It's time once again for our annual Holiday Guides for cooperative gaming and lifestyle. Everyday this week we'll be bringing you a small guide with some recommendations for gifts that you can give your loved ones, all in the spirit of co-op. Up first is Technology and Gadgets
Last week we had a studio close it's doors due to layoffs, this week another developer of co-op games is losing some stuff. Krome Studios, developers of Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, has cut 50 or so of its staff. The Australian based developer was forced to make cuts due to a high Aussie dollar, which made getting lucrative US based contracts difficult.
Every year the fine folks at Penny-Arcade put together a charity drive of epic proportions to benefit sick children. Called Child's Play, the charity event spans the internet raising what literally amounts to millions of dollars, all from gamers.
Coming a mere year after its predecessor, swathed in a dodgy boycott, you'd be certain to think that the sequel to last year's Co-Op Game of the Year would be a tough sell. Luckily, you'd be wrong. Dead wrong.
Now that the fall gaming season is wrapping up, it's time to start hyping the games of next year. One of the biggest releases next year for co-op gamers will be Crackdown 2. Players will return to a changed Pacific City, once again assuming the role of an elite super human agent.
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce was released on the PSP last year, and despite the addition of four player co-op, you were limited by the AD-HOC only play. Perhaps the AD-HOC party would have come in handy?
Left 4 Dead 2 hasn't even been out a full week yet on the PC, but today Valve has released the first patch for the game. Don't these guys know it's the weekend?
Stop me if you've heard this one before. It's the middle of the night, and the streets are deserted. You're trying to get to your destination, but suddenly, screams fill the air and the ground shakes beneath you. A horde of creepy figures is headed your way, and though you run as fast as you can, you are overwhelmed. The crowd tramples over you, and you black out. Nope, it's not Left 4 Dead 2, it's just Black Friday once again!
Left 4 who? Resident 5 what? Pa-shaw! I bring you the latest screens of the first DLC of Borderlands, titled the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned. Fear the giant Frankenstein like creatures, look in horror as hordes of undead midgets attempt to eat your brains.
As we reported last week, Sony is bringing adhocParty, a service that enables formerly local only co-op and multiplayer PSP game to branch out a bit, to the U.S. soon. In this case, "soon" meant "next week" as the adhocParty service is now available in the Playstation Store for download. To go with the launch of this service, the good folks at the Sony Playstation Blog have provided a brief walkthrough video of how to get this service up and running so you can enjoy your previously adhoc only PSP co-op titles over the Internet... or can you? Check out the video after the break to see if you caught the same caveat we did.
A few years ago, a neighbor offered my wife a Super Nintendo with five games, all for $25, before it went into their garage sale. My wife nabbed it, and I was a happy classic gamer that entire day. One of the games in that lot, Donkey Kong Country, was easily worth that price by itself.
