The fabled Halo 3 "expansion" has now been announced as Halo 3 Recon, a complete standalone prologue campaign featuring ODST Marines. So far, no details have been provided, other than that the game will be available for retail in Fall 2009.
Quick, everyone check your co-op partner. I think we lost a man. A CoG tag has mysteriously shown up at Co-Optimus Headquarters which can only mean one thing, there's a fallen soldier somewhere.
A very kind member of our community, Blakepro, is giving away a beta key for LittleBigPlanet. If you haven't heard these things are currently more valuable than burlap to a Sackboy factory. Their dispersion has brought many a websites to their knees, but not this one, no not this one. Of course this may be because we only have one key to give away, and it's for the beta that ends this weekend...and it wasn't given to us by Sony. But it's cool, Blakepro is cooler than Sony anyway.
I'll admit it: I've owned a PSP - a launch model. For the most part, it was fun and had a decent library of games; and this was well before the Playstation Store was live. I sold it before Christmas last year as half of a deal that ultimately landed me an Xbox 360 Pro.
You've probably seen the Sackboy of Kratos, of God of War fame, announced as a downloadable character for Little Big Planet. Ripten reports that the GameStop preorder bonus will include quite a bit more. Those who preorder will get Kratos, Minotaur, and Medusa Sackboys (Sackpeople?), plus a God of War-themed level. Quite a nice bonus, I must say.
Good news folks. The 8 player co-op title Resistance 2 will support the PlayStation 3's Trophy feature. Trophies are like Achievements on the Xbox 360, but they are shinier. They may be more bling, but they aren't available in every game, so it's nice to see one of the biggest PS3 titles to come out this fall will support them.
There's an inherent problem with getting a game review out day 1, you miss a lot of the experience. Whether it's fully packed online servers or simply rushing through the game to get the review out on time, trust me, you tend to miss something.
Japanese gaming mag Dengeki Playstation recently revealed that Level-5's upcoming PS3 RPG will be featuring a four-player online co-op mode! Players can connect to a central lobby and form groups of four adventurers to take on quests.
I think that most everyone would agree that sinning can be fun. Or, if you want to take it a step less severe, sinning in gaming is fun. I've blown up innocent bystanders in GTA and "accidentally" done a team kill in...well basically every game that has team kills. However, sometimes, sinning in video games can make the game darn near unplayable. Thus is the case with Gears of War 2's announced Horde Mode.
Duke Nukem 3D was the most downloaded XBLA game the week of its release, which is no surprise to us here at Co-Optimus. It also managed to crack the top 10 games played over Xbox Live, which just goes to show you, you can't keep a good man, or a walking cliche, down. The game features an 8 player co-op mode, which makes us very happy. We're so happy, in fact, that we've decided to celebrate!
As I'm sure you are aware by now, we here at Co-Optimus are fans of all things cute. Rainbows, Care Bears, Little Sack people, we love them all. However, we were missing perhaps the ultimate in cute: itty bitty huge-eyed dinosaurs who blow shiny bubbles! This oversight will be corrected soon, though, as it looks like Bubble Bobble is headed to the Wii. A new Bubble Bobble game has been announced for the Japanese WiiWare service, according to GoNintendo. It is unknown whether the game will make it overseas, but as fans of the cute n' cuddly co-op dinosaurs, we certainly hope it does. Do you suppose any fan edits with darker, gloomier dinosaurs will be forthcoming?
Activison has just announced that the sequel to Guitar Hero On Tour, titled Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, is set to be released for the Nintendo DS on November 16th.
