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Tag: fps

Activision’s researchers reckon skill-based matchmaking is better for everyone

Activision’s researchers reckon skill-based…

Activision has published a 25-page white paper exploring the impact of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) on its multiplayer lobbies, determining…
Netflix’s BioShock adaptation will be a “more personal” film “as opposed to a grander, big project”

Netflix’s BioShock adaptation will…

Netflix‘s BioShock adaptation has been “reconfigured” to be a “more personal” film with a tighter budget. That’s according to…
Blizzard is finally doing it: Overwatch 2 will try 6v6 again, reversing the single biggest change of the sequel

Blizzard is finally doing…

One of the most contentious changes in Overwatch 2 was its shift to a 5v5 format. The loss of…
Ready or Not’s new expansion takes the tense shooter action to new heights, but the politics hit rock bottom

Ready or Not’s new…

Ready or Not’s Home Invasion DLC feels like the expansion packs of old. There’s a wedge of new missions,…
Sony’s next live-service sci-fi shooter Concord won’t have a battle pass

Sony’s next live-service sci-fi…

Concord, the upcoming 5v5 hero shooter from Sony’s Firewalk Studios, is bucking the battle pass trend, with its developer…
This new co-op horde shooter on Steam is so bad it made me feel physically ill

This new co-op horde…

A prolonged session with EvilVEvil left Associate Editor Ted Litchfield and I bleary-eyed, cotton-mouthed, heads both pounding. Whatever you…
Overwatch 2’s new space girl healer takes the throne as one of the most strategically satisfying heroes in the game

Overwatch 2’s new space…

Not since Kiriko has a new Overwatch heroes single-handedly tanked the queue times in Quick Play. I only managed…
I don’t play Counter-Strike 2, but I do follow this CS2 player dedicated to finding weird mistakes and ‘bomb stuck’ spots on Valve’s maps

I don’t play Counter-Strike…

I have zero interest in playing Counter-Strike 2, and yet I’m glued to the screen whenever a poster by…
Somehow, the 11-year-old niche mil-sim Arma 3 managed to sell nearly 700,000 copies during the Steam Summer Sale

Somehow, the 11-year-old niche…

A very strange thing happened during the recently-concluded 2024 Steam Summer Sale: Almost 700,000 copies of Bohemia Interactive's military…
The Immortal Lock is a gnarly new Quake map that’s meatier than some entire FPS campaigns—literally and figuratively

The Immortal Lock is…

Exploring eldritch hell-dungeons is par for the course in Quake, but this is the first time the dungeon itself…