Tag: fps

Competitive shooters are at a crucial crossroads in 2025: ‘sweaty’ teamplay vs

Competitive shooters are at…

Gaze at the mountain of multiplayer shooters and tremble. I’ve long maintained that we’re in a multiplayer golden age—there…
Halo needed to change, but Activision faces a huge challenge to fix it

Halo needed to change,…

Microsoft has given up on Halo Studios, the team it formed and recently renamed for the express purpose of…
‘We’re extending the 6v6 playtest’: The game director of Overwatch 2 stokes the flames that 6v6 will make an official comeback someday

‘We’re extending the 6v6…

The 6v6 vs 5v5 debate has been going on in Overwatch 2’s community ever since the FPS changed format…
Call of Duty’s $28 Squid Game skins are the perfect crossover for our capitalist dystopia, and Activision knows exactly what it’s doing

Call of Duty’s $28…

It wasn’t long after the first series of Squid Game aired that we started to see its unsubtle anti-capitalist…
As Halo goes to Activision, fans are worried about this year’s Halo Fest and a potential lore reboot from the Call of Duty publisher

As Halo goes to…

We’re now living in a timeline that would have been impossible to comprehend for a grunt-squashing teen in 2007:…
2025 will be a make-or-break year for triple-A video games as we know them

2025 will be a…

Cast your eyes across the 2025 video game release schedule and you might notice a bit of a trend.…
Valve offers CS2 players eggs

Valve offers CS2 players…

CS2 players begging for an anticheat overhaul. Valve: (Image credit: FX Productions) Source
Valve shadow dropped chicken pets into CS2

Valve shadow dropped chicken…

You’d think the most exciting thing to happen in Counter-Strike 2 today would be its new Rush Hour update,…
Former Halo leaders lament effective closure of Halo Studios, as one employee finds themselves promoted and fired in same week

Former Halo leaders lament…

Former Halo leaders Bonnie Ross and Kiki Wolfkill have added their voices to the chorus of people wishing laid-off…
It’s hard to fault Highguard for giving the internet the silent treatment—wouldn’t you?

It’s hard to fault…

Few actually expected last year’s Game Awards to close with anything as earth-shattering as Half-Life 3, but if that…