The never-before-seen clip casts light on both characters’ roles within the game’s lore, w

After coming and going for just a few weeks, first-person multiplayer shooter Concord can be considered a flop from publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Firewalk Studios, delisted from the online store. However, recent reports painted a grim picture of this project. Lots of people have speculated o

Netease has just unveiled FragPunk during the Xbox Games Showcase, introducing a five-versus-five hero shooter that aims to revolutionise the genre with an innovative card-based system. This multiplayer shooter promises flashy visuals, unique mechanics, and a dynamic battlefield, but it raises the question: are players

The new Id Software and Bethesda have seen success with the 2016 DOOM reboot and its follow-up DOOM Eternal. So it's no surprise we are going to see another sequel to the fast-paced first-person shooter. According to a Windows Central report, the next Doom is called DOOM: The Dark Ages and will be out for Xbox, PC,

Publisher tinyBuild and developer DogHowl Games have announced that they will be hosting a closed beta test for their first-person multiplayer sci-fi survival horror game titled Level Zero: Extraction. The game is an updated version of the original concept, Level Zero, unveiled in 2022. the original game was touted

Sharkmob has introduced Exoborne, an open-world extraction shooter set in a post-apocalyptic United States facing extreme weather conditions. Unveiled at The Game Awards 2023, Exoborne is in development for both PC and consoles, although no release date has been disclosed. Unlike free-to-play games, Exoborne is a pr

Hero shooters come and go, or even sputter before early access unless they're Overwatch (2016 version). Such is the case of Sega's upcoming title. In a recent Sega Sammy investor press release, the company has cancelled its upcoming multiplayer extraction shooter Hyenas as part of structural reforms around its Europ

Platform(s): PC, Xbox Series, PS5 Genre: First-person shooter with magic I'll have to give props to Ascendant Studios for their debut with Immortals of Aveum. While it was a commendable effort, it unfortunately didn't quite meet expectations. A magic-based first-person shooter sounds like a blast on paper, but they

Upcoming Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burrough scifi mashup genre shooter Nightingale will be out in early access next year. Nightingale will be playable on PC (Steam and Epic Games) on 24 February 2024. The game features shooting, crafting, building, and open world aspects, with solo and co-op options. Here's the tra

I do yearn for the days when Titanfall 2 had a better single-player campaign that's more memorable than its multiplayer mode. In fact, the late 2000s era of single-player shooters was not short of spiffy ideas even if they're all cribbing from either the first-person Call of Duty mould or even the Gears of War third-pe

Team17 and Trepang Studios have announced that the upcoming grisly first-person shooter Trepang2 will be arriving on PC on 21 June 2023. A spiritual successor and blood-drenched love letter to the fast-paced and over-the-top FPS games of the mid-2000s, Trepang2 features high-octane, first-person gun-fu gunplay and p

Project MBR is the latest project coming from the Japanese studio, SIEG Games and they just kicked off their Kickstarter campaign, and they're aiming to get JP¥25 million (which is about US$184,293) to fund their multiplayer mech action shooter. If you're into robots and shooting games, this one's for you as Projec