Locke and Nick take have take to the stars to live out their dream of moving out of the basement and into their own place. Unfortunately they couldn't afford a classy space apartment and instead have to deal with an infestation of dirty aliens while remembering to provide all the comforts of life - like a microwave.
In case you have been away from the battlefronts in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for a spell, the war continues to rage on against the forces of grotesque evil. This battle has now expanded onto the second free Drachenfels map - Blood in the Darkness. The official word from developer Fat Shark states, “In the new free map to Warhammer: Vermintide 2, the merry band of heroes commonly known as the Ubersreik Five are on their way towards the castle but are faced with unexpected challenges. The hostile environment appears to be even darker than ever.“ This update is available now across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
PC players who are fans of zombies, rejoice! State of Decay 2, a game you may have had to skip due to it being limited to Xbox One and the Windows game store, is coming to Steam on March 13. Furthermore, the title is also being updated into the Juggernaut Edition, which will bring all 3 add-on packs, additional content, and a number of quality of life improvements ranging from improved controls to bug fixes. The best part is that if you already have State of Decay 2 (whether you bought it or are playing it through Game Pass), your game will automatically become the Juggernaut Edition this Friday.
The first DLC for Zombie Army 4: Dead War arrives today. "Terror Lab" is the first mission in a new three-part campaign (Hell Cult) that will be released over the course of the next few months. Also available today are some new character and weapon skins, new weapons (submachine gun and a semi-auto carbine), along with what appears to be a new playable character, the "American Sea Captain." All of this is included in the $35 Season Pass, or it can be purchased separately. If you're not interested in any of that, then there's a new Horde Map, Undead Wood, available for free.
The Co-Opticrew is dipping a toe into some morally grey areas this weekend (just to see how it feels, of course). Our intentions are thoroughly journalistic, but I suppose we can't help but keep our digital, ill-gotten gains. Will this serve as a gateway experience into deeper, darker flights of fancy, or will the pressure of doing something really mean scare us back into lawfulness? Find out next week on another exciting episode of "Our Weekend In Gaming"!
Things are both going down and getting real in the Forgotten Realms. Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3, has been drip-feeding us information on their CRPG ahead of its release this year. As expected, that slow drip picked up quite a bit of speed when gameplay was revealed at PAX East about a week ago, and accompanying it was a slick, heart-thumping opening cinematic.
The Nintendo Switch version of Rebellion's Zombie Army Trilogy finally has a release date: March 31, 2020. Get ready to snipe the undead on the go!
At the end of January, Flaming Fowl Studios announced that their F2P card game, Fable Fortune, would be shut down on March 4. That day has arrived and while the game is still listed on Steam and the Microsoft Store, you'll get a network error when you launch it. The servers have ridden off into the golden sunset... Perhaps we'll...
The Co-Opticrew may be slowly emerging from the dark recesses of winter, but that doesn't mean the dark recesses of our hearts are going anywhere. As testament to that fact, we're spending the weekend immersed in the metal lifestyle. Whether it's through the wailing of guitars or the gnashing of skill trees, we'll be paying tribute to the most brutal of music genres the only way we know how.
Baldur's Gate 3 has been officially revealed this week at PAX East in Boston by developer Larian Studios. The sequel is almost 20 years in the making, with the last new BG game released in 2001 by Bioware.
Out of nowhere, PlatinumGames announced they would like to bring their sleeper hit from 2013, The Wonderful 101, back from the WiiU grave where it was laid to rest (alongside the console). With a successful Kickstarter campaign to back it that currently sits at over $1,700,000 with an original goal of $50,000, the game is officially returning to Nintendo via the Switch come May 19th, 2020. The game may well find its way to other consoles, as the Kickstarter campaign also exceeded the $250,000 and $500,000 stretch goals are to get the game to Steam and PlayStation 4, respectively.
World War Z was recently updated with the long-requested Horde mode, but in a more recent update developer Saber Interactive has further updated the mode with the goal of having “shorter but more fun and much more rewarding sessions” and “greatly increasing” rewards for the mode, especially after beating round 10. The u...
