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Heer today, gone tomorrow. UPDATE: now with impressions of PC-only deathmatch mode.
VideoSniper Elite V2 trailer loads up
Slow-motion bullet firing due in May.
VideoNew Sniper Elite V2 Killcam of the week video
Bone-smashing fun.
VideoNew Sniper Elite V2 Killcam of the week video
Boom, wait for it, wait, headshot!
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Driver San Francisco, Far Cry 2 now playable on Xbox One via backwards compatibility
Sniper Elite V2, too.
Driver San Francsico, one of the greatest racing games of all time, is now available to play on Xbox One via the system's backwards compatibility service.
Rebellion makes Sniper Elite V2 free on Steam
Until 6pm tonight.
UK developer Rebellion has made World War 2 first-person shooter Sniper Elite V2 free to download from Steam until 6pm UK time tonight.
Wii U Sniper Elite V2 lacks online play and DLC
Publisher quiet after customers complain.
The Wii U version of shooter Sniper Elite V2 does not include some of the features on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version - and customers aren't happy.
Sniper Elite V2 on Wii U official
GamePad enables "even greater tactical depth and flexibility".
As expected, 505 Games has made Sniper Elite V2 on Wii U official.
Sniper Elite V2 will release on Wii U later this year, according to various shops.
New Rebellion PC game out on 14th Feb, but what is it?
UPDATE: Rebellion tells me it's to do with Sniper Elite.
Update: Rebellion, the tease, has ended speculation and told me this new game relates "definitively" to Sniper Elite.
UK Top 40: Sniper Elite V2 secures second week top
PS3-exclusive Starhawk nestles in 17th.
Sniper Elite V2 leads the UK's all-formats chart for the second week running.
UK Top 40: Sniper Elite V2 lines up first place
Prototype 2 shot down to second.
6/10 shooter Sniper Elite V2 has ricocheted to the top of the UK all-format charts.
Heer today, gone tomorrow. UPDATE: now with impressions of PC-only deathmatch mode.
Sniper Elite knows its limits, by which I mean its audience. It's not looking to hook the historical re-enactment crowd with a pedantic World War 2 simulation. Nor is it hoping to seduce connoisseurs of shooter fare with inventive, rarefied mechanics or an elaborate arsenal. Worthy plot and character development are a distant hope. What Sniper Elite V2 offers is a third-person duck shoot in which the ducks are Nazis with explodable testicles.
Set in and around the Battle of Berlin, its largely linear levels suggest stealth is possible, but nearly always fall back to the more reliable redoubt of mass murder, letting you plug brainpans and ballsacks as the beleaguered Wehrmacht smashes itself against your defensible position.
Nearly every killing shot in the game cuts to a slow-motion bullet camera, which peels away your victim's outer layers at the point of impact, revealing a cutaway rendering of bones and viscera which shatter and rip and pop as a half-inch of steel burrows through. Eyes are unseated as their sockets are sundered, teeth spiral out of a blasted jaw and, though it's tricky to land the shot, gonads burst into a gluey-looking red spray. That's really what people are here for, and the game delivers again and again and again, all other priorities rescinded. You can't accuse Rebellion of a lack of focus.
Free Mass Effect 3 multiplayer DLC on EU PlayStation Store today
Plus Goldeneye 007: Reloaded for £39.99.
Mass Effect 3's free multiplayer DLC pack Resurgance will be released on the EU PlayStation Store today.
VideoSniper Elite V2 trailer loads up
Slow-motion bullet firing due in May.
Rebellion desperately wants to make Sniper Elite 3
For next Xbox and PlayStation 4?
UK developer Rebellion desperately wants to make Sniper Elite 3.
VideoNew Sniper Elite V2 Killcam of the week video
Bone-smashing fun.
Bone-smashing fun.
VideoNew Sniper Elite V2 Killcam of the week video
Boom, wait for it, wait, headshot!
Boom, wait for it, wait, headshot!
VideoSniper Elite V2 trailer blasts another Killcam of the Week
First grenade training.
Rebellion explains Sniper Elite V2 Assassinate Hitler DLC
"I suppose it's deliberately controversial."
It's been called "distasteful", "disgusting" and "bad taste", and, from another point of view, potentially "one of the most satisfying moments in gaming history!" But for its creators it's "chilling" and asks "difficult questions" of the player.
Killing Hitler is Sniper Elite V2 pre-order bonus
Re-Reich the history books.
Pre-order Sniper Elite V2 and you will recieve an extra special mission, publisher 505 Games has announced.
VideoSniper Elite V2 trailer shoots new Killcam of the week
Explosive new footage from the upcoming stealth fighter.
VideoSniper Elite V2 video blasts Killcam of the week
Long-range shooter fires out the headshots.
Long-range shooter fires out the headshots.
VideoSniper Elite V2 developer walkthrough trailer
British dev Rebellion lines up.
Rebellion: gamers are ready for WWII revival
"A breath of fresh air" compared to modern shooters.
Though widely considered tired and played-out, the World War II sub-genre is ripe for a comeback, so says Alien vs Predator developer Rebellion.
VideoSniper Elite V2 footage fires in
Rebellion's inglorious long-range shooter.
Rebellion's inglorious long-range shooter.
VideoFirst Sniper Elite V2 teaser
Nazis get it in the neck.
Nazis get it in the neck.
First Sniper Elite V2 screenshot
COD beater? It's a long shot.
COD beater? It's a long shot.
Sniper Elite V2 announced for 2012
Rebellion developing, 505 publishing.
505 Games and British developer Rebellion have announced Sniper Elite V2, due for release next year.
It's a sequel to the well received Sniper Elite of 2005, plunging once more into the patient boots of a secret agent sniper during World War II.
Actual details on Sniper Elite V2 are scarce. Platforms mentioned are "the current generation of consoles"; there's nothing said about PC.
