Why Titanfall’s colossal minimalism is enormously tiring
In defense of salivation.
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Garden Warfare aims to be the shooter for you and your 80-year-old grandma
An inside look at an FPS looking to do something different.
This perspective-bending puzzler from Carnegie Mellon belittles the FPS
This was bound to happen. You can only shoot so many guys in the face before you get tired of it and start screwing around with the formula. What this tech demo called Museum of Technology proves is that the possibilities are huge. But also incredibly small. The game pokes holes in your sense of sca
The boundary between first-person shooters and graphic art is a BFG
In the latest Harper’s, Ben Lerner describes 20th century art as a wave of vandalism. If that’s the case, then the graphic designer Louisa Gagliardi stays the course with her series of monochromatic illustrations entitled FPS. She has tagged works of well-known graphic artists such as Ellsworth Kell
A quick walk down memory lane shows how far the look of shooters have come.
The shooter is now legal drinking age, and from the early years to the awkward teens and on to today, it has come a long way. To prove it, a YouTuber has posted this montage, The Graphic Evolution of First Person Shooters: 1992-2012. Whoa! I had totally forgotten how bad Unreal Tournament looks. It’
Believe it or not, there was once a spectacular Aliens game
Everyone is pretty much in universal agreement that Aliens: Colonial Marines, the fresh-off-the-presses shooter of the Ridley Scott ilk, is unapologetic schlock, and it is currently getting buffeted in reviews. Complaints about quality abound, and one reviewer claims to have completed a level withou