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Gunscape is a great new voxel based FPS construction kit that allows you to create your own single-player campaigns, co-op levels or multi-player arenas, tailoring the theme, weapons, enemies and power-ups to create your unique vision.

The crafting is remarkably easy once you get the hang of it, with the basic level layout created out of Minecraft-style cubes, then filled with a wide selection of decorations and interactive objects. There will be a large choice of themes, ranging from early classics to the modern triple-A stealth and war shooters. Levels can then be uploaded, shared and voted on, so there will allways be a huge selection of content to play.

There were no single-player levels available at time of testing, but Multi-player death-matches are reminiscent of early shooters like Quake and Doom, fast paced and fun, with a nice selection of weaponry, power-ups and enemies to keep things interesting. Gunscape is shaping up to be a very powerful FPS Construction-kit, with which it’s both fun to create and fun to play.

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The first concrete details of how to sign up for the Titanfall Beta have surfaced today. Until now it’s just been wild speculation and rumours, but this is now 100% confirmed. You can sign up for the years most hotly anticipated Beta now, for Xbox One and PC.

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The Last Disbeliever is a Satirical, Art-Driven First Person Action/Adventure/Shooter game set in an alternate world, where the US has started a merciless campaign for global domination. It tells the story of an ATF Special Agent Sebastian Arise who was sent to track down a suspicious cargo delivered by a US illegal firearms dealer. You end up stranded near a small village in eastern Europe, being run by a ruthless religious cannibalistic cult. Things start to turn even stranger, as you investigate Imortal emotion sapping Daemons, and even time-travel back to the year 1366 A.D.

It’s not a gung-ho shooter, combat is slower and more tactical, with all out gun-fights best being avoided. There’s a great atmosphere in the game, with a real sense of tension and danger throughout. It’s an intriguing game, that will keep you wondering (and dreading) what will happen next.

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Illuminascii is a great new FPS with a wonderful ascii text based visual style that features randomly generated content and roguelike elements. It’s a very silly game, great fun to play, and like any good roguelike, you never know what’s going to happen next. It’s probably best to explain what happened during my first game:

My randomly generated character, ‘Killroy the Gaunt Vegetable Wizard’, was wandering around admiring the scenery (it is an oddly pretty game) when a large blue ‘J’ set upon me, I promptly shot it a few times, and was told ‘you have killed a deformed burrito’. I came across many such monsters, including a ‘ruinous water pistol’, a ‘pompus corpse’ and ‘lumbering hermit’, and completed a few levels, each time with a strange randomly generated cutscene playing. I found another gun, a fruit machine, a vending machine, ammo and food. I was doing rather well, until I got to a wooded area similar to the one above, and was promptly wiped out buy a ‘lecherous motorcycle’ and an ‘aggravated bearded cat’. ’Killroy the Gaunt Vegetable Wizard’ was no more!!

You have to play this game, it’s still in early Alpha, but already in these early development stages, it’s 100% pure, weird random fun.

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Ashen Rift is an adventure horror FPS, that pits you and your loving dog ‘Bounder’ against a world full of mutants. Your goal is to shut down the rift that caused the population of your planet to turn into mutants, the rift has been open for 20 years, so expect so see some pretty weird shit on the way!

The game is very atmospheric, with the monologue from your character as he’s talking to Bounder helping to both cement your bond with the animal, and give you a better feel for the world that you’re in. It’s an interesting looking game, and unlike a certain big budget FPS that came out a few months ago, the dog doesn’t feel like a tacked on gimmick, he’s integral to the story and a well needed companion in this desolate world.

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Disco Dodgeball is a ridiculous multiplayer FPS where you race around a skate park dance club and hit each other with exploding dodgeballs, that’s currently on Steam Greenlight.

It’s a fast paced game, set in multi-level futuristic, Tron-like neon arenas that runs on PC, Mac, and Oculus Rift. The game features a host of game modes such as Deathmatch, Score Battle, Elimination, Hoops, Kill The Carrier and Derby. It’’s great fun to play, and satisfying as throwing a perfectly timed shot across the arena and watching your friend get blasted to smitherines.

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Fabula Mortis is a great new Steampunk FPS set in featuring twisted characters from old fairy tales, currently on Steam Greenlight.

Featuring characters such as Alice (shown above), Rouge (Red Riding Hood), Wulf (self explanatory) and ROB (Tin Man?) that encourage different playstyles, the game has fast paced combat with big beefy weapons that recalls old school FPS games such as UNREAL Tournament and Quake.

The game also looks visually stunning, with lots of nice little touches, it’s a joy to roam around the twisted Wonderland that developers Deadghost have created.

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CDF Ghostship is a first person & third person survival horror sci-fi shooter. It’s a fun and scary free roaming FPS with nasty aliens and beefy weapons, inspired by Doom, System shock, Dead Space and Natural Selection. It’s a fun game, and it’s great exploring the open world, discovering aliens, then blowing them away with a variety of weapons.

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In Viscera Cleanup Detail you’re a janitor who is tasked with cleaning up a facility after after a brutal and bloody battle which saw a lone hero (not you, you’re a space janitor remember) thwarting an alien invasion. It is your duty to get this place cleaned up.

The facility is how you’d imagine somewhere in Dead Space or Half Life to look after the game’s finished and the hero’s gone home and left his mess to be cleaned up by someone else. So grab your mop and bucket and get started. Clean blood stains, pick up spent cartridges, and incinerate alien body parts in the greatest FPM (First Person Mopper) game you’ll ever play!

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