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Contra: Operation Galuga

Contra: Operation Galuga
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Konami dusts off the ’80s run-and-gun classic for today’s generation. While Contra: Operation Galuga mainly offers new graphics and audio to the NES arcade shooter, it also has a few new stages and enemies and adds a four-player arcade mode. It’s time to steal lives from your kids.

Rainbow Six SMOL

Rainbow Six SMOL

Ubisoft and Netflix just dropped this lighthearted take on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six franchise with a cartoony Roguelite shooter. Build your squad and head out on stealth missions to save the world of SMOL by defusing bombs, freeing hostages, and taking down baddies. It’s free to play but requires a Netflix subscription. Available now on iOS and Android.

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Star Wars Outlaws (Gameplay)

Star Wars Outlaws (Gameplay)

Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws is an open-world game that puts you in the role of Kay Vess, a mischievous young woman attempting to start a new life against the backdrop of Imperial rule. Taking place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, she and her companion Nix must elude the Empire and contend with galactic crime syndicates.

Akka Arrh

Akka Arrh

Serious video game nerds might have heard of the never-released Atari arcade game Akka Arrh. Created by Tempest and Gridrunner dev Jeff Minter, a modernized version has been released for consoles and gaming PCs. Like other Llamasoft games, expect a trippy array of colors and insane swarms of attackers.

Mighty DOOM

Mighty DOOM

Bethesda Softworks presents a new mobile game set in the animated DOOM universe. This fast-paced, top-down shooter has players taking down massive hordes of cute and cuddly demons in familiar locations and with smartphone-friendly single-finger gameplay. Drops 3.21.23, with pre-registration open now.

Caverns of Mars: Recharged

Caverns of Mars: Recharged

Caverns of Mars was one of the best games for Atari’s 8-bit PCs. Caverns of Mars: Recharged revamps the downward-scroller with HD graphics, trickier obstacles, new power-ups, destructible environments, local co-op, and global leaderboards. Coming to Atari VCS, Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch on 3.9.23.

Exoprimal (Story Trailer)

Exoprimal (Story Trailer)

Capcom’s squad-based shooter Exoprimal drops players into a crazy world where dinosaurs have started to replicate by the millions across the planet. You’ll suit up in a state-of-the-art Exosuit to battle the horde and teams of opposing players. Coming to consoles and PC in 2023.

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Glitchpunk (Trailer)

Glitchpunk (Trailer)

This top-down action game puts you in the shoes of an android bounty hunter who must brawl, shoot, and drive their way through a dystopian future. Players will face off against endless hordes or gangs and corporate baddies as they tear through the neon-lit city. Coming to Steam Early Access 8.11.2021.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Gameplay)

Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Gameplay)

(PG-13) Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint has you playing as a military special operative stranded on an island where former colleagues have seized a drone factory. The open-world game features classes, customizable gear, and up to four-player co-op and PvP. Drops 10/4/19.

The Division 2 (Trailer)

The Division 2 (Trailer)

The sequel to Ubisoft’s looter shooter takes place shortly after the events of the first game. The Division 2 is set in the summer in Washington D.C. The game packs more balanced weapons and gear, a revamped skill system and a new clan option for multiplayer.

The Hong Kong Massacre

The Hong Kong Massacre

(Gore) Inspired by Asian cop movies, The Hongkong Massacre is a fast-paced top-down shooter that is as stylish as it is challenging. One shot and you’re dead, but you can slow down time, slide and somersault. Drops 1/23/19 for Windows and PS4.

Warframe: Plains of Eidolon

Warframe: Plains of Eidolon

Farewell, stairs and hallways. The upcoming expansion of the free-to-play third person shooter Warframe will add a new open world with seamless mission transitions, and will let you fly around on your Archwing. It also adds a weapon building system. Gameplay here.

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Eclectic Method: Game Weapons

Eclectic Method: Game Weapons

Rather than using sound bites from another movie or TV show, this Eclectic Method track is made primarily from weaponfire and reloading sounds from first-person shooters. As long as it doesn’t include the incessant microphone chatter of 10-year-olds, we’re good.

Horizon Zero Dawn (Trailer 3)

Horizon Zero Dawn (Trailer 3)

The latest spot for Horizon Zero Dawn has us more stoked than ever for the PS4 ShooteRPG, and provides a brief setup to the game’s premise: that the Earth we know has fallen and reverted to a more primitive state, but it’s still filled with massive, deadly machines.

House of the Dying Sun

House of the Dying Sun

Formerly known as Enemy Starfighter, the one-man effort House of the Dying Sun puts you in the cockpit of a fighter pilot exacting revenge on the traitors who killed your emperor. The game is short, but it makes up for it with quality space dogfights and unlockables.

StarBreak

StarBreak

A sidescrolling shooter from one of the creators of Realm of the Mad God. StarBreak is a lot like Contra, except with dozens of other players and procedurally-generated dungeons. If you die, you have to start from scratch, but you keep any cash and loot that you stashed.

Alienation

Alienation

Another neon-streaked twin stick shooter from Housemarque, the developer behind Dead Nation, Resogun and Super Stardust. Alienation features drop-in/drop-out co-op, Souls-style PvP, random loot drops and different character classes. Drops 4/26/16 for PS4.

Gears of War 4 (Teaser)

Gears of War 4 (Teaser)

The cinematic teaser for Xbox One shooter Gears of War 4 sees JD Fenix – son of previous franchise hero Marcus – return to his home under very different circumstances. The game is set 25 years after GoW 3 and features a new enemy called the Swarm. More here.

Sniper Elite 4 (Gameplay)

Sniper Elite 4 (Gameplay)

(Gore) Karl Fairburne continues his fight against the Nazis in 1943 Italy. Sniper Elite 4 promises much larger levels than its predecessor, with improved movement to help you navigate the new levels. Drops for Xbox One, PS4 and Windows in 2016.

The Mean Greens

The Mean Greens

A third-person multiplayer PC shooter where up to 10 players on each side play toy soldiers battling in whimsical environments. Each of The Mean Greens’ 10 maps has a different objective. You can play foosball, gather flags from a ship in a bathtub and more.

Helldivers

Helldivers

From the maker of Magicka and The Showdown Effect comes another frantic coop game. Helldivers is a twin-stick shooter for up to 4 players, with lots of weapons, power-ups and friendly fire. Drops 3/3 on PS3, PS4 & PS Vita.

Noct

Noct

A stylish horror top-down shooter. Noct spooks players with its thermal imaging view, fog of war and cramped environments. The game will have procedurally generated levels and multiplayer. Headed to Windows, OS X and Linux.

Enemy Starfighter (Trailer)

Enemy Starfighter (Trailer)

Enemy Starfighter is a mix of real time strategy and space combat sim, and will support the Oculus Rift. It may not be as pretty as other upcoming space shooters, but it’s promising considering it’s being made by one man.

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