Sony is joining the fight against Corona, enticing gamers to stay home and play games instead of going out in the world risking spread of the disease. Wow, that just sounds bad. But welcome to 2020 folks.
The emotional masterpiece of a game we call Journey is coming to PS4s everywhere July 21st. Remastered and enhanced for the Playstation 4, Journey is a co-op game like none other. This may not be your first quest to the mysterious light atop the mountain, but an entire generation of new players can experience it with you for the very first time. From the sweeping and mysterious desert sands speckled with crumbling ruins, to the malignant clouds crackling with energy, you can relive the wordless saga once more.
Extra, extra, read all about it! Man disappears on hiking trip after releasing slanderous Smokey the Bear photos to the papparazzi! Journey to come out in both digital and physical formats on PS4 sometime this summer! The heat death of the universe draws ever closer, and we've likely wasted a majority of our lives pushing papers in cramped cubicles!
With the advent of new technology, plenty of games force you to make ridiculous yoga poses for its own amusement, but most of these rely on personal training, a la WiiFit and Xbox Fitness. I'm still on the fence as to if those count as actual games or not, but I digress. What if there was a game which allowed you to utilize the pose of a friend's real life body in order to provide platforms in that exact shape to traverse across a ravine?
Journey is no stranger to awards. Just recently the game received two of them in the PSN Gamers' Choice Awards, the soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy, and a few weeks after its release it became the fastest-selling game in PSN history. Now, developer thatgamecompany has to make some more room on the trophy shelf, as the British Academy Games Awards recently bestowed upon it five brand new awards.
Sony Computer Entertainment of America recently announced the winners of the 2013 PSN Gamer's Choice Awards, ranking PlayStation Network games from the previous year across ten different categories. We'd be lying if we said it was a surprise to see thatgamecompany's Journey topping the user-voted list, strutting away with both Best PSN Exclusive Game and Best Indie Game. Everybody loves them some co-op, right?
2012 what a year! I'm just happy that the world didn't end; the plethora of great games available via the Playstation Network was simply a bonus. The likes of Journey, Tokyo Jungle and Borderlands 2 were downloadable straight onto your hard drive. Which was the best? You can vote on Sony's site today and help decide which games get reduced for a week. Get involved and make them co-op!
Let the great debate begin! It's that time of year. The end of 2012 brings about another round table discussion by the Co-Optimus staff on what our Cooperative Game of the Year should be. You, our beloved readers, have already made your voices heard in our community polls for Co-Op GOTY and Indie Co-Op GOTY.
Journey has a lot of things going for it. The simple fable comes to life through a beautiful, yet sedated art style. The gameplay is incredibly accessible while still offering players a satisfying experience. And that soundtrack, that haunting soundtrack, evokes an emotional response that brings an almost tangible weight to the story. The good folks at The Recording Academy must have enjoyed the music as well. They nominated the soundtrack for a Grammy. You might have heard about the nomination during Spike's VGAs. Like, 500 times.
Oh thank goodness! This week marks the end of August. September is upon us. Kids go back to school, the summer lull is over, and one of the biggest co-op games of the year is only a few weeks away. This week isn't really offering up too much in the way of new releases but we do have some quality titles expanding their availability.
There are people who love the game Journey, and then there are those who are dead inside. Journey is one of my favorite games on the PSN, offering a co-op experience like no other. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it, playing through the short quest several times. I must not be the only one who dug it. The game has become popular enough to earn the retail treatment.
Download only games are well and good, but not everybody likes to buy something they can't trade in. Thatgamecompany and Ubisoft have independently come up with the same idea; to bundle up some of their most popular download games and sell them in shops. ...
