This February, co-developer People Can Fly (Painkiller) is leveraging Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 for Bulletstorm, a FPS that makes other FPSes wet their pants and cry themselves to sleep. At least that’s the attitude this game brings to the table. In reality, during our very short time with the Bulletstorm demo, we got the impression [...]

Atomic Games is bringing their expertise with wargames to Xbox Live Arcade with Breach, their new online multiplayer first-person shooter.

As our 2011 backlog is already starting to build up, everybody here at SmashPad has taken the opportunity to look back upon the games we enjoyed the most from 2010 for our annual The Year in Screenshots feature. Rather than go through the hassle of dwindling these games down to name a Game of the [...]

Kratos and Ready at Dawn return to the PSP for God of War: Ghost of Sparta, the latest chapter in the Spartan’s story.

Yes, another Call of Duty game.  While Activision is giving gamers more than their fair share of the popular shooter franchise, year after year one thing remains clear:  they are always consistently great games with some of the best multiplayer components around.  That said, Treyarch has always been the step-child of Infinity Ward, developers of [...]

Just a friendly post to let all of our readers out there know that we have not disappeared and are just recuperating from a long stretch of holiday gaming. The holidays brought with it fun, tons of gaming, and sadly not enough free time.  The majority of us have real life jobs with real life [...]