It's been a long time since I've played a Tropico game, in fact, it might be since the first game in the series. The Tropico games have always been about building up and managing an island in the caribbean, with all the tasks and risks you'd expect for the situation. The thing I remember the most from the original was the ability to nam...
Every once in a while, a game will materialize into existence solely to remind you of a genre you thought had been dead for years. For example, Blue Estate, a rail-shooter, just released on the Playstation 4. That's right! A rail-shooter. I harbor no ill will against the genre, but discovering they are still being made is like finding out your neighbor just bought a new brontosaurus.
It's a surprisingly busy week for early July with a handful of co-op games coming out. It's a good way for you to escape the summer heat, by staying indoors and cooling off with some couch co-op games. It's almost as refreshing as the pool, and likely, less wet too!
Released this month for OUYA, Double Dragon Trilogy includes the three installments in the classic 1980s beat-em-up franchise. For $2.99, you'll get Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2: The Revenge, and Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone - that's about a buck per game.
The Steam sales continue on, and our wallets continue to empty while our hard drives are filling up.
And with this post, E3 2014 has finally come to a close for Co-Optimus. Two weeks after the show ended we're finally done writing, editing, and talking about all the great games we saw in Los Angeles this year. We've put out over 20 videos with exclusive interviews with developers and hands on impressions with games. We've written over 30 hands on previews of the co-op titles we saw at the show and we've posted countless other announcements and media for your pleasure.
A lot of our interviews at E3 were informative and engaging. We chatted with developers, producers, artists and more about games they were extremely passionate about being a part of. Then there was the folks from Free Lives. Not only were these folks passionate about the game they were creating, Broforce, they were fun, relaxed, and ready to rock and roll. We went into that trailer tired from E3, we left it ready to battle for America.
Announced earlier last month, Drinkbox Studios is bringing an all new Guacamelee game to consoles this July: Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. While it might be up for purchase for many of the consoles, the Xbox One will be offering it for free to Xbox Gold Members.
While Sniper Elite 3 will see day one patches on other platforms, none will be larger than the massive 16GB download for Xbox One. What's the deal here? Well Rebellion continued to improve the game after completing a finished version of the game. VideoGamer.com snapped a screenshot of the install. A huge chunk of the update is to...
We're finally wrapping up all of our E3 2014 coverage. Locke is putting the finishing touches on the last few video interviews, and all the writing previews are officially done. It was an amazing show for Co-Optimus; one in which we got to see over 25 co-op games. Every year we nominate games that exemplify co-op gameplay, and show the greatest potential for fun for gamers. This year we've got seven games nominated with only one winner.
Rainbow Six Siege was a surprise announcement of the show, a reboot of Patriots, Siege was unveiled at E3 2014 but only shown in a 5vs5 multiplayer format. At first we were worried, would the Rainbow Six games we loved turn into some sort of competitive only franchise? Fret not, Locke dug deep in his interview with designer Andrew Witts and got the goods on what we can expect from Rainbow Six Siege when it launches next year.
One of the things I loved most about Fantasia: Music Evolved is that it truly is about the music. From watching trailers and gameplay you may think the concentration is on dancing, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. In fact, I'd argue you don't dance at all. A music game that requires Kinect but isn't a dancing game? It's true. And it's pretty fun too.
