Friends! Gamers! Casuals! Lend me your eyes, ears, thumbs and other required organs for this (in no particular order) list of my favorite gaming shooters that got me into more high-level stuff as time went on. There are some mild ad-insertions, but all opinions expressed here are purely my own.

This is only limited to game’s I’ve currently played, but hopefully I’ll get into more of the greats later on sometime. Someday. Over the rainbo- LET’S DO THIS!

5: BroForce! To paraphrase Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw of ‘Zero Punctuation’ fame, “I like shooting games, but I’m not very good at them. It’s opposite to the problem I have with blowjobs”. So lucky for me, BroForce is very much an ‘easy to learn, difficult to master’ experience, largely thanks to being a 2D platformer, so if you’ve ever played a Mario game, you’ll pick up the basic controls quickly. The characters being funny parodies of 80s action hero machismo also adds to an overall fun aesthetic and experience. I still howl with laughter every time the narrator shares his thoughts on “CamBROdia” or “RamBRO”.

Fortnite? More Like 4 t’nite: Yes, it can take a little while to get used to considering many players are of a decently high skill, but once you’ve had time to experiment with the different guns and such, there are three main tips I recommend to give you an edge.

First: Make like Obi-Wan-Kenobi and have the high ground! Once you’ve mined some material, flip to the ramp as your default building tool. That way, you can protect yourself, while making it harder for the other bloke to reach up at you.

Second: Make like the US education system and get into shootings regularly! Land at the first semi-crowded area, grab a half-decent boomstick or dom-machine-gun and rinse and repeat until you start getting better. Like percussive maintenance, but for people!

Third? We’ve got a metric fluff-tonne of Fortnite merch, feel free to have a butcher’s at it here!

3: The Last of “Ughs”: The story is a great one and even suitably tense at times, but The Last of Us is also a favorite shooter of mine because the campaign encourages slow methodical strategy. Sure, you can go guns-blazing if you’re good enough and have upgraded weapons, but in a first run-through, you’ll have to rely on stealth and keeping your distance just as much brawls and shootouts. The story’s tutorial sections are also helpful and fit in well with rewarding the player for taking their time analyzing the terrain and taking inventory. Check our store if you want TLOU Remastered or Part 2!

2: Rad-Dad Redacted 2: Electric Boogaloo! Which is to say, yes. The game with the well-written flexible cowboy story and a worship of believable design to the point of realistically-implemented physics of horse bollocks happens to have decent gun-play too. The aim-assist is handy and the kick-back of different guns chunky like Moto Moto drenched in Marinara sauce!

1: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain! In the immortal words of the blokes form Cracked, “it’s like this game was made by a genius toddler”. Aim assist? Boom. A huge array of tools and weapons that’d make Doom Guy blush? You know it. Temporary slow-down-time Matrix powers that make stealth and action equally valid? Oddly specific, but YOU GOT IT! And forget realistically-shrinking horse-balls, your horse’s droppings can act as anti-vehicle mines that distract the driver long enough for you to highjack it for yourself!

Broke: Horse balls.

Woke: Tactical Manure Action!

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Sony Interactive Entertainment have reportedly made a 5% investment in the US indie game company Devolver Digital!

Devolver Digital has built something of a name for itself in the industry for usually specializing in action-based 16-bit combat games with modern gameplay innovations. A must-play of theirs on all devices (to my knowledge) is BROFORCE (not Broforce, not Bro Force, BROFORCE): A 2D platformer-shooter hybrid wherein you get to play alone or in co-op (online or local) as various “bro”-ified versions of 80s and 90s action heroes from film and TV. And I swear, the one-liners from the bloke in “story” mode are hilarious! And while a VR would require me to sell more kidneys than I physically have to get one, Gorn is also a suitably hilarious action-filled romp from Devolver Digital. Speaking of VR, we have plenty of compatible games here at the store, including Skyrim VR for PS4 and PS5, The Persistence, Here They Lie and more.

Devlolver Digital has recently made a splash in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) according to GameIndustry.biz reports that the company has been trading on AIM (a sub-market in the LSE) after a flotation that values the company at almost… One BILLION dollars. Fieldfisher, a Europe-based advising law firm to Devolver confirmed the company received:

“A significant strategy investment from a key industry player”.

Upcoming titles with gameplay previews and trailers for Devolver include Weird West (think Disco Elysium meets Fistful of Dollars meets Lord of the Rings), Shadow Warrior 3 and Demon Throttle (AKA, “ain’t no school like the old school” The Game). A sequel to the peculiar puzzle game The Talos Principle was also announced for development.

More famous titles from Devolver include Hotline Miami (psst, you can get the Hotline collection HERE), the Takeshi’s Castle-inspired Fall Guys and most recently, the “reverse-horror” game Carrion, seeing you play as a monster based on John Carpenter’s The Thing.

CEO of Devolver Digital Douglas Morin has made the following statements:

“An IPO is the right choice for us to ensure our continued growth and support even more wonderful games”.

“Being a public company gives liquidity to our amazing team, all of whom are shareholders. It also gives us access to capital markets to continue investing in our growth strategy and talent”.

[Becoming a publicly traded company] “means Devolver Digital will be able to continue to invest into all the games we’re working on now, partner on new ones that we’ve previously not been able to consider, and add more of the fine people we love working with into our cadre of consummate video game professionals”.

Sony Interactive Entertainment said last week that its development workforce has grown by almost 20% this fiscal year

Douglas also announced closer collaborative work with developers from companies Devolver has collaborated with in the past, such as Croteam, Dodge Roll, Nerial (who made a game based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm of all things and I am Here For It) and FireFly Studios.

He also highlighted that “full creative autonomy” would continue to be encouraged amongst those working on Devolver Digital projects, which has personally made my art-boner fly high in the sky.

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