Konami has announced a new game for the Nintendo DS called Magician's Quest Mysterious Times. The game is a hybrid RPG and adventure game that puts players in the role of a young student at a magic academy.
Halo Wars, Microsoft's 2 player co-op RTS, is set to launch next week on the Xbox 360 in North America while our friends in Japan and the EU should have it in hand already. To put you in the mood, they've released a brand new trailer for the game.
2K Boston's Ken Levine -- known best for his creation of the acclaimed first-person thriller BioShock -- answered ten questions for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, of which he is a member.
Gas Powered Games has always been a supporter of co-op with games like Dungeon Siege and Space Siege. Demigod is a new game coming out that is going to offer a slightly different take on co-op, something more akin to Unreal Tournament rather than a strong story based game.
If you haven't already bought the Castle Crashers DLC King Pack released in January, then you now have a chance to get it for free! Two chances!
Back in September, we reported that the reimagined Golden Axe game would lack any kind of co-op and that decision seemed to have been the death knell for the game. Today, Gamasutra posted part of a more in-depth interview that their sister publication, Game Developer magzine, had with Secret Level's Michael Boccieri. The interview is a fairly open and honest discussion about the challenges and difficult choices they had to make when they took on the task of bringing Golden Axe into the modern gaming age and is worth a full read. Of particular note, however, Boccieri had this to say about the removal of co-op:
Classic Gaming download service Good Old Games (GOG) has announced the availability of several classic Apogee titles. Apogee were the kings of PC gaming back in the mid 90s with such hits as Rise of the Triad, Blake Stone, and of course the co-op friendly Duke Nukem 3D.
LittleBigPlanet for PSP been rumored for a while, but now it's official. The cutest little mascot Sony's ever had is definitely heading toward the Playstation Portable. No official release date has been announced other than "before the end of the year". Sounds like another fall release to me; didn't they learn from their previous mistake? LBP for PSP (just rolls off the tongue) will be chock full of new content and levels, not just a port. You'll be able to play, create, and share on the go.
We previously reported that the HAWX PlayStation 3 demo was delayed due to an unforseen volleyball game. Ok, so there was some technical difficulties. The good news is, according to the Ubisoft Twitter page, the PS3 demo should hit sometime today after 5PM GMT.
Ever have that fantasy of being in a band...alone? I certainly haven't. So, why then, would Backbone entertainment decide to take the 'band' out of Rock Band in their attempt to recreate the popular party game on the PSP? Rock Band: Unplugged seems to be just that, unplugged. That's right, no co-op whatsoever.
From the Sega USA blog page comes a joint post by the community team describing their impressions of Phantasy Star Portable for PSP. The game is coming to the United States March 3rd, and features 4-player ad hoc co-op.
I covered Wii Shooters a few weeks back for Co-Op Casual Friday. Nerf N-Strike was clearly the cream of the crop as far as I am concerned. I thought it was worth taking another look at it for a Co-Op Review. We'll take a look at each of the multiplayer modes in the game, separating the co-op cream from the rest.
