Astro Gaming has long held a a reputable place in co-op gamer's library of devices. Their headsets and mixamps make communication during gaming a breeze and the sound quality top notch. We've seen the A40's for consoles, A38s for portables, and the A50s for PC. But today we're looking at an evolution of their A40 lineup - the A40 TR which works for just about everything. An enhanced "Tournament Ready" version of their best selling headset.
Wandering through the large, open world of Fallout can be a little lonely. Sure, you can drag along an NPC companion, but they will just stand in the line of fire, aggro deathclaws, and make you overprotective (looking at you, Dogmeat). NV:MP has a solution for Fallout: New Vegas PC players in a free mod that allows for multiplayer.
It seems that the developers at Studio Wildcard love to surprise and delight players of ARK: Survival Evolved with a steady stream of new content. Patch 233 includes a whole slew of goodies, with a new dino featured. The Gallimimus hauls three people around, allowing two friends to tag along and attack anything that moves. This new mount is one of ...
Sony's "Vote to Play" system returns this month to ask all PS Plus members "what should be one of the free games offered in March?" The three games up for your selection include two solid co-op titles: Assault Android Cactus and Broforce. I won't lie, that's a tough choice.
If you cast your thoughts back to summer of 2015, you may recall news of a new FPS title that looked like a mash-up of Doom and Minecraft, titled Gunscape. The game's biggest hook is that it will allow a group of up to eight local or online players - on the Xbox One and PC versions only - to create their own levels together. Word has finally come down that it will arrive on the Xbox One this March.
Way, way back in the prehistory of the Tabletop Co-Op column, more than six years ago, we covered our very first cooperative board game here at Co-Optimus: Pandemic. In the time since that first article ran, Pandemic has become one of the most popular board games in the world, spawning a dice game, an upgraded reprint, and several expansions. Last ...
Sounds like Tom Clancy's The Division enjoyed a fairly successful beta weekend. Just prior to all of that going down, though, Ubisoft released some details concerning their plans for supporting the title after it releases this March.
Last night we wrapped up our Trine 3: Artifacts of Power play through. It was a shortened stream in which we only needed to complete two side missions and the final boss fight to end the game.
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the action-y, space ninja-y, free-to-play Warframe got a big update last week in the form of new content. "Ring of Fire" is the latest bundle of goodies to arrive for the title and brings with it a new playable Tenno, new weapons, and some new customizations.
The staff picked 2015 Co-Op GOTY, Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, is getting some new content, in both the free and paid variety. The free bit will include a new mode that should be familiar to anyone who's played a co-op game the past few years, while the paid content adds a new map for said mode.
The latest Games with Gold titles have been revealed and there are two co-op titles among them: Sacred Citadel and Gears of War 2. Both are the Xbox 360 versions of the game, but they will work with the Xbox One thanks to the Backwards Compatibility program.
January is typically a quiet month in the game industry following an insane couple of months leading up to the holidays, and 2016 holds true once again. We saw only a handful of co-op releases and a trickle of news of what's coming down the pipe. Here's the stories, games, and features you may have missed from Co-Optimus for January, 2016.
