The shooter aspect of Mass Effect was lacking a little and was perhaps too rooted in RPG mechanics. Fortunately for us BioWare is making sure to make the shooter part more shooter-like and keeping the RPG elements very RPG-like. “The advantages of starting with all the technology is we can focus on...

What do you get when two developers are creating games based on the same intellectual property? Why, a healthy rivalry, of course. Development house Rebellion is currently working on Aliens vs. Predator, while Gearbox is currently developing Aliens: Colonial Marines. Rebellion senior producer David...

There’s a big pile of Xbox exclusive games that were really fantastic that nobody played. Games like Breakdown, Phantom Dust, the Otogi games, and anything made by Smilebit are all great, but the one that always gets brought up the most when talking about criminally overlooked Xbox games is Oddworld:...

A word of advice to our fellow gamers of the French persuasion – even if you managed to procure your early copy of Halo 3: ODST by legitimate means, as in not off the back of a slow moving van, might we suggest firing it up on a friend’s system juuuuust in case Microsoft-branded special forces...

In a few hours, Paul Wedgwood, the CEO of Splash Damage and Game Director on Brink, will be taking the Main Stage at QuakeC0n 2009 to deliver the first public demonstration of the game. With that happening, we thought now was a good time to release our first dev diary for Brink. Take it away Paul…. Back...

Here’s an eye-opener for you. The people behind the forthcoming Xbox Live remakes of Alien Breed have revealed that development costs for the trilogy of titles weigh in at a cool $2.5 million. Speaking at this year’s Develop Conference, Team 17 Studio’s director Martyn Brown said that the project...

Believe it or not but Gearbox’s Alien-based shooter, Aliens: Colonial Marines, is not only still in development but is also likely to hit store shelves next year. With Rebellion’s Aliens vs Predator title stealing most of the limelight and little to no information on Gearbox’s title, many assumed...

Madballs in Babo: Invasion, the soon to be XBLA shooter from development studio Playbrains, promises to bring gamers rich gameplay and feature laden “casually hardcore” action shooting. For those of you who were around in the ’80s (such as myself), you’ll remember the Madballs characters from...

This means something different in the UK. Microsoft surprised fans of zombie survival horror co-op shooter, Left 4 Dead, by showing off a trailer for a sequel. I squealed with delight and felt myself become faint as I witnessed this video clip. Set for release on November 17, the title adds melee combat...