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Painkiller franchise resurrected, Painkiller: Resurrection revealed

If you played the original Painkiller, a 2004 FPS which won Joystiq's coveted "Best Game of Every Year, Ever" award™ for its inclusion of the electric shuriken gun, you'll be pleased to know that publisher JoWood Productions and developer ...

Hollywood experiments with Painkiller

Have you heard this one before: Guy Walks Into a Bar acquires Painkiller...? No, it's not a joke. Well, sorta ... it's Hollywood. Production company Guy Walks Into a Bar has purchased the feature film rights to DreamCatcher Interactive's 2004 ...

Painkiller: Overdose demo now available

Everyone knows that the best thing about first-person shooter Painkiller is not its incredibly ironic title. (Do you get it? ... Because he causes pain.) No, the best thing about Painkiller was its stake gun, which shot massive wooden spikes that ...

Painkiller: Resurrection demo raises the stakes

We've heard literally nothing from JoWood Interactive's reboot of the purgatorial stake-gun shooter, Painkiller: Resurrection, since it was first announced back in April. Therefore, we see this news post as providing two important pieces of ...

GOG in the Machine: In Cold Blood, Painkiller

Your weekly, Good Old Games-sponsored tour through the classics of PC gaming continues this week with a new addition, In Cold Blood, available now for $5.99. If you're unfamiliar with this stealthy adventure all the way from 2001, we've put a ...

Oh, hey -- Painkiller: Resurrection released

So here we were, thinking about how odd it was that a demo for Painkiller: Resurrection stealthily released onto the intertron last week after hearing nothing about the game for, oh, like six months, when all of a sudden we noticed that the full ...

Zero Punctuation pops old Painkiller for fun

Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee rocks it old school this week in a trip down "kill everything you see" lane with a review of Painkiller. Way back in 2004, which if internet time is converted to normal time is circa 1674, Painkiller received ...

GameTap Thursday: Tuesday brings Golden Goose, Painkiller

GameTap will be updating with Painkiller and a new episode of Grimm today, due to the annual "gobble day" falling on this Thursday. Instead of the normal 24-hour grace period for freeloaders, the new episode of Grimm will be available to ...

Painkiller: Black announced

Painkiller: Black has been announced. This limited edition of the title will be released on DVD and will contain the game and the expansion pack, in a special collectors box. The DVD will also feature "making of" videos, music videos, as well as ...

Painkiller maps extend the pain

We've only recently discovered Painkiller around here. The Serious Sam-like gameplay has us yearning for a simpler time, when all you needed was a shotgun to take out the living dead. The developer, Ritual, has made a few maps for us to enjoy. ...

Painkiller Battle out of Hell review on Gamers Hell

It took awhile for me to get around to trying out one of the Painkiller demos, but now that I have I'll be buying the full game. I guarantee it. Once I get through the queue on my desk, that is (about 4 games). The fast action reminds me of ...

GameTap Thursday: Painkiller Overdose, XIII Century Death or Glory

Oh, blargh. Writing this post last week was so much easier when it was about Syberia II. This week, GameTap gold subscribers gain access to a neo-DOOM game and an RTS that might be a good -- wait, no, we take that last bit back. Painkiller: ...

Dreamkiller: It's like Psychonauts and Painkiller had a baby

click to PROBE THE INSIDIOUS DEPTHS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS (ie: peep the gallery) What is Dreamkiller? It's like Psychonauts and Painkiller had a baby, and that baby has grown into an angry teenager who then scratched the design doc for the game on ...

Zero Punctuation not bewitched by The Witcher

In the latest installment of Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee (or rather Retard McSpacky Pants) has set his foul-mouthed sights on The Witcher, a computer RPG in the truest of forms (i.e. a really big manual and familiar medieval fantasy setting) also ...

Epic believes People Can Fly, acquires majority stake

Epic isn't letting their courtroom tiff with Silicon Knights slow them down as they continue to push forward, investing a majority stake in independent developer, People Can Fly. Best known for their work on the 2004 first-person shooter, Painkiller, ...

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