Not every FPS game needs to become your new lifestyle. These games get you in the action and don't overstay their welcome.

If another open-world game sounds like an exhausting proposal, these linear FPS campaigns are short, sweet, and immensely satisfying.

Echo Point Nova's Matt Larrabee talks movement shooters, making niche games, and '2007-core' game design.

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Not content with rendering Doom in PCB design software or playing it on an oscilloscope, engineer Mike Ayles has got the ...

Frame pacing measures the consistency of frame delivery in games, whereas FPS only counts the total frames per second. High FPS does not guarantee smooth gameplay if frames arrive unevenly, leading to ...

Arguably, the most important aspect in first-person shooter games, aside from gameplay, is the design of multiplayer maps. While many FPS titles do feature stellar world design in single-player or ...

At some point, fan retoolings of classic games are just whole new games in their own right. In 1996, Quake released with 32 levels and 6 deathmatch maps. Today, Quake Brutalist Jam 3 released with a ...

Get your first look at The Defiant, an upcoming story-driven, cinematic, single-player World War II-set first-person shooter ...

Based on David Szymanski's sci-fi submarine simulation, the YouTuber's debut film screams possibility.

Check out the reveal of Huntdown: Overtime, the upcoming over-the-top pixel-art roguelike prequel to Huntdown. This one's set ...