The Co-Opticrew is getting into the weeds this weekend with one goal in mind: filling our Pokedexes and making our rivals look like straight-up fools. Given our otherworldly ability to name our rivals literally anything we want, I doubt the first task will take too long. The Pokedex, on the other hand, may take some doin', but if it gives us a chance to spend hours floating around on the head of an actual ghost, I'm all for it.
Warface, the long-standing co-op shooter, has just released a brand new campaign for you and up to four other tactical aficionados to test your collective expertise. This time around, though, players won't be blasting their way through the standard fare of Earth-based mercenaries and ne'er-do-wells. Instead, they'll commuting from their bedrooms or living rooms all the way to Mars.
Four years ago, the development team at Dead Mage held a successful Kickstarter campaign for their action-RPG, Children of Morta. There's been a lot of work done on the title since then and if you're interested in checking it out before its impending release this Summer, then you've got 72 hours to get a free preview.
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy... remember seven years ago when Sega said they'd bring their action-RPG MMO Phantasy Star Online 2 to the U.S.? Well, guess what?! They were telling the truth! ... Eventually! Amid all the other news coming out last week during E3 2019, the one bit that was perhaps the most surprising was that this F2P game would be making its way to the Xbox One and Windows 10 sometime "Spring 2020."
Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's The Division 2 has been out for just over three months and, in contrast to the original game, Ubisoft is releasing new content right out of the gate to ensure things stay fresh for players. An eight player raid is already in effect, along with a smaller free content update, and more will be coming over the next year.
We heard a couple months ago that the hit 2012 action-RPG Torchlight II would be making its way to modern consoles at some point, and last week we finally got a date. Gather your friends and play as the Embermage, Engineer, Berserker, or Outlander on September 3, 2019.
E3 2019 may be over and done, but there are still a few news bits left to cover! The next Animal Crossing game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, was finally revealed during Nintendo's E3 Direct last week, and during their Treehouse Live following that reveal, they showed off a bit of how the game looks/plays. As part of that demonstration, they also announced that there would be a lot of ways to play the game with friends and family.
Ubisoft have announced a new Rainbow Six title coming next year for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC called Rainbow Six Quarantine. By all accounts it looks directly inspired by the limited time co-op event from Rainbow Six Siege called Outbreak.
Most video games seem to view zombie hordes as obstacles to be avoided and/or destroyed, but Overcooked! 2 takes a different approach. In developer Ghost Town Games' eyes, the Unbread are driven by hunger, so why not just feed them?
The Co-Opticrew is reaping the rewards of an E3 news cycle that was both hot and heavy. For the most part, the intense period is over, so we'll now be taking a weekend to relax, recuperate, and play some titles released during the conference. If you want the latest on co-op news coming out of this year's E3, be sure to check for the [E3 2019] tag.
Here's an interesting thing to come out of E3: Konami is releasing a new Contra. CONTRA: ROGUE CORPS appears to be a sort of sequel to Contra III: Alien Wars, which you can now enjoy for the first time or all-over again in the Contra Anniversary Collection, as the official background for the game reads "two years after the Alien Wars had ended..." and the game's director is Nobuya Nakazato, who was also the director for Contra III and Hard Corps. Regardless of where it falls within the larger Contra canon, the game looks... pretty... interesting.
During their E3 Direct, Nintendo announced the Collection of Mana was coming to the States that very day (it's available to purchase digitally now). This bundle of the first three Mana games - Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana, and Trials of Mana [aka Seiken Densetsu 3] - was released in Japan back in 2017, and fans of those titles gazed from afar wondering if they'd ever bring it to other territories. Amazingly, they have, and you can play all of these games in English, French, or German (and for Trials, Spanish, too).
