First-person shooters, ain’t going nowhere! But which one is the best? When you take a game or a franchise and boil it down to its essence, which one stands tall over the countless others?

There's an odd stigma attached to First Person Shooters, and a sort of derision given to its players. Is it justified?

Mass Effect 3 is a genre-defining 3rd person shooter RPG hybrid - but it could have become an FPS.

FPS games are, like it or not, a driving force in the video game industry. since their popularity boomed with the advent of 3D accelerated gaming, they’ve been a mainstay. Though many *like myself) are pretty bored with the genre, there’s no denying its importance. The first person shooter, more than any other genre, has given video gaming a mass-market …

Call of Duty : Black Ops was released this week – and it’s done exceptionally well, eclipsing the previous Call of Duty to become the highest grossing entertainment launch ever. It’s actually pretty damned good, but let’s face it though – it’s not very original, is it? Yet another first person shooter and the 7th in the series – but …

As gamers, primarily of the console variety, we’ve become accustomed to the idea of Auto-Aim; a system of assists that counter the relative imprecision of twin-stick analogue controllers that make it much easier to shoot people in the face before tea-bagging their lifeless avatars. Now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and super-tech company Lockheed and Martin are developing …