Last night was the Spike TV Video Game Awards, or the VGAs. And while the spectacle was about gaming, the focus tends to be on the hollywood glamour and glitz of celebs attending. Hosted by Jack Black the entire thing was a mildly entertaining experience. The highlights for me personally were trailers for Mafia 2 and Uncharted 2.
Amazon is currently running their 15 Deals in 15 Days of Video Games deal. Every day there's some new video game related deal, today's just so happens to feature the very co-op friendly game Saint's Row 2. In fact, the best deal is the collector's edition, which is available for $49.99 (regularly $79.99). Also available are the regular editions for cheap, the PlayStation 3 version will set you back $42 while the 360 version will set you back $45.
I remember when they announced the co-op mode of Prototype was cancelled. They left us with a glimmer of hope, hope that perhaps they would come to their senses and add back in some sort of cooperative mode. We all had visions of Crackdown in our heads, and despite a possibility of a sequel, this was as close as we were going to get. But now a recent 1UP interview with Radical Entertainment's Chris Ansell, well it looks like there's no chance in hell.
So, it turns out Left 4 Dead is a pretty good game, to put it mildly. We hyped it like mad here, and for the most part, it lived up to our expectations. It's one of the most fun experiences on any console this season.
Remember the good ol' days when rap stars would feud about who's the better lyrical gangster? A time when lyrics consisted of trash talkin ho's, shooting off 9's, and of course magical blunts? No more my friends, as the rap war has bled into the video game industry thanks to the likes of 50 Cent and Soulja Boy.
Pandemic has announced a brand new content pack for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames called the "Blow it up Again" pack. The new pack is FREE and is now available on the PlayStation Network for download, with the Xbox 360 version coming out Tuesday, December 16th. But it will only be free until the end of the year, so make sure you snag it ASAP!
Here's a slightly off topic news post. We all know there's an ongoing battle for the best music game out there. Whether it's Guitar Hero, Rock Band or Rock Revolution everyone has an opinion on which one plays better, has better music and has the best co-op experience.
The weekend is finally upon us, and after the week I had, it couldn't be more welcome. Here's what the staff is up to this weekend.
GameTrailers has a funny new video that shows off some melee combat moves in Resident Evil 5. The entire video is set in an alley, where Chris and Sheva take turns kicking, punching, and shooting zombies until they stop moving.
Slowly but surely the Playstation Network is building up a collection of co-op games for you and your friends to enjoy. The latest addition to this collection is an update of a PC shoot ‘em up game that was released a year ago, Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer (roughly pronounced zoh-dner ex, him-mill styurhmer), or Mercenary-X: Heaven Stormer.
So far, we haven't seen any prominent complaints in our forums about the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, released December 2nd. Arguably, most of our users are console gamers; so this isn't much of a surprise, considering that the console versions have been on the market for months already.
