It's that time, meat lovers! Fall season 2011 is here, and buck fever has struck. A sure sign of the hunting season, Cabela's has a quick fix on the shelves for those times in between weekends when you just have to stalk something. Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012 is available this week, and already three DLC packs are waiting for you to pull the trigger.
Treasure’s seminal action-RPG/brawler is reborn on modern consoles, complete with remixed graphics and gameplay options. A branching story with multiple endings and 45 playable characters in Versus mode will keep players busy. But does Guardian Heroes have the co-op magic?
Several industry veterans have left developer Rare to form a small development house called Starfire Studios. Their first game is an Xbox Live Arcade game called Fusion: Genesis, a title that is being published by Microsoft Game Studios. What is it exactly and why is it so exciting? The game is a twin stick shooter at its core set in the future, while those may be a dime a dozen on XBLA - this one does something different - it combines the action of a twin stick space shooter with several elements of MMOs.
Dead Island has received a major patch on the PC, fixing numerous bugs including the dreaded save corruption issue, random freezes in four player co-op, and added an option to disable voice chat in co-op games. There's a whole host of fixes in place, which hopefully means, the team is going full steam ahead on the survival mode DLC which is expected next month.
I'm not the type of person to say I was right all along, but as I sit in my 'I told you so' branded t-shirt, I can look back to the news story of June 2010 and say Co-Optimus got it right! We now know for a fact that Mass Effect 3 will have its own co-op mode - yippee! More information, in the form of images and a new video, is starting to emerge from the strange wormhole that is Bioware.
About the only reason I keep my Nintendo Wii around is for the light gun shooters I own on it, House of the Dead: Overkill is at the top of the list of those. Now I have one less reason to keep that little white box thanks to hi-def version of the game coming to the PlayStation 3 with full Move support. I played House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Edition yesterday and forgot just how much I liked the game and the genre
I've been looking forward to Payday: The Heist ever since it I played it at E3. While it won't wow anyone graphically, the cooperative gameplay is a blast. The downloadable title will feature six different heist scenarios, each built with replay value in mind. There's also an RPG-style leveling system to add to the longevity of the title. It was scheduled to be out earlier this month, but suffered a slight delay. We can now expect it next week. Check out the following video where the guys hijack a truck in a slaughter house. Wait, they what?
Saints Row: The Third keeps on churning out the videos. This latest gem has even more footage from Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax. It's just plain crazy. This game has so many features, it's hard to keep track of them all. After you recover from that weirdness, check out the second video.
Publisher Warner Bros Interactive has appeased lore-hungry fans with some main character information and Belgian gaming site 9lives.be has gotten its hands on a boss battle trailer for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the Snowblind Studios co-op action RPG coming November 1st.
Naughty Dog has announced that Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception has gone gold and will be available to retailers on November 1st. The PlayStation 3 exclusive game is one we've been watching for a while, along side one of the most entertaining single player experiences in video games this generation - Uncharted 3 will offer a variety of multiplayer modes including several cooperative modes for three players.
Codemasters’ latest offering under the official Formula One license landed with co-op fanfare on September 22nd promising a 2 player online championship mode. Almost a month later and the co-op is full of bugs. How will the game fare under the Co-Optimus steward’s enquiry?
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is out this Sunday - October 16th - on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS. The two player co-op title combines real world figures with video games for a unique experience that allows you to bring your character to any of the systems. The retail package comes with everything you need to get going for your respective system - game, portal and three figures.
