Remember, remember the fifth of... well, you know the rest. Indie developer Final Form Games, designer of the spectacular four player co-op 'shmup Jamestown, certainly does. They've announced today on their website that the first DLC for the game will be hitting soon, and it brings with it a new ship and perhap a few other surprises based around the historical event of November 5th...
Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.
Can you believe it's November already? We're struggling for air over here at Co-Optimus HQ as we're still completely buried in AWESOME GAMES. Seriously - why does this happen every year in October and November. I can't no less than a dozen AAA titles the staff is collectively playing, reviewing, and enjoying. Well - mostly enjoying - I'm not sure you can call anything you do Dark Souls "enjoyable."
Saints Row: The Third is at it again. No, your eyes do not deceive you! That's an astronaut riding an ATV with spiked hubcaps through the streets of Steelport. Is he making an obscene gesture to the crowd? Perhaps he's wishing them all a good day? You'll have to watch the video to find out. After seeing this impressive gameplay footage, I think you'll have to agree: Saint's Row: Third is truly the Chardee MacDennis of video games.
About that public beta? Nevermind. That's what I get for following a lead from a site that can't mind their k's and q's. It seems that I got caught up in a game of telephone, and there will NOT be a public beta for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. I am truly sorry.
After almost two months of anticipation, Warhammer 40k: Space Marine has finally launched the Exterminatus co-op mode. Was it worth the wait? Find out, in our co-op review!
Trine 2 should be out before the year's end on the PC - and quite possibly on Xbox Live Arcade and PSN too. There's already a beta available for PC players on Steam to get your hands on the three player co-op mode. Today we've got a handful of new screenshots for the game showing off the beautiful art style. Seriously - this is one of the prettiest games you'll find on any system.
Of all gaming platforms available, there is one that can be pimped far more than any other; the mighty PC. You can take a basic PC and cram it with bling; more memory, a better motherboard, funky lighting - it’s the daddy of slickness. Now the PC can lord it over the likes of the 360 and PS3 even more, as their version of Saints Row: The Third will have exclusive features. Pimpin'.
No, Kevin Butler is not trying to force choke you. If he was, you'd already be dead. He's simply demonstrating a way for you to win some cash monies in a new Uncharted 3 contest. If you have a webcam, some free time, and some rock-solid deltoids, you can win yourself $10,000 bucks. That's right. Ten. Thousand. Dollars. That's like a bazillion nickels, or all of the pennies in the whole world*! Simply go to grabthering.com, register, start up your webcam, and grab that damn ring. Then hold it for (as of this writing) at least 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 36 seconds. You didn't thing it would be easy, did you?
Confirming info from earlier this week - Ubisoft has officially announced the first details of the next Rainbow Six game. Oddly, it's not called Rainbow Six, but rather Rainbow 6, replacing the word six with the number*. All previous iterations of the franchise and novels used the full word. As we previously reported, the name is Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots and yes...it has co-op.
Americans celebrated Halloween this past Monday and all manner of ghouls, goblins, and ghosts filled the streets searching for that which all unnatural things crave: candy. In movies and games, though, their appetites turn toward something a little more filling, and in Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone, that something is you.
Techland recently filed a trademark for the title "Dead World." Cool titles get trademarked all the time, so what's the big deal? I'll tell you: Techland is the publisher of Dead Island, and that is a big deal. Dead Island is one of Co-Optimus' favorite titles of 2011, with its open world(-ish) gameplay, brutal melee combat, and most importantly, its four player online co-op. The game has done very well, so a sequel seems inevitable. Hopefully Dead World will have a smoother launch. If it's anything like its predecessor, the debut trailer is going to be awesome.
