The E3 2012 Trailer Park - every (well, almost every) PC game trailer inside
Whether they be drenched in wubwubs, besotted with Inception-esque brawngs, edited together by an ADHD lab-chimp or just grossly misrepresentative of the final product, everybody loves a good...
View ArticleWhy ShootMania is the smartest shooter of 2012
Mania is right. In the few hours I've been fiddling with the ShootMania: Storm alpha, the surprising lurch into the FPS genre by driving game developers Nadeo, I've developed a kind of need. It makes...
View ArticleShootmania Storm closed beta open for sign-ups
I'm already playingShootMania, Nadeo's surprising adjunct to their TrackMania series, and they've just announced that if you want to get involved you can sign up at their site. Weirdly for a 'Closed...
View ArticleShootmania Storm will be free to play on launch
ShootMania Storm, Nadeo’s community driven eSports FPS with buildable levels and all sorts of tournament features, is going to be (mostly) Free to Play, Ubisoft has announced. Essentially you get a...
View ArticleNadeo shows off Shootmania's intuitive map editor
I once delved into Hammer with all the well meaning innocence of the canary in the coal mine and came out more than a little ruffled. As powerful a map building tool as Valve's own level editor is,...
View ArticleShootMania Storm headed to Vegas for IPL 5, bringing a $100,000 prize pool
The IGN Pro League just announced that it will play host to a ShootMania Storm tournament at its IPL 5 event in Las Vegas at the end of November, where six teams of three will compete over a $100,000...
View ArticleShootMania Storm's biggest patch ever adds grappling hooks and sliding
Is it in its guns? Oh no that's just bullets. Is it in its maps? Oh no that's just vaguely neo-Aztec architecture, I think. (Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot) oh if you wanna know what makes the...
View ArticleIPL6 comes to Las Vegas' Cosmopolitan in March
I say ‘comes to’; really I mean ‘goes to’, out there in the desert. But while IPL may be far away from our UK bunker, the jarred heart of PCGamesN is marked ‘eSports’, and beats ever faster whenever...
View ArticleShootmania Storm beta impressions: I absolutely love it
I didn’t expect to love Shootmania Storm quite as much as I do. But, after playing the beta fairly extensively, I have news. This game is good. And as it’s freely available in open beta right now, you...
View ArticleNew ShootMania update to include Arrow weapon, bow apparently not included.
Official comms from the surface of ManiaPlanet indicate that ShootMania has received a new update containing the ‘Arrow’ weapon. After re-tuning our vox equipment and asking for a repeat of the...
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