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It's a holiday weekend in the United States with many people experiencing the truly rare beast of a "4 day weekend." With cookouts and fireworks a plenty, there's little time for gaming. That being said it's so beastly hot out throughout most of the country, hiding indoors playing video games in the air conditioning is a solid alternative.
Drox Operative, the top down space RPG from Soldak, is getting it's first expansion pack later this summer. Called "Invasion of the Ancients" it'll add new gameplay elements and a new race to the game.
Gamersgate has rolled out a new IndieFort bundle just in time to help Americans celebrate something about tea or Paul Revere or fighting off the British with nothing more than fireworks and grilled meats. It's a bit of a small bundle featuring only three games, but they all have co-op play, which counts double as far as we're concerned.
If you have been following the video game world lately, then chances are you have heard about the smash hit XBLA game State of Decay. An open world sandbox game based around surviving a zombie apocalypse, State of Decay is a dream come true for many gamers. While it might be a little rough around the edges, the underlying concept and gameplay has managed to hook in over half a million sales. In fact, the game is the second fastest selling XBLA game behind the one and only MInecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.
After playing Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine for the first time, we had to beg the question: “Would a level editor eventually make it into this game?” Just think of the all the possibilities for different co-op missions one could create if given the opportunity. Luckily for us, Pocketwatch Games actually listened to their fans and granted Monaco players the chance to design their own levels!
Happy 3rd of July, America! I hope everyone is prepared for the four day weekend. Are you all ready for beer, BBQ and sky explosions? I know I am. I'm also ready for Saints Row IV, but unfortunately that little piece of unbridled escapism doesn't drop for another month and a half. I want to be president and I want super powers NOW, dammit!
Scourge: Outbreak is available from the Xbox Live Marketplace today. The third-person sci-fi shooter focuses on squad-based co-op and the entire campaign is playable cooperatively. Gamers will take on the rolls of Echo Squad, yet another group of powered-up super soldiers who look like they popped right out the Unreal Engine 3. Amp, Mass, Shade, and Stonewall are vying to save the world from an evil terrorist organization, or mafia kingpin, or global corporation, or whatever. Does it really matter? Shoot stuff and have fun.
Doomsday has arrived. The terrorists have their hands on a nuclear device. As America’s only hope, you are thrust into a secret compound tasked with stopping the nuke from destroying the land you love. As you weave your way through the compound, eliminating terrorists in your cybernetic suit, you have a showdown with the boss of the operation. As you throw him into a pit of lava, you realize that it’s too late. The nuke has been launched. In your most noble sacrifice, you jump on the flying nuke, disabling it as you scale to the top. Your companions tell you how much you mean to them in your final moments. Oh yea, and Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing is playing in the background. Tell me, how much more Murican does this get?
We came away pretty impressed with Takedown: Red Sabre after we saw it at E3 2013. You can read our impressions of it right here. The game felt like a return to tactical games of our PC past - like the original Rainbow Six - and that's a good thing. The latest video for the game showcases four minutes of footage and gives you a taste of what to expect.
I’d find it hard to fully initiate a member of the new Vault Hunter crew without some sort of customizable skin to adorn. Thankfully, we have a brand new batch of Borderlands 2 head and skin DLC packs have been released to accommodate those playing as Krieg the Psycho. His friends also get some too, so don’t worry about being left out here.
The next big piece of DLC has hit for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Along with four new multiplayer maps for the game will be a new co-op zombie scenario for four players to team up on. It's called Buried and is set in what looks like a haunted mansion in an abandoned mining town.
