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.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is becoming one of the most recognized Star Wars brands, with it's beautiful stylization that allows us to look past the poor CGI of the prequel films. Knowing this, we at Co-optimus are happy to see a Clone Wars style video game, featuring 8 playable Jedi, and 10 playable Clones with 2 player drop-in, drop-out co-op! Star Wars Clone Wars: Republic Heroes will have an original storyline, as well as some slick looking gameplay. To match the stylization of the visuals, the game will feature some new playing "styles" of it's own, making it one of the more unique Star Wars action games around.
Get ready to get your co-op on in Indiana Jones And The Staff Of Kings! 2 player local co-op, a co-op fit for kings - or Indiana Jones fans. Co-op specific quests featuring Indie and dad, Henry Jones Sr. You're bound to have a blast playing this one with a friend, check out the co-op preview trailer if you don't believe me!
With a name like Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, there's not much Semnat Studios needs to do to sell me on the game. But then they just go off and release a kick ass trailer showing off the game's four player drop-in and drop-out local co-op mode with plenty of toast tossing action.
A wise man once said that it's easier to destroy rather than to create. What the wise man neglected to tell you was that it's also a lot more fun. That's the premise of Konami's upcoming title for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
In this weeks "Deal of the Week" on Xbox 360, the Gears of War 2: Combustible Map Pack will take a nice price cut. If you've been waiting to unleash some awesome in the Combustible map packs new levels, wait no longer. Normally 800, Xbox LIVE Gold Members will only have to fork over 560 this week! The Combustible Map Pack features 3 new stages, Flood, Gold Rush, and Fuel Station.
Sometimes the words "digitally remastered" is like music to our ears, especially in the case of our Nintendo 64 classics! This time, we've got the original Perfect Dark on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, thanks to Rare and Microsofts team up. Perfect Dark has an updated, smoothed out frame rate, as well as being rendered in high definition. Joanna Dark would be proud, as long as it's not all just another one of those galactic conspiricies.
Pixeljunk, a name in innovation and original content is bringing us something original, and innovative. Out of this latest Pixeljunk news, we get Pixeljunk Shooter, a co-op side-scrolling shooter that we can't narrow down to a type of game to compare it to. You are a ship of sorts, changing an environment by shooting rocks to blend lava and water together to make usable terrain, while saving miners stuck in these underground caverns. Given a certain quota of miners to save in each level, it's a good idea not to drown or boil them to death.
This. is. how. you. tease people.
An odd preview popped up at Joystiq for Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games during E3 week, confirming four-player co-op locally for Wii.
