A few months ago we previewed the beta of Dolby Axon, a piece of software that allows for realistic, natural, and seamless voice chat on the PC through client software. The software not only supports up to 50 people in a chatroom at once, it allows for positional chat, private partitions, and a virtual meeting space.
We just got a brand new trailer for LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 titled "Conjuring up Fun." The focus of the trailer is on the open nature of LEGO Games, and specifically the creative things you can do in the latest addition to the franchise. But what really grabbed our attention is the focus on co-op and a unique implementation of split screen co-op.
This week brings us three new Xbox Live Arcade titles, and lucky for us, one of them is co-op! Fret Nice is a rather quirky looking game, a platformer with a music game influences. Two players can team up to play, though sadly they can only do so locally, and not online. You and your partner can battle "heavy metal bosses", and defeat enemies by "creating your own sounds with each "strum" of a chord". Add on a robust character cutomization system and the papercraft graphical style of the game, and Fret Nice appears to be worth checking out. It will be available Wednesday for the MS point equivalent of $15. Why not check out the Xbox.com entry or the official homepage in the meantime?
Gearbox Software has announced that the next piece of DLC will hit Borderlands tomorrow, that's February 23rd, on the Xbox 360, while the PlayStation 3 and PC will see it on Thursday the 25th.
Honestly, I don't know how I have any fingernails left at all. Every time I see a screenshot or preview article for Splash Damage / Bethesda's 8-player co-op title Brink, I have to remind myself that there are still around seven months to wait. Excuse me for a sec...
The Co-Optimus staff doesn't have an overtly reputation for getting too far ahead of ourselves, although on occasion we're known to get excited about something that may have been too good to be true. In this case, we found a video that suggested there would be 8-player co-op in the Perfect Dark Xbox Live Arcade port...it turns out that was the online multiplayer mode. Co-op is still online and offline, but limited to two players in each case.
We've previously covered, through various post-mortems and look-back interviews, how Bungie had considered Matchmaking for Halo 3: ODST, but how it was ultimately shot down due to the time and effort that would have been involved with such an undertaking. Well last Friday OXM UK heard from Bungie's community boss, Brian Jarrard, that Bungie's biggest regret was "not being able to go back and make Firefight in ODST work and have match-making."
Despite a previous meaty content updates as well as a host of fixes, Operation Flashpoint 2 will see no further advancement in support according to the official forums.
It is not often that we in the UK get to say this - "we had it first!" However, in the case of Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle, this rarity has occured. The 4-player co-op puzzle game is an exclusive title for the Playstation Network by developer Relentless Software, the makers of Buzz. Parts 1 and 2 are already available in the UK, with part 3 coming soon and downloadable free for Brits. A press release from Relentless has confirmed the US release dates and pricing as:
Following our written review of White Knight Chronicles, we bring you a review in video form. We're going to strive to bring you folks more video content this year and this is just the beginning.
A whole slew of information has recently been released regarding the next Borderlands DLC entitled The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. So what can we looking forward to in Borderland's third DLC, exactly? Plenty, apparently!
Yesterday, we brought you word of a new Nintendo DS co-op title, Dragon Ball: Origins 2, that is slated to hit stores this summer. Today, we bring you the first trailer for the game, which shows off a bit of the co-op challenge mode in action. Based on what's shown in the trailer, it appears that players will be able to use special co-op attacks to take down bosses and other foes when they team up for the challenges. Here's hoping this mode is as much fun as it appears to be, and doesn't go down the same path as other titles with these types of challenge modes.
