Call of Duty games in order: By release date and timeline
CALL of Duty, one of the most successful and popular gaming franchises of all time, celebrated its 20th birthday in 2023. The warfare-based universe has amassed millions of players through dozens of titles since it burst onto the scene in 2003. Timelines within the franchise stretch back from World War...
'Warhammer' sequel brings battlefield action to die-hard fans
Berlin (dpa) — War, death and religious fanaticism — this nightmarish triad forms the basis of the tabletop game “Warhammer.” Since the 1980s, the British manufacturer Games Workshop has been developing strategy games in which fans chase miniatures of soldiers and monsters across the board. With that success has come countless video game spin-offs. In 2011 there was the action game "Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.” That’s now got a sequel that takes place around 100 years after the events of the first part. Thanks to life-extending implants, main character Titus is still in service as an elite soldier in "Warhammer 40,000: Space...
7 Great Alternative Versions of World War II in Games
World War II is, easily, one of the most well-trodden conflicts in the gaming world. This is to be expected: Huge scale, awesome vehicles, and America, with the largest market cap of the video-game industry, was one of the good guys. (China is rapidly catching up and could eclipse the U.S. in 2024 or 2025, but it was also an Allied power.)Not everyone makes the same World War II game, though, and dozens of studios have devised games set in alternate timelines where the Nazis successfully found occult technology, where diesel-powered mechs dominated the battlefield, or in which dinosaurs became...
Stalker 2 is the first FPS that made me actually understand the horrors of war
AS FPS players, we’ve gotten used to the luxury of battlegrounds full of chest-high walls you can dip behind to regenerate health. Series like Call of Duty boast realism, but it’s hardly similar to war when you can recover from a bullet wound by having a little sit-down.