Up until this point, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 has mostly only shown it's good side, with a few bad seeds strewn in the mix. Now, the spotlight hits a few heavy hitters from the villains side of the board, where Venom and Green Goblin have entered the scene. The developers over at Marvel give us details on their decisions for these two, including the way they look and the way they fight!
The response to the upcoming release of Left 4 Dead 2 has been less than cordial. In fact, part of the gaming community decided to boycott the release of the game altogether, feeling betrayed by Valve who appeared to renege on their promise for additional content. Well, Valve has finally spoken up, promising not to ignore the first Left 4 Dead game in favor of the sequel.
Believe it or not, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is still a pretty popular game. It's actually very easy to find a game to jump into, more so a Terrorist Hunt than a versus match.
What do you remember most about the fairytale stories from your childhood? If you were exposed to Mother Gooses version of many of these tales, your memories are probably full of talking animals, bright colors, bizarre characters, and happy endings. Not too far off is Fairytale Fights, with it's bright colors, bizarre characters and, well, the similarities end there. Prepare to face a beautiful world with environmental hazards and relentless enemies in Fairytale Fights, with a taste of twisted humor we can't ever seem to get enough of.
Just a friendly reminder that the two player co-op Gunstar Heroes hits the Xbox Live Arcade today for 400 . The game will launch on the PlayStation Network tomorrow. Gunstar Heroes features enhanced graphics as well as online and local co-op play.
Thursday, June 11th will see the release of two high-profile DLC packs: the previously mentioned, and the Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island pack. With the new island comes plenty of areas to explore, bigger jumps, more races and events, ten new challenges, and nine new vehicles.
Remember all those cool features Microsoft announced for Xbox Live at their E3 2009 press conference? Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM, and more all highlighted a rather social looking update for Microsoft's dashboard and online service.
Gearbox has confirmed that their four player co-op action/RPG, Borderlands, will be shipping this October for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The game had a very strong showing at E3 this year, with generally favorable impressions of what was on display.
As promised, here is the trailer for the Call of Duty: World at War zombie survival map Shi No Numa, featured in the upcoming Map Pack 2.
Remember when Sony bought Ghostbusters game exclusivity in the European region, thereby locking out Xbox 360 owners from getting their hands on the title until later this year? Yeah, that sucked worse than a Slimer bath.
Peter Molyneux has asked us an important question today, one that I hope fans of cooperative games will stand up and answer. Via his Twitter, Molyneux asks:
There are many different types of games on the market for many different types of people. So, what designates which games can be played together, and which can not? We at Co-optimus.com tend to preach friendly co-op gaming, and notice many of the single player games out there feel somewhat cheated out of a quality co-op experience.
