Author: [email protected] (Morgan Park)
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Modern Warfare 3’s rushed campaign isn’t going over well with fans who pre-ordered: ‘This is hands down the worst CoD campaign I’ve ever played’
The months leading up to Modern Warfare 3 have slowly shown us how this year’s Call of Duty isn’t quite like the others. Nowhere has this become clearer than in the Modern Warfare 3 campaign, which some players are calling one of the worst of the series, and not for the usual reasons a CoD…
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A wildly popular beta has skyrocketed The Finals into the top-wishlisted game on Steam, priming it to be the FPS to watch in 2024
The hottest game on Steam right now is an FPS that’s not technically out yet. Hundreds of thousands of people are trying out The Finals, a highly-destructible competitive shooter from ex-Battlefield devs currently in open beta. The beta is so popular, in fact, that The Finals has claimed the top spot on Steam’s top wishlisted…
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Call of Duty’s new stupid launcher is a data management nightmare, and it may get worse with Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty’s insatiable hunger for SSD real estate continues. According to official system requirements released by Activision today, all installs of Modern Warfare 3 will first require that you have another program installed: Call of Duty HQ. If you’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2 or Warzone the last few months, you’re already using Call…
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One of the most-played games on Steam right now is a highly-destructible FPS in open beta
In what’s proven to be a monster month for the multiplayer FPS, another challenger has entered the scene. The Finals, the highly destructible competitive FPS led by ex-DICE developers at Embark Studios, is running its first open beta, and the people are interested. In its first 24 hours, The Finals beta has shot to the…
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The Finals is a potentially incredible FPS stuck in the body of a sweaty esport
Inside of every FPS player are two beasts: the casual enjoyer of lightly competitive shooter romps, and the sweaty coordinator yelling callouts and going only for headshots. Lucky for both of those beasts, the genre is brimming with really good options for every type of shooter fan. I bounce around shooters depending on the mood,…
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Counter-Strike 2 is banning players for moving their mouse too fast
Just days after Valve started reversing bans for those who used AMD’s Anti-Lag+ feature in Counter-Strike 2, players have discovered a reproducible method for triggering a VAC ban on your account: moving your mouse very, very fast. As shared by YouTuber Water CS2 and others (and spotted by PCGamesN), several players have incurred the wrath…
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In case you’re wondering how weird Valorant has gotten, the newest agent creates a pocket dimension where enemies are forced to 1v1 you to the death
Valorant, a competitive FPS that I’ve often criticized for being too conservative with character abilities, is cooking up something weird for its next agent. Iso, Valorant’s eleventh post-launch agent, is a Chinese mercenary who “reconfigures ambient energy into bulletproof protection.” Pretty useful skills for the aggressive pointman of the team, but pedestrian compared to his…
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There’s cool stuff happening in every big FPS right now, and I can’t decide where to start
One fun side effect of every live-service FPS updating on similar seasonal schedules is that a few times a year they all decide to go big at the same time. The last big convergence of shooters happened in March, but October is poised to make March look like hot garbage. No matter what form of…
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Stay frosty: Call of Duty Warzone’s Halloween event has jump scares that will take you back to 2006 YouTube
As much as I enjoyed unloading magazines into Warzone’s rendition of King Kong that one time, Call of Duty’s limited-time events don’t usually pique my interest until October comes around. This year is no different—Warzone’s “The Haunting” event kicked off this week and there’s a ton going on. New boss fights are littered across the…
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The new worst gaming trend: killing our favorite games to replace them with sequels
There used to be a game called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. You might’ve heard of it—one of the most popular games of all time, played by hundreds of thousands of people every day for over 10 years, the reason every shooter has gun skins now. Anyways, Valve deleted it last month and replaced it with Counter-Strike…