Bethesda has just announced the pre-order bonuses for Hunted: The Demon's Forge. The first two packs are your standard fanfare of exclusive armor and weapon pieces. The second packs however have revealed something we haven't heard about before - a dungeon creator.
It seems it's been a while since a major co-op release has hit. Sure we've had plenty of downloadable titles, but by my count, StarCraft 2 was the last big release over a month ago. And before that Crackdown 2. So it's good to see Mr. Kane and Mr. Lynch lighting up our summer with their gritty and violent shooter Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
With Gamescom kicking off in Germany this week, we're preparing to get an onlsaught of new media from our favorite upcoming co-op games. One game we haven't heard from in a while is the Snowblind developed title, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. The latest trailer for the game, while showing off some great co-op action, doesn't actually show off any in game action. Still the concept is quite sound and the potential for co-op play looks great between the character classes.
As you can imagine, a lot has changed here at Co-Optimus since we started Co-Op Classics, not the least of which is our video capabilities. Today, we'll take a look back at two Co-Op Classics, this time in video form: X-Men The Arcade Game, and Space Invaders II.
Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.
The Summer of Arcade is almost over, which is going to increase our downloadable time for a few more weeks, but some full titles are still on the plate for weekend gaming with the Co-opticrew. It looks like a lot of the staff is especially excited for some Monday Night Combat!
We've run out of real adjectives to describe Splash Damage's upcoming 8 player co-op game Brink. We've used the words and phrases like - awesome, drool worthy, excellent, beautiful, amazing, and hot. We even made up a word called co-operidiculousistical. Basically I'm pretty sure we've exhausted the English language, so we're going to continue making up words to describe Brink, mostly because we're lazy, but partially because we think the game deserves it.
id's Quakecon is going on right now and out of the conference comes some pretty interesting RAGE news. First up is a version of the game is currently being planned for iPhone and iPads, a live tech demonstration showcasing id Tech 5 running on the iOS4 platform was given by John Carmack and the results are impressive. Full lighting and shadows, detailed megatextures and 60 FPS were just some of the features on display.
It was only yesterday that we found out about the special editions of Call of Duty: Black Ops - and with that announcement that they would be coming with four co-op maps. Now a BestBuy listing may have leaked further details regarding that co-op mode.
Din's Curse is an action/rpg, a la Diablo, and we think rather highly of it. One of the flaws in the game at release was the graphics, but thanks to the latest patch, there are some big improvements in that area.
Blood. Drug Reference. Intense Violence. Partial Nudity. Strong Language. All of these things combined together to give Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days an M rating. That pretty much puts it off this gaming dad's wish list, but even I have to admit the official launch trailer for the game is awesome. The game will be released for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC next week, Tuesday to be exact. While you wait, watch the trailer over and over and count exactly how many cops these two take out.
