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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 Hom...
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 throwba...
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 c...
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 informat...
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 trail...
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 gam...
Painkiller: Hell and Damnation coming to Mac, Linux this spring
Nordic Games has announced Mac and Linux releases of Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, the remake of People Can Fly's frantic FPS, along with a mod-kit for the PC version. Nordic says they'll be available sometime this spring, while the game is due ou...
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 better-than-a...
Stake your claim on Painkiller: Black Edition for $4 on GOG
It's hard to put a price on life's simpler pleasures, like staking dudes to walls, or staking dudes to other dudes, or lightning shuriken guns. If you could put a price on those things, it would be much, much higher than $3.99, the temporarily dis...
Painkiller: Redemption mod turned into full game by JoWood
Much like its evil-staking protagonist, the Painkiller franchise seems virtually incapable of succumbing to death. JoWood Entertainment has announced a new installment in the franchise, titled Painkiller: Redemption -- a third-party mod for the orig...
Get your Ph.D in Painkiller remake studies
Publisher Nordic Games and developer The Farm 51 are remaking the original Painkiller game (by People Can Fly) as Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, a title that seems more like a warning than anything else. If you're not scared off by that, you can...
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 non-subscr...
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 ma...
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