Electronic Gaming Monthly's regular rumor column is filled with lots of first person shooter tidbits this time out. 1Up.com has the highlights which includes word that a modern day military shooter series could be getting a revamp. That series is the Spec Ops franchise which got started in the late 1990's via developer Zombie and (now defunct) publisher Ripcord Games.

While the series didn't get as popular as its main rival, the Rainbow Six franchise, the rumor column claims that 2K Games is working on a new game in the Spec Ops brand. The only details so far that it will take place in the highly modern Middle Eastern city of Dubai. There's no word yet on a release date nor if original developer Zombie will be involved. Zombie's last announced game was yet another military shooter title, Rogue Warrior, but there have been no updates on the development of that title since its publisher Bethesda Softworks announced it back in the fall of 2006 (and believe us, we have tried to find out what's been going on with that game).