Microsoft have announced the official release date for the Xbox One. You can grab the system in on November, 22nd 2013. The console is launching on this day (a Friday) in 13 markets: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, UK, and USA. The November 22nd release date is the same day the Xbox 360 launched in 2005.
Like a fine wine or particularly stubborn piece of special toffee, the Wii U version of Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara has benefited from being left for a while. 360, PS3 and PC owners have had the game for several months and gloried in its 4 out of 5 four player co-op. Wii U owners now get their chance on September 5th.
Mario fans will be happy to hear Super Mario 3D World received its official release date, launching just before holiday season this November. Be sure to bring your friends over from New Super Mario Bros. Wii U!
Here we go. Long weekend, short week. Get your game on.
If you’ve ever had the wild desire to observe your own meager defenses overrun by piles of rotting, ambulatory flesh, then you’re in luck! Shorebound Studios, of Spectraball fame, is offering you and your friends this exact experience with Dead Sky, a top down tower defense/shooter out on PC, Mac, and Linux in October of this year. Finally, you can watch on in disbelief as zombies tear across your previously impenetrable barricade and feast on your allies’ succulent, pink brains.
It’s almost as if Gearbox is afraid to stop shoveling DLC towards the monster that is Borderlands 2, perhaps fearing it will turn and devour its former master. So, once again, get ready to reload your most beloved automatic weapon and journey back to the sun-baked world of Pandora. "The Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2: Digistruct Peak Challenge" drops on September 3rd, for $4.99 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, and Mac.
Contraption Maker is a creative sandbox / puzzle game currently in development by the makers of The Incredible Machine. It hit Steam's Early Access program a few days ago, giving us the chance to sit down and tool around with the bits and bobs that make up the untamed world of digital Rube Goldberg machines....
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has more skins than a snake shedding factory, but that does not stop Co-Optimus from getting excited about the latest slice of DLC. Commander Shepard and pals are dropping in from Mass Effect along with all new textures, skins and music.
The Chaos Engine was originally released for Amiga back in 1993. It eventually spread to MS-DOS, the SNES, Sega Mega Drive and other platforms, but not until now has it seen an official release on modern PCs. The Bitmap Brothers' top-down shooter has returned, and assuming you're older than the game, it's exactly how you remember it!...
Microsoft's Games with Gold may be a poor reflection of Playstation Plus, but co-op fans have had a bevy of aging beauties to choose from, including Dead Rising 2 and Crackdown. You can now add the aged master that is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas to that list, alongside Magic the Gathering 2013.
August 2013 was a pretty solid month for co-op gamers with releases like Splinter Cell Blacklist and Saints Row IV both hitting within weeks of each other. Did we mention PAYDAY 2? Yeah that was out this month too, along with a dozen other titles.
Welcome to this week’s Beyond Co-Op, where we look at interesting news around the gaming and entertainment industry that may not directly pertain to cooperative gaming culture. This week we have a couple of big Nintendo system announcements, EA’s future with online and “free-to-play”, Iran having issues with League of Legends, and Microsoft’s plans for the Kinect.
