Well howdy pardner. Another weekend approaches faster than a prairie dog pricked by a cactus, and with it comes another weekend filled with gaming bliss. For a lot of us, it means the wild west of Red Dead Redemption, others are getting their hands on Alan Wake in the Pacific Northwest, and still others will be in Washington DC for Splinter Cell: Conviction. Where is your gaming going to take you this weekend?
We just got a fresh batch of screenshots for the four player co-op DLC coming to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 called Onslaught. The mode, announced last week, has players competing on various maps to complete objectives against enemy AI. Yeah we know, that's called co-op.
Co-Optimus has brought you a lot of information about Skate 3 over the past few months, and now that Black Box’s latest in the Skate franchise has finally grinded its way into retail, we’ve gotten a chance to spend some quality time with the game and dive deep into all of the co-op it has to offer.
The rumor has held true, today Lionhead has officially announced the PC version of Fable 3 launching alongside the already announced Xbox 360 version. The price of the Windows version is set for $49.99. There's no word yet if cross platform play will be available, but we'll keep our fingers crossed for co-op play between the Windows and Xbox world!
Red Dead Redemption isn't the only co-op Western game to come out recently, though it might have been quite a bit more high profile than Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Old West from Swedish developer FatShark. Lead and Gold was released last month on Steam and while the bulk of the game is focused on versus play - the game does offer one two player co-op mode.
Gameinformer.com has the low down on all things Gears of War 3. According to their "Coalition of Ordered Governments," which seems to be "leaking" a profile or other news bit about Gears 3 just about every day this month, there are a few interesting profiles of the old and new Gears characters. The biggest change has been the evolution of Anya, going from office babe to badass soldier, to really badass soldier, which is evidence by the art that goes with her profile page.
It's time for another Battlefield Report. Unfortunately, gaming for this soldier has been sparse recently, so for your enjoyment this file is restricted to one extra-descriptive battle. Hang your hat and read on.
During our preview of Charlie Murder from PAX East, we were told the current Xbox Live Indie title may be coming to other platforms. At first, I thought this meant Ska Studios may be branching out to the PC or possibly the PlayStation 3, but, what actually was happening was some behind the scenes negotiations with Microsoft.
Skating always proved more fun for Isaac when accompanied by the ambient sound of spooky nursery rhymes
Now that uber game service Steam is available for Macs, more and more titles are being released for Apple's long neglected (by game companies, at least) platform. One new addition is Killing Floor, a strong co-op zombie slaying title. We thought rather highly of the title, and it's on sale for 33% off the standard $20 price. Best of all, cross-platform play is enabled, meaning you can slaughter hordes of undead with a friend regardless of their preference for a computer.
The above pictured Japanese magazine has officially leaked the full game co-op title Virtual-On Force, which is similar to the XBLA version "Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram," only bigger and more co-opey. Virtual On is Sega's version of Armored Core - giant mechs, guns, explosions, etc. The arcade game is a world of fun, but Kotaku has the scoop so far on what the full game will contain.
I'm going to enjoy seeing the Twitter responses when this post gets auto-tweeted to the Co-Optimus followers. Most confusing headline ever? May be.
