Twenty years ago this week, a studio called id Software released a first-person shooter game featuring a space marine who must shoot his way through a demon-infested Mars base. The game was called ...

But First Person Lover isn’t just a shooter pastiche, it’s a clever and revealing mirror. ... a serious symbol — and the other is selling “feminine” salvation — frivolous, ...

First-person shooters aren’t all that made Apogee into what it became, but they certainly didn’t hurt, and the company in its rebranded form has gone back to that well again.

A type of video game in which players shoot a gun or rocket at an ever-changing scene of "bad guys." Introduced in 1993, DOOM popularized the first-person shooter game with its 3D graphics.

The first-person shooter is a broad and varied genre, not to mention saturated. From the fast and frenetic pace of old-school shooters such as DOOM , to the slower pace of Call of Duty , there's ...

The first-person shooter barely existed before the early '90s. It was an oddity in an industry dominated by platforming and role-playing games, and no one could have predicted just how much things ...

First-person shooter games have become more cinematic and aesthetically pleasing over the years and dominate the video game industry. Stephen Totilo, editor in chief of online video game ...

Last Friday, I heard that Activision and Terminal Reality would be making a first-person shooter out of the Walking Dead. Shortly afterward, I witnessed people (read: co-workers, folks I follow on ...

When first-person shooters like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were arriving in the early 1990s, guns may have acted as a metaphor to make it simpler to grasp a new concept — that gamers could dash ...