Resident Evil 6 dominates the release schedule this week. The only other co-op title brave enough to launch is the Realms of Ancient War PC port. Wait, didn't the Xbox 360 version of this game come out between Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2? Wow. Rough break.
It's time for another gaming bundle giveaway courtesy of ROCCAT! This time we've got the ROCCAT Isku gaming keyboard, the ROCCAT Savu gaming mouse, and the ROCCAT Kave 5.1 headsets all bundled together in one fancy prize pack!
September 2012 will go down as one of the biggest months ever for RPG fans. Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2 were released just days apart. Right at the end of August we had Guild Wars 2 as well. Quite the hefty chunk of content for gamers to be sure. Other highlights of the month include Tokyo Jungle on PS3 and Castle Crashers on PC. Here are some of the stories you may have missed this month along with our reviews of 8 co-op titles.
If there's one thing the good people of Atlus know how to do, it's promote the heck out of a game. Case in point: they've just released a third trailer for Code Princess, the 3DS beat-em-up/RPG that's coming in October. Okay, Atlus has another specialty: beautiful premium packaging and bonuses for launch copies of many of their titles. Code of Princess gets the deluxe packaging treatment too, providing a nice incentive for fans to preorder.
Hey there, folks! Welcome once again to another edition of Beyond Co-Op, where Co-Optimus looks "beyond the co-op aspect" and brings you some gaming news that doesn't always revolve around cooperative play. For this week’s take, we have a couple of interesting stories on the gaming industry and how their choices affect us as players, consumers, and even developers!
I’m a big fan of Orcs Must Die! and its co-op sequel, Orcs Must Die! 2 (henceforth OMD2). I had a blast with OMD2 when it came out two months ago (as can probably be seen with the 5 out of 5 I gave it), but since then the “other twos” (other big titles that end with the number two) have sucked my attention away from this humorous, action-driven tower defense game. This week, however, I had the excuse of diving back into the game with the recently released “booster pack,” Family Ties .
There's an uprising on our hands. Certain members of the Co-Opticrew are convinced that Tokyo Jungle should be taking up our time and not the loot of Borderlands 2 or Torchlight 2. Are they crazy? With tweets like this from our own Cubninja, I'd say - probably not.
Two of the biggest co-op games of the year are here - Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2. The crew dives head first into the loot filled explosion of Action / RPG goodness and comes out mostly unscathed.
This week in Indie-Ana Co-Op we look at a game that was born out of frustration, which is an interesting way for game to come into the world. Zytron II is one man's wish to see the side-scrolling shooters of gaming yore return, and he's certainly made a good start at getting that ball rolling.
For the Wii U version only, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge will receive an upgraded game (you could count this as the “Sigma” version of the game). Not only will dismemberment visuals will be included back in the series, along with an improved AI of the enemy demons and ninjas you’ll encounter, the biggest feature going into it will be the addition of Ayane, a female ninja who’s skills are arguably on par with Ryu Hayabusa’s, as a playable character.
It's a good day to be a bug hunter. Today we have a dozen new screens from Earth Defense Forces 4. It's being developed by Sandlot, the same crew who handled the delightfully campy local co-op title, Earth Defense Force 2017. We recently posted a trailer for the alien blaster here. Watch it. It's awesome.
There might not be an NHL season this year thanks to another pro sports lockout, but that doesn't mean gamers can't have their fill of pro hockey. This year's hockey game, NHL 13, from EA sports is almost a complete reboot of the series, bringing what is perhaps the most realistic feeling hockey game to date. But can a simulation of the game create the thrill of it?
