Bring along a healthy controller and a friend for this brawler set in the Sacred universe. Features four playable characters, stat-progression, customizable equipment, and a whole lot of button mashing. Some gameplay decisions prevent this game from truly shining in the herd of brawlers floating around. Still, it is an entertaining romp best experienced with two other friends on the same console.
"Spring Fever" continues this week on the US Playstation Store. The focus of this week's discounts is the Resident Evil franchise. Playstation 3 and Playstation Vita owners can enjoy great discounts on the entire catalog of Resident Evil titles this week. Both Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition feature some very fine cooperative gameplay, and if you do not own them already, are definitely both worthy of looking into. The Playstation Plus discount yields a significant discount on the already lower priced sale items. For a complete list of the Resident Evil games on sale this week, take a look below:
Stepping into the spotlight one by one, a new series of trailers have begun trickling through the intertubes promoting the impending release of the arcade brawler Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. It starts with Michelangelo, who we already know "is a party dude". He also happens to be the youngest and fastest member of the turtle bunch. The trailer below shows off some of his moves, and the image above shows off his ability to induce nightmares.
I was always more of a Warhammer fan growing up, but that does not stop me from having a soft spot for Dungeons and Dragons, especially in the form of 4 player co-op D&D: Chronicles of Mystara. This combo pack of D&D games is coming in June across PC, XBLA, PSN and Wii U. For any RPG game to work you need to know what class to play - hence these new Fighter and Cleric trailers.
Continuing the train wreck that is SimCity, the most recent released patch, Update 2.0, may just be whole a new bundle of problems instead. The patch has been reported to contain a whole slew of new bugs than beforehand, which only gives the community a lackluster update to an already disastrous release.
This week in co-op I play the Soul Sacrifice demo with random players. Here we go.
I was talking to Nick the other day and I let it slip that I had put around 25 hours into the Soul Sacrifice demo. And I don’t mean the Japanese version that came out months ago. Somehow, between playing and writing about all the games I’m supposed to be playing and writing about - and doing my part in the benevolent dictatorship my wife and I hold over a household full of pugs and children- I managed to play the Soul Sacrifice demo for an entire day (not in one sitting). It’s been out for less than a week. Embarassing, I know.
The new Star Trek game hit store shelves yesterday. Kirk and Spock, along with the rest of the crew of the Enterprise, will find themselves at odds with the Gorn, a race of rather awesome-looking humanoid lizards. This new trailer is full of action and sweet sound effects from the rebooted franchise. It features all the assorted pings and pews of a Star Trek space battle.
Sanctum 2 continues to casually stroll to its release date this summer. To keep us psyched, developer Coffee Stain Studios has released a new batch of screenshots showcasing the game's gorgeous art style along with some exotic locations and a few in-game action shots. It's a bright and shiny futuristic sci-fi world, all splattered with alien bug guts.
It's beginning to look a lot like the opposite of Christmas, what with the warm weather and sunshine and all. Terraria doesn't really care what the weather's like, though, and it's going to add a little winter cheer whenever it darn well pleases. Artist Jimmarn recently revealed screenshots showing a snow biome along with underground ice caverns that will be part of the next update. When that update hits is anyone's guess (June?), but it's going to be a massive one.
I know what you're saying, "didn't you just post your review of the game, which I totally didn't skip to the end of, and now I'm all excited to play it on my Xbox?" I'm sorry to say it's sad, but true. The XBLA version of Monaco: What's Yours is Mine is getting a delayed release. News of this came just yesterday afternoon from the official Monaco Facebook page. Not many details are provided as to the cause of the delay - the post merely states "there is an issue which requires that we push our Xbox Live arcade game release date a little" - or how long that delay will be.
An indie game rarely is in development for four years; a variety of concerns (primarily money) would make it difficult for an independent developer to tweak and refine a game for that long. Yet Pocketwatch Games' award-winning and much anticipated co-op title, Monaco: What's Yours is Mine, managed to make it through its long development cycle and finally gets sprung today on PC. Some games spend years in development and fall flat. Monaco, though, is well poised to steal your gaming time.
