In addition to re-affirming a full two-player co-op campaign on the Wii version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, MTV's Tracey John gives a lengthy preview of the game's art and control styles sure to please Nintendo Wii owners this summer.
This just in, from the "Why Didn't We Think of This First?" department. Following up on a few previous news stories here, we bring you GamesRadar's list of the Top 7 Games that Should've Had Co-Op. I must say, the list is a good one, though there are a few that should be there that aren't.
Everyone appreciates the value of a good, reliable breakfast appliance. And of course, samurai are totally awesome, too; just go watch this sometime if you don't believe me. Putting Samurai and toasters together seeems brilliant, and when you add in the cool art style and, most importantly, co-op, you get a package that is hard to resist.
Some rather awesome co-op news comes our way this morning, from our COG Network buddies over at Colony of Gamers. Dead Space, an outer space horror/action title was recently released for PC, 360, and PS3. Most folks seemed to enjoy the game, including Co-Optimus head honcho Nick, as seen in his Beyond Co-Op Review. Unfortunately, co-op wasn't included in any form.
Twitter is all the rage these days. I have. Co-Optimus has it. Even companies like Infinity Ward are using it. How? Infinity War are polling the Twitter nation in regards to the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sequel and they have burning questions they want to ask. Up first?
Magic Ball has hit the Playstation Network. An update to the classic Breakout/Arkanoid style of gameplay, Magic Ball seems old fashioned on the surface. Is there enough game here to keep your co-op interest? Find out in our review!
Video game taunts are something we generally enjoy; what better way to take someone down, than to make them cry. Army of Two showed how much fun co-op taunting can be. 50 Cent has a rather, er, colorful list of taunts to use in his upcoming game Blood on the Sand. It was no real shock to us when every line had a swear word or some other form of vulgarity. Now we can spend hours hitting the taunt button to hear “Try to climb me b****, now climb this!”
More and more game developers, press, and community members are using Twitter to connect with other people. It's simple, free, easy, and extremely adaptable to other social networking tools. Much of our own staff "Tweets" daily, and Co-Optimus has its own link feed as well (www.twitter.com/cooptimus), complete with Billy avatar.
With the Dawn of War 2 Beta is coming to a close, Relic has decided to share some interesting stats concerning the game over at the official Community Blog. The most popular race used in the beta was the Space Marines, with over 40% usage followed by the Eldar with 22% and the remaining at 18% a piece. There's some other great stats there including win and loss ratio and favorite game types, noticeably missing is co-op - well..not noticeably, it wasn't in the beta.
It's only been a few months since Guitar Hero World Tour was released, which means one thing. There's another Guitar Hero game right around the corner. No, not that one...this one.
You ALMOST had us Criterion. You added totally awesome cars are premium DLC to your 8 player co-op title Burnout Paradise. And what did you go and do? You priced the best car in the pack double that of the others. That's right, you'll be dropping $4 on your mock-DeLorean car in Burnout. I'd honestly be willing to pay it if these were actual license vehicles, instead of knock off cars.
I'm going to try to make it through this news item without calling any Activision CEO's Satan. This will be difficult for me, as it appears that the milking of the Guitar Hero franchise will be strong as ever in 2009.
