As Co-Optimus celebrates its first birthday and the past year's staggering number of visitors, Ars Technica joins the celebration shortly after launching their own Ars 5.0 and announcement that traffic has doubled for the esteemed geeksite.
One year ago today we launched Co-Optimus.com with the hope of furthering cooperative gaming. We had three main goals.
When you're in a war it's good to be friends with 50 Cent. Taking nine bullets and surviving doesn't happen everyday - so it's probably a good idea to stick close to Curtis. Perhaps this is why the latest co-op trailer shows lots of Fitty's friends blowing the crap out of everything with the rapper by their side. DJ Whoo Kid, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Ranks, and others make an appearance. Don't know those names? Neither do we, but that doesn't mean we can't wait to be them in the game's two player co-op mode!
Tipster Kielaran sent in this 1UP article, which reports that MTV and EA want to expand on the Rock Band series' 600+ song lineup...a LOT.
As Co-Optimus celebrates its one year anniversary today, we thought we’d expand upon our “2008 Co-Op Year in Review” and our tenth Co-Opticast to look at just how much co-op has grown recently and what people inside the games industry think about it.
Back in May of last year, the word got out the Bionic Commando: Rearmed would lack online play despite sporting both multiplayer and co-op modes. Obviously this disappointed us, as it seems to be the case all too often these days, developers get things almost right in terms of a fully featured game.
If haven't had a chance to check out the Dawn of War 2 Multiplayer beta - well now is your chance! The beta is available to download via Steam or Games for Windows Live Marketplace and allows players to battle it out online in five different maps.
This week's co-op gaming took place in the zombie filled world of Africa. With no lions in site, the zombies roamed free in the "Shanty Town" of this random village. Teamed up with my trusty yet attractive partner Jason (Sheva pictured above) it was a kill or be killed scenario. In our case...mostly be killed.
Congratulations Ruffian Games! You may have just become Co-Optimus.com's new favorite development house! If the name of the studio sound familar, that's because we talked about them during our Crackdown 2 rumor spree a month back.
I have a confession: I owned one of those clear green Nintendo 64s. It was hideous, but I still loved it. It seems I will be tempted again by a colorful console, and this time it comes with one of the AAA co-op titles of the year. Ars Technica is reporting that a limited Resident Evil 5 Edition Xbox 360 will be released. The bundle will include a copy of the game, a purty red Xbox 360, a red controller, a premium RE5 NXE Theme, and a coupon to download Street Fighter II Turbo HD.
A large content patch for LittleBigPlanet was supposed to have been released last week. To the chagrin of adorable Sackfolks everywhere, it wasn't. However, to help ease your suffering, there are some free costumes that will be available to download between now and the end of next month.
I'm a big fan of top down shooters like Geometry Wars 2. I'm also a big fan of zombie games like Left 4 Dead. So when you combine the two and throw in a gratutious amount of flame...well I may just be in love.
