This past week, our corner of the world (Southwest Missouri, USA) was hit by a pretty nasty ice/snow combo.  Our school was closed, which meant that my whole family was "stuck" at home for four straight days.  Don't you feel bad for me?  As you can imagine, there was a lot of video gaming going on.  The first priority was finishing off the campaign in Gears of War 2.  However, we did that on the first day (and it was awesome, for sure).  So, digging through the game drawer, we came upon another game we had only half-finished: Halo 3.  And so, taking on the role of "Master Halo and the Alien Guy", as named by my seven year old, we embarked on the co-op quest. You might be wondering how any self respecting gamer hasn't finished the fight by now.  Well, let me explain.  First of all, I'm not sure how respectable I am as a gamer anyway.  Second, anytime we played Halo 3 before, I got weird motion sickness and splitting headaches after playing for about half an hour.  For some reason, the game didn't affect me as much this time around.  Maybe I'm just getting used to shooters, what with all my time spent in Left 4 Dead and Gears 2.  Headaches or not, Halo 3 was the answer for keeping the snow days from becoming boring.

This weekend, February 6th through the 8th, is the 4th Annual New York Comic Con.  Much like the San Diego one, the Comic Con is more than just superheroes.  In fact, a recent press release from the show organizers have stated that 50% of the Javitz Center show floor will be dedicated to gaming companies. 

There's a new vidoc out for Halo Wars, the two player co-op RTS from the now defunct Ensemble Studios.  The demo for the game hits Xbox Live tomorrow, but you can wet your appetite today for some of the special units at your disposal.

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So lets recap the Crackdown 2 rumors first, then we'll get to the Crackdown 1.5 ones - ok?

It's really no secret, we know you've been logging away hours on Gears of War 2, and want something fresh but similar to feast on. So - what if I told you that Codemasters, the creators of some interesting sleeper hits, such as Overlord, and Rise of the Argonauts, has announced a game that boasts to be similar to Gears of War 2, but let you wear more cowboy hats and draw pistols Wild West style? You know you're at least a bit curious.

If you recall, our review of Guitar Hero World Tour was somewhat mixed.  The game itself was slightly disappointing when compared to Rock Band 2, but the hardware, particularly the drum set, was quite a bit nicer than the Harmonix offering.  Perhaps you've been wanting to try the GH drums out, but couldn't justify buying the bundled microphone and guitar controller too.  Your lucky day is coming, on February 15th to be exact.

See that big Demigod with the giant hammer?  He's the Rook, and he's going to lay the smack down on those little dudes.  If his hammer doesn't smash them, the hundreds of arrows coming out of his face surely will finish the job.

Late last year the Co-Optimus crew dug deep into Sacred 2: Fallen Angel for the PC. It was an indepth Action/RPG from European developer Ascaron. Now several months later both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are getting their own versions of the game, nearly identical to the PC counterpart.

Propaganda Games, the Disney Interactive-owned developer of two-player co-op shooter Turok, has confirmed the layoff of 70 employees, which it cites is directly related to the recent cancellation of a Turok sequel.

You know what's better than booty?  More booty.  Bountiful amounts of booty.  And in the Age of Booty, booty was plenty.  But now we have more booty than the Age of Booty can handle.  

PlayStation 3 owners have a lot of downloading to do if they want to catch up to the Xbox 360's Resident Evil 5 demo count.  Microsoft has released a short press releasing stating that Capcom's controversially controlling co-op game demo has been download 1.8 million times since its release a little less than 2 weeks ago.