With the recent Xbox 360 price drop, retailers are going to be competing for your business. That means kick ass deals for you. Amazon has a very co-op friendly deal going on right now - purchase the Xbox 360 Pro with a 60GB hard drive for the new $249.99 price; and you'll get one of the following co-op games for free: Halo 3, Fable 2 or Halo Wars. You choose and you also get free shipping!
I guess this is a morning for soundtracks, too bad this one isn't free like Invincible Tiger's. The Trine official soundtrack is out and and available for purchase. The price? About 12 euros. But you can snag the amazing main theme for free, and we do recommend that.
Velma was always the brains of the Scooby Doo gang. She knew before anyone that the monster was really just some shmuck in a mask. You'd always find her head buried in a book. In the latest Scooby Doo! Fright Nights trailer she's chucking those books at scary monsters, and with Scooby by her side in the game's two player co-op - well Scooby gets a treat of his own.
Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao hit the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this week. Fierce dragon punches, five point palm exploding heart techniques and more delight your screen, in full 3d if you wish, while classic kung-fu inspired music satisfies your ears.
A few tidbits of news are still trickling in from last week's GamesCom. Jay Wilson, designer for Diablo 3, told Joystiq that parental controls will be in the game. In addition, the game will be edited for violence for release in some regions.
Stardock's Impulse looks to trump Steam's PC gaming portal and digital content delivery system by adding matchmaking into its newest update. The new update will bring like-minded gamers together by detecting each game that you play, constructing a profile based on how you prefer to play games, and suggesting other those other players.
Xbox 360 gamers tend to appreciate their achievements - a score reward to share with the world after a hard days work. We personally love when you are rewarded for working together, and Borderlands made sure Co-op gamers reap the achievement score benefits.
The Call of Duty series has done nothing but build steam since the original title, and now Infinity Ward is pulling out all the stops with Modern Warfare 2; this latest rumor is one that should please fans of cinema.
I was already fairly excited about the upcoming over-the-top shooter remake Serious Sam HD. That's before I watched the new trailer. Now, the rest of my life pales in significance compared to Serious Sam HD. I am planning to rob a hardware store for the parts to build a time machine tonight. Once the machine is built, I can travel to the future, September 9, to be exact, so I can start playing Serious Sam HD. Watch the trailer at your own peril, unless you plan to become a time traveler as well.
To absolutely no one's surprise, Microsoft has dropped the price of the high end Xbox 360, the Elite. Likely in response to the new PS3 Slim, the Elite's price is down a Ben Franklin to $299. The Pro model, with a 60 GB hard drive, is being phased out, and prices for that version are chopped to $249. The hard drive-less Arcade remains at $199.
Sometimes we find co-op in the most unexpected ways. Take the gaming clan Tied the Leader. A predominately versus clan, the folks cooked up a crazy idea - lets see how many medals we can get in one shot of the Spartan Laser in Halo 3.
Bungie and GameTrailers are treating us to three new Halo 3: ODST videos this week, one a Firefight ViDoc (video documentary) hosted by Sgt. Avery Johnson, and the other two a campaign walkthrough from GamesCom.
