The second half of 2011 is shaping up to be a stellar year in the gaming world, here's a list of some games to look forward to in the months of august to December in this year. Dead Island (PS3, X360, PC): This is a game that I'm really excited about, it's like Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead came together and had a baby. The player takes on the role of one of four survivors stranded on a resort ... more.

People have predicted it would happen for a while now and it has finally arrived, paying for online multiplayer. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 features free multiplayer but also offers a new service called Call of Duty: Elite. Call of Duty: Elite cost money but tracks your stats, your game results, helps you set up games between your "clan" and other teams, and other services. Mortal Kombat also ... more.

“It was also crucial to emphasize to him that while having the biggest military is cool and useful, the game isn't reductive: that's not the only way to win. This is a pretty big idea, especially for a new player. He wanted to know what genre the game was, and I told him that its genre was Civilization, and the victory condition is to create something of lasting value.” -          ... more.

Bodycount Bodycount is from the designer of Black, a PS2 and Xbox game I (sadly) missed out on. The game has a humourous side to it, the gameplay footage has a light-hearted nature thanks to the disembodied voice you hear as you play through (“your life expectancy has suddenly dropped”). The enemies are “class-based,” meaning different enemies are basically designed with different functio... more.

In this article I'll write about the zero-gravity shooter, a not very well known or popular sub-genre of the first-person shooter. Defining the Genre The zero-gravity shooter is an iffy genre to define, I must admit. There are a lot of shooters which are technically zero or little gravity, but the issue is that a lot of these take the form of arcade-styled dog fighting games. I thought for quite... more.