Superbowl Weekend in the US - for the rest of the world it's just another weekend.  Here's what the Co-Opticrew is up to....

Bruce Shelley of Ensemble studios has a goodbye post on the company's official blogs.  In it he talks about his early days at the studio back in 1995.  Now some dozen games later, the studio is shutting down.

A bit of Co-Optimus trivia for you fine folks: this post is officially post number 1,171 for Co-Optimus (excluding two beta posts by Nick Puleo). It's post number 99 for little ol' me. And the game that we're covering here was first covered on Co-Optimus exactly one year ago today (January 30, 2008).

When former Titan Quest developers formed Crate Entertainment, it was announced that they were working on a new action/RPG called Black Legion.  Edge-Online has conducted an interview with the newly formed studio to get the goods on the upcoming game.

Oh DRM - How we loathe thee.  Let me count the ways.  One - You don't really do anything to stop pirates.  Two - You only end up hurting the real customers.  Three - You are a royal PITA.  Four - You do nothing to stop pirates. 

  A few years ago, when the Xbox was new to the gaming world, Jet Set Radio Future and Halo were the only two games I had that were new enough to be interesting. I would alternate between these games, and my mind came up with some amazing dream scenarios where I was the Masterchief on rollerblades 'shooting' cartoon cops with spray paint fr...

If you've checked out the recently released demo for Resident Evil 5, you've probably encountered the charming gentleman featured in the screenshot above.  You've also probably died horribly because the controls are a bit wonky, and seem, well, old school, to put it nicely.  (For that matter, what's with not being able to skip cut scenes?  That seems so 2003.)  Friend, you are not alone, just ask the MTV Multiplayer Blog.

I realize I am late to the party, but I just beat Halo 3 in co-op mode.  Imagine my surprise, then, when I checked the official Co-Optimus news queue and lo and behold, there's a new video for the next Halo game, Halo Wars.  The video features lots of gameplay, along with a few well done cut scenes, no stranger to the Halo saga.  The developers offer their perspective on what makes Halo Wars different from the typical RTS, and some choice bits about translating one of the premiere FPS series into RTS form.

I'm a sucker for a good SHMUP.  I was pretty excited when last year we saw a solid remake of 1942 in 1942: Joint Strike and an Ikaruga re-release on the Xbox Live Arcade.  Since then, well I've been a sad penguin.  Especially since the island of the rising sun got Raiden IV.  Boo - no fair!

Warning, the following post is going to confuse, baffle and perhaps excite you.  

Last week during the Video Games Live concert in Seattle Washington, the orchestra performed for the first time ever the theme from Halo 3: ODST.  The Halo franchise has always been about atmosphere and mood, and Marty O'Donnel's music plays a huge role in that.

If you downloaded the beta yesterday, you may already know a bit about the Orks in Dawn of War 2.  Gametrailers takes a look at the class and some of the units.  Mostly it just shows a bunch of green dudes smashing and destroying the crap out of everything.