2018-05-21 16:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
The best shooters endure. While the state of the art moves on in other genres and leaves old designs in the dust, it’s as fun to fire a well-made shotgun from an early 90s FPS as from one released today. For that reason, this list runs the gamut from genre classics to those released in the last year. There’s bound to be something for you inside. (more…)
2014-03-03 18:22 UTC · Announcement · Valve
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2014-02-10 21:40 UTC · Announcement · Valve
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2012-11-09 00:26 UTC · PC Gamer
If a sound epitomized Rebellion's 1999 FPS classic Aliens vs. Predator, it's the terror-inducing ping of a motion tracker. Eyeballing your demise creeping closer upon a sensor screen occurred most often during the Marine campaign, and the same weighty pressure of panic from being hunted by something quite evolved into efficiently snuffing out life appears in Aliens vs. Marines, a recreation of AVP's Marine missions glittering with acid-droplet-like beauty on CryEngine 3. Author oldschool.Dave's efforts so far look astounding: explosions deform around objects, injuries don't magically heal th
2012-10-27 16:00 UTC · PC Gamer
Welcome! I am your (g)host, Craig FEARSOME, beckoning you in to this eldritch gathering of... LOOK BEHIND YOU! Yes, there is NOTHING there. The very absence of fear is perhaps the greatest fear of all. No? But I used Caps Lock and italics! WhAt aBOut NOwWow? Fine, you are unafraid of typography. How about a list of the scariBOOest PC games? Hah. I saw you flinch! Now you are atmospherically prepared, ensure there are neither babies nor pets between yourself and the nearest toilet, lest your bowels react unfavourably to this mildly cursed list of possibly evil games, aka The five Scariest PC
2012-10-15 17:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
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2012-06-26 17:05 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 80% off Aliens vs. Predator! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
2011-09-22 18:30 UTC · Announcement · Valve
The SEGA Publisher Weekend has begun! Now through Sunday take advantage of great deals on SEGA titles or save huge on the SEGA Collector Pack! Other great deals include: Alpha Protocol at 90% off Aliens vs. Predator™ series at 75% off Total War: SHOGUN 2 at 50% off The Dreamcast Collection at 75% off Total War Mega Pack at 66% off All discount offers end September 27th at 10AM Pacific Time.
2011-04-05 18:35 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Save 75% on Aliens vs. Predator in this week's Midweek Madness! Bringing the legendary war between two of science-fiction's most popular characters to FPS fans. Experience distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay as you survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps surrounding the damned colony of Freya's Prospect. Offer ends this Thursday at 4pm PST.
2010-10-28 17:34 UTC · Announcement · Valve
The Steam Halloween Sale is on now. Save 50-75% off select spooky titles now through November 1st. Plenty of zombies, ghosts and horror to keep you busy all weekend.
2010-07-15 21:15 UTC · Shacknews · Brian Leahy
SEGA has officially cut support for Rebellion's Aliens vs. Predator on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with no patches or updates planned for release, according to a forum post (via AVP.net) by SEGA assistant community manager "Clumsyorchid". Clumsyorchid explains that "patches for the console versions of AVP... have sadly been scrapped," though there is no new information on "PC patches and would not assume there will be any changes unless stated otherwise." Seven updates have been published for the PC version through Steam, including a day-one patch. Within the patches are numerous balance
2010-07-08 18:43 UTC · Product Update · Valve
Updates to Aliens vs Predator have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. New Features * Predator Focus Attack now knocks you down between 9-12m; * Alien Focus Attack damage has been returned to it’s correct values ;* The chance to spawn on occupied/blocked friendly spawn points and consequentially knock players out of world is reduced; * Joining a Dedicated server which is running on non-standard ports, leaving and then hosting a player match, will now no longer cause any clients who join the hosted match to lose connection upon star
2010-06-30 17:50 UTC · Shacknews · Alice O'Connor
Aliens vs. Predator will pick up four all-new battlegrounds this July in a second paid downloadable content map pack, publisher Sega has announced, titled 'Bughunt.' Due out on July 7 at $6.99 (560 Microsoft Points) for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the Bughunt pack contains two new maps for AvP's standard multiplayer modes then another two for the 'Survival' mode. Sega boasts that "for the first time, these maps will include environmental hazards and new weather effects." If you don't own AvP but you do have a DirectX 11 graphics card and fancy seeing a swarming horde of xenomorphs, check
2010-06-30 09:20 UTC · Kotaku
Aliens Vs. Predator fans who weathered the storm of mediocre review scores are being rewarded with a second helping of downloadable multiplayer maps next month in the Bughunt Map Pack, complete with environmental hazards and weather effects. The Bughunt Map Pack, available on July 7, consists of four new multiplayer maps: Crash Site and Furious for the game's six different competitive online modes, and Tempest and Monument for AvP's co-op Survival mode. The four new maps all come complete with environmental hazards and weather effects, both new features added to the game with this pack. Look f
2010-06-28 21:01 UTC · Product Update · Valve
Updates to Aliens vs Predator have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. New Features * Enabled XP gain, leaderboard updates and associated achievements and skin unlocks for non-ranked games as well as Ranked Matches. Now the differences between ranked and unranked games is that in Ranked Matches, skill-based matchmaking, team balancing and other Ranked Match associated rules are enforced and in Player matches they are not. You are now unable to have a game that does not update the leaderboards, or award XP. * Major overhaul of low-level
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