Co-Optimus

"Dundun dun derr, dun dun dun dun derder." The Sonic games have the type of music that will haunt me to my grave. The recent revamp, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, may have had the music, but did not have the co-op gameplay of Sonic 2. This is being rectified in Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, according to the Xbox marketplace; they mention 2 player co-op both offline and online. Who could this second character be? Big the Cat? Of course not, it’s Tails - check out the latest gameplay trailer to see the speedy duo back in action.

At the start of any dating relationship, there are always a lot of firsts. First date; first kiss; first time introducing one another as boyfriend/girlfriend. For a gamer, perhaps one of the more important firsts, though, is first game played together. The question is: which one?

Even more DLC is coming for NeverDead.  I know!  I'm as shocked as you are!  Speaking of shocked, check out that guy in the header image.  He looks like he should be holding coffe mug and a stapler.  Looks as if NeverDead's accountant has been drafted into the demon war.  

Awww, isn't that nice?  Those robots are trying to murder-hug a gaggle of P. Walter Tugnuts.  I had a joke about four Tugnut's walking into a bath house, but I appear to have misplaced it.  Oh well.  Please assume it was high-brow and the epitome of taste.  The robots must have huge heart-ons because the Shoot Many Robots release date has been announced.  Grab three friends and shoot all the damn robots on March 13th.  

If you didn't get enough stabbing, killing, and blood from our Shank 2 Review, the nice developers from Klei are tossing you another weapon to add to your arsenal. A short comic has been made that outlines the breif events between Shank and Shank 2, featuring the art of Jeff Agala and Vangelis Christou.  We can all agree that the art style of the Shank games is absolutely stunning and is perfectly suited for the comic book medium. 

February 2012 was brought to you by the number 12, the letter K and the video trailer term Epic. Mass Effect 3 and Borderlands 2 have shown us how a great trailer can make Co-Optimus readers giddy with excitement. The next game to try and achieve this is Inversion.  If you are confused by the 10th Feb release date the trailer reports (a date now gone), you may also be baffled by the fun physics the game will offer.

Things have not been going well for Transfomers: Fall of Cybertron.  Sure, it's the sequel to what many believe is one of the greatest Transfomers games ever made.  It had a fantastic debut trialer at last year's VGAs, and it features everyone's favorite Dinobot, Grimlock.  What could go wrong?

  A demo is out today for the Zipper Interactive created 3rd person shooter on the PlayStation Vita called Unit 13. The demo for this tactical game offers up the training mission which has an obsession with beards as well as one map with all six operatives playable.  The download weighs in at just under 1 Gigabyte, so it might...

The PlayStation Vita is out everywhere today and we've been playing it for the past week with a feverish pace.  Today we bring you the first batch of reviews from the system's launch.   These reviews are obviously of the game's single player affairs, we touched on one of the co-op games today in Dungeon Hunter: Alliance.  If you didn't read our review of the system, you can find that here.