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Activision gets dinged for using gen AI in Black Ops 6
Whether it's here to stay or a passing game development fad, generative AI is proving to be a highly controversial element in the field...
Marvel Rivals team outlines the process of adding new heroes to the game and shoots down rumors of ‘fake leaks’
Would you like to know the future roster of heroes being added to Marvel Rivals over the next five years? Cool, so would the...
Not So Massively: What we’d like to see from a StarCraft shooter
According to the rumour mill, Blizzard is currently working on a shooter game in the StarCraft universe - again. By my counting this would...
Ubisoft shooter XDefiant issues an immense final update ahead of its June 3 sunset
When multiplayer and MMO titles shut down, they can either go out with a bang, go out with a whimper, or in the case...
Helldivers 2 makes fans mad with pricing for its limited-time Killzone collab cash shop offerings
Don't look now, but Helldivers 2 has stepped in it with its playerbase again: A new offering added to the in-game cash shop today...
Game show shooter The Finals gets super-green in Patch 4.3
Forget orange and purple: Green is the color of the month when it comes to game show shooter The Finals and its Patch 4.3.
Currently,...
The Finals deep-dives Cashout mode changes as Season 4 gets underway
The middle of September saw the team vs. team FPS The Finals bring back Cashout mode for Season 3, albeit with a few adjustments...
Duckside is a new PvPvE survival shooter and not something I just made up I swear
Don't look at me like that. Duckside is a real game, not an MJ-inspired fever dream, and it's from tinyBuild, which is a real...
Ubisoft’s ‘XDefiant is not dying’ t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
If you had forgotten all about Ubisoft's newish shooter XDefiant, then you're not alone. It actually launched back in May and apparently did fine,...
Marvel Rivals reveals Cap and Winter Soldier, Wakanda map, and December launch date
NetEase really did bring its A-game to Gamescom this year with a ton of new games on deck - including its new team shooter...
Apex Legends Shockwave season adds unlimited revivals, dual-wielding, and a versus bots mode August 6
The next season for Apex Legends - you know, the battle royale shooter that wanted to double-charge players for battle passes until fans furiously...
‘Adaption shooter’ Ascendant is plotting an August open beta – with transmedia ambitions
What the heck is an "adaption shooter"? That was my first and really only question upon first hearing about Ascendant (fka Ascendant Infinity), PlayFusion's...
Anime hero shooter Second Wave and its developer shut down after a disastrous dev cycle
Over the course of last year, we had been reporting on Second Wave, an anime-styled hero shooter MOBA from developer Challengers Games that looked...
The Stream Team: A quick run through the Wayfinder Echoes update
Usually we're not in the business of highlighting single-player offline gaming here at OPTV, but for today's stream we're making an exception because Wayfinder...
The Stream Team: Fighting the foes of managed democracy in Helldivers 2
It's time yet again for MOP's Chris to slip on his helmet, grab his favorite weapons, and strap on his cape as he and...
Multiplayer survival shooter Vigor announces plans for a Steam early access launch in May
Do you remember Vigor? It's a multiplayer shooter from Bohemia Interactive set in a post-war 1991 Norway where players have to scrounge, survive, and......
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Evil v Evil, Blood Strike, Solium Infernum
Welcome back to another roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games that you've (probably) never heard of and we need to at least...
Helldivers 2 players share sightings of mysterious blue lasers, fueling speculation of a third enemy faction
The playerbase of Helldivers 2 is sharing some interesting and terrifying new reveals from the shooter's various battlefronts, and this time it's not just...
The Day Before studio claims to be the target of misinformation and a hate campaign
When Fntastic's survival shooter The Day Before officially shut down its servers, we had assumed it would be the last headline to come out...
Overwatch 2 considers adding party frames, tank and DPS passive self-heals, and spawn changes in Season 9
Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller is apparently looking to shake things up significantly in Season 9 if his latest dev blog is any indication,...
