Attention dinosaur lovers/haters. Co-Optimus is following up last week's World Gone Sour contest with a brand new giveaway. This time we're shelling out five copies of the very promising first-person shooter Orion: Dino Beatdown from Spiral Game Studios. Orion launches on Steam this Friday, May 4th and supports 5-player online co-op. We'll have a full co-op review very soon. In the mean time, why not try to win it for free?
Ninja Gaiden 3 has gotten a steady stream of DLC, but until this point there's been very little in the way of co-op content. Now a new content pack is out called the Ultimate Ninja Pack and included in it are two new co-op challenges, two new sets of armor and four new pieces of headgear.
Over the years Xbox Live Arcade has gone through an evolution. While it started as remakes, re-releases, and every so often an original title it’s now evolved into something different. It’s now a service filled with games that aren’t quite big enough for a full retail product. It it feels like XBLA has lost its identity.
I do like a good collection of games; more pleasure for the same price. Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is a prime example of this, not only did you get updated versions of some of the earlier single player outings of the franchise, but also a brand spanking new update of the 4 player co-op Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD. The collection has just been announced for Vita, surely the PSP native Peace Walker would fit seamlessly onto Sony's new handheld? Apparently not, as a certain game is missing...
Well, it's been a slow month for user blogs, but where our community lacks in quantity, they make up in quality. This month in Co-Optimus Community Voice, we asked the community what they thought about Kickstarter projects and their viral popularity these past two months. Only one community member was brave enough to answer the call.
Looking for more info on the upcoming third-person shooter, Mercenary Ops? Well, here some new info on the game's modes to hold you over until the summertime comes around.
Happy Monday, folks! I hope you had a nice weekend. We've got a variety of co-op games coming out his week.
When I was growing up, Blizzard games always had two things going for them. On one hand they were always filled with richly detailed characters and were a fun, polished product. On the other hand they were remembered for their gorgeous cinematics, fully rendered and detailed that were head and shoulders above anything else out there. I can remember my excitement of getting an entire DVD with the Diablo 2 Collector's Edition that contain all the cinematics on it.
This year's Call of Duty game is set to be revealed tomorrow during the NBA playoffs on TNT. The game appears to be a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops, thanks to a leak by Target which reveals pre-order cards for the game as well as a November 13th release date.
Hmm. It appears I may have forgotten to do one of these for March. For that, I apologize. April's round-up though isn't particularly interesting, it was an incredibly light month for co-op gaming with not a single AAA retail release. That's not to say we didn't see a few interesting titles come out, A Valley Without Wind stick in my mind, but overall things were very quiet. Here are some of the more interesting stories and features to come out in April, of 2012.
Gamers under 25 don't know how lucky they are. When I was a lad all of this was fields and the arcade was full of games with near impossible difficulty. A prime example of this was Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair, a spectacular looking game that was harder than Jason Statham holding a diamond tipped hammer. Now you can relive this glorious gaming torture on XBLA from 18th April. This time bring a pal in local 2 player co-op, but is it co-op?
Welcome to another edition of Beyond Co-Op, the weekly piece that looks at some of the more interesting stories around the gaming industry that might not necessarily relate to cooperative gaming. Up this week we've got several "new game" reveals and a trailer for a game that claims to be co-op...for one player.
