The demo version for Trine has just hit the interwebs weighing in at around 500MB. Trine, as you might remember, is a three player local co-op puzzle platformer. Players are put in the role of one of three characters, each with unique abilities to solve environmental puzzles and move on through the levels.
Earlier this week Microsoft held an event to showcase some upcoming holiday products including Windows 7, Zune HD, and numerous Xbox 360 titles. We've already written up some extensive coverage of Halo 3: ODST, which if you haven't already, you should go check out. Despite ODST being a highlight of sorts, there were other interesting things worth mentioning
About a month ago we told you that Croteam was hard at work on a new Serious Sam title based on a brand new graphical engine. A new Serious Sam game was announced today, but not being developed by Croteam, instead new developer Devolver Digital. The game is called Serious Sam HD, and it's a remake of the original on the new Serious Engine 3.
You have to admire the folks over at Epic. Already, just over half a year since release, Gears of War 2 its fourth title update. Not too many games get this level of attention, and we're glad to see that there's a lot of co-op goodness to be had in this latest update. From Epic's official Update 4 Release Notes:
One of the coolest features in the original Army of Two was the weapon shop. Not only could you buy new guns to use in your co-op missions, you could upgrade and customize the guns, even add gold plating. Purchasing and upgrading weapons are cool, but what if you could design one from scratch? Now you can in the latest contest from EA.
Ruffian Studios doesn't want to get into a pissing match with Realtime Worlds, the original developer of Crackdown. Of course part of that reason is so many members of the Ruffian team that are working on the game's sequel were actually AT Realtime Worlds when they made the game. How many? Well almost half.
Sometimes a game comes along that's premise is so awesome, so original, we simply can't ignore it - regardless of whether or not that game has cooperative gameplay. Scribblenauts for the Nintendo DS is that game.
If you're looking to enter massive cooperative battles against thousands of soldiers, well then, you won't have to wait much longer. Bohemia Interactive and Got Game Entertainment have announced their partnership for the North American release of Arma II on the PC.
One of our favorite old school cool co-op titles is Castle Crashers. Apparently, we aren't the only ones who enjoy the game, either, according to the Behemoth development blog. Just two days ago, on June 22, the one millionth player was listed on the Castle Crashers leaderboard. This achievement makes Castle Crashers the fastest growing title ever released on Xbox Live Arcade. It's good to see that such an honor belongs to a very strong co-op title!
Sometimes I'm amazed at my OG style. Growing up in the suburbs of a small Pennsylvania city was tough living. Soccer mom's, math homework, and games on the dodge ball court filled my days in the b-hood - that's short for neighborhood for all you city folk. But at the end of the day I could always retreat inside, fire up by Sony boombox, and throw in tape of Dr Dre's "The Chronic" or Snoop Dogg's "Doggy Style." I'm an OG at my core, but I don't need to be one to head back into the Middle East with 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.
Last night I attended a Microsoft preview event held in New York City. On display amongst the numerous PCs, Zunes, Hardware and other goodies were some upcoming Xbox 360 titles. The first title I immediately was drawn to was Halo 3: ODST, in which a Microsoft rep was knee deep in a replay of the four player co-op Firefight mode.
By allowing a complete re imaging for the Wii release of a game, Atari did something much different with Ghostsbusters than what we normally see with games. Co-optimus.com was interested to see what those differences were between the Ghostbusters releases from a co-op specific point of view. Since we've already reviewed the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Ghostbusters, all that was left was the radically different looking and controlling Wii version. Does Ghostbusters on the Wii do co-op as well as the Xbox 360 version, or perhaps, even better?
