Thursday night Blue Omega showed off their vertically bent steampunk shooter, Damnation, to the press at Bourbon and Branch in San Francisco. After loitering a bit in a pseudo-secret side room (the venue is prohibition-era themed) we settled in to the Xbox 360 system-link set-up in a semi-adjoining back room, where the fuse promptly blew… Read more…

In our last E3 podcast, we talked about how shooting in and out of cover is definitely in this year. But what about fighter pilots from the 1930s that get sucked into an alternate universe through the Bermuda Triangle, where human survivors are fighting evil alien robots in a world with no ground to stand on? That sounds at least a bit original, doesn’t it? Strap on your jetpacks, and we’ll dive into the world of Dark Void. Read more…

The latest issue of Xbox World 360 claims that one of their employees somehow gained access to information they believe confirms the existence of an Infinity Ward Sci-Fi game while attending a recent Call of Duty 4 event. However, the magazine does not go as far as to claim the game will have anything to do with the popular Call of Duty franchise. Read more…

SNK Playmore announced today that Metal Slug 7 will be released for the Nintendo DS this fall. Continuing its 2D, arcade-shooting roots, MS7 will contain seven brand new missions, six playable characters, and a heap of new weapons. Read more…

Straying a bit from traditional shooters, in this colorful game you command a series of flying sorcerers destined to take down evil ships, demons, rival sorcerers, and immovable objects. I stress immovable because unlucky first-timers will perish attempting to destroy them. Trust me, you won’t find much in the world of shooters more demeaning than dodging intense fire brigades and a flood of ships only to crash and burn due to a mighty wall. Read more…

In a recent showing of their popular PC and Xbox 360 zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead, Valve’s Marketing VP Doug Lombardi let the world know that they weren’t developing a PS3 version of the game. However, he did leave hope that the game could be ported to the PS3.  Read more…

Recently I got my hands on Jason Bourne… yum! Oh wait, I mean… well, you’ll get to try yourself when the demo hits the Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Store next month. In the meantime, we’ll give you some insight into what it’s like handling a super assassin in The Bourne Conspiracy. Read more…

Apropos of its title, Army of Two is a tale of two games. One is a fantastic looking, conceptually cool cooperative shooter that seems primed to pick up the slack of the dearth of quality co-op games in the wake of Gears of War. Its counterpart, on the other hand, is a depressingly repetitive, aggressively stupid, and extremely short game that wastes a ton of great potential. Read more…

A new game in the DonPachi series is headed for Japan.

The Amusement Machine Operators’ Union show in Japan is generally a fairly low-key event here in the West. This year was host to the first playable appearance of Street Fighter 4. You’ve heard about that, but what did you miss? Read more…

Maybe I’m spoiled. Maybe my expectations are too high. Whatever the reason, the most positive thing I can say about Conflict: Denied Ops is that I was not physically injured by how horrible it was. Read more…