If you were looking for games that gave you glorious gung-ho action and plenty of weapons with which to deal out some old-fashioned justice, then 2018 was a great year for the shooter genre. From experiences that saw players take on well armed cults of personality to the far reaches of space, here’s a look at the best that the year had to offer for any action junkie who was looking for quality, fun and mayhem.

I’ve really dug back into Destiny 2 over the last few month thanks to Forsaken and its brilliant reworking of some fundamental systems, but I’ve always harboured a grudge against the game’s HDR implementation. You have an HDR compliant display and want to show off games in their best skin, which would look especially good in Destiny 2’s particle heavy, …

Despite some fears about what might happen after beta, Rockstar has confirmed that it has no plans to wipe player data when the transition eventually happens.

Thanks to 2016’s DOOM, there seems to be a resurgence as of late with games of this ilk. Project Warlock and Ion Maiden are two noteworthy and recent examples, but lo and behold! A new challenger has appeared, with another neat visual twist on the run ‘n gun formula. See for yourself, in this look at Prodeus.

Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula? Will you make the right choices about what to do, where to go and when to fight?

Battlefield V's Battle Royale mode is going to need a lot more time to cook up, as EA confirms it's only expected to launch in March 2019.

Battlefield V is retaining the vignette styled single-player that first featured in Battlefield 1, and its modes are looking far more varied this time around.

Bastion in the first of the burst Overwatch roster to get an interpretation in LEGO form, with many more promised in the near future.