The Steam Winter Sale is still in full swing and today's items have just been revealed with the tick of 1PM Eastern. It's a quick and easy way to bolster your PC gaming collection without having to drop a lot of coin. Available today are plenty of good co-op games for some ridiculously low prices.
As you may have noticed, it's been a slow month for gaming news. Many of us are on vacation. Some of us are dutifully sitting in empty offices, our vacation days already spent on gaming conventions. Others still are visiting friends and family, trying to load this page using their parents' crappy internet connection. As you sit there at home with family, or in your office getting scared by a rogue cleaning lady, or at your parent's house trying to guess the neighbor's Wi-Fi password, we offer these two videos for your viewing pleasure.
Monaco: What's Yours is Mine released a video showing off some of the game's online multiplayer play. It is also the first music piece that has been released for the game, done by Monaco composer Austin Wintory.
While the new co-op releases are slim this week (only one title), there has been a huge amount of downloadable co-op games that have come out over the past few months. Similar to our retail co-op game backlog list from a few weeks ago, today we offer you the best downloadable content from the past few months. First, this week's one, brave, co-op release:
Skyrim might be one of the biggest games of 2011, but it was missing one key ingrediant, co-op. The game is still epic in it's own right, but being able to slay dragons with some friends or showing off viking shaped snow angels would be an absolute blast - sadly - we couldn't do that until now. Skyrim Online is a new fan made mod that adds an MMO aspect to the game, allowing players to login and enter the world of Skyrim together.
So it might not be real gameplay footage, but Freddie Wong of YouTube fame is back with another great gaming related video. This time it's his take on the Battlefield franchise - and I don't mean this take. Titled Battlefield 4 Co-Op the video looks at a pair of soldiers working together to take down some enemy combatants. There's some slick nods to things you'd only see in Battlefield games and the audio and look of the video is pretty spot on.
It's Christmas this weekend and that means plenty of time with family and friends for a lot of you. It also means the perfect opportunity to get in some quality couch co-op gaming! Here's what the staff is going to be playing this weekend during their time off. We hope everyone has a great holiday and we'll see you back here on Monday!
Some of our readers may be too young to remember this, but once upon a time Capcom made bunches of licensed NES platformers: Duck Tales, Little Nemo, Yo Noid, etc. And they were all really good! A short while later, somebody figured out that licensed games sold the same regardless of quality, sadly leading to modern shovelware like Thor and Captain America from Sega. Now let’s turn that frown upside down, because Capcom has actually released a very cool licensed game for PC this week: World Gone Sour… A Sour Patch Kids game. It’s a blast from the past!
Before this fall started there was a battle heating up on the gaming front. It was a battle of military shooters - Modern Warfare 3 vs Battlefield 3. Activision entered the contest as the reigning champion, their franchise selling millions of copies each year across all three platforms; Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. But EA wanted to challenge the dominance with their own storied franchise with BF3. We take a look at both games and ask - "Did their co-op promises deliver?"
Nothing brings holiday cheer more than a shotgun, a sexy Santa outfit and a hard rock version of your favorite Christmas song. The folks over at Croteam have put out a video of the multiplayer Santa skin available for free in Serious Sam 3: BFE in a crazy 16 player co-op match set to "Carol of the Bells." Ding-F-ing-Dong.
Though The Old Republic is definitely an MMO in the post-WoW mold, what it does with the storyline brings me hope for co-op in future Bioware games. You see, whenever you're in a conversation with an NPC, your entire group attends the conversation with you. If a group member is not in the immediate vicinity, they are given the option to hop on via holographic projection.
The Zipper Interactive shooter Unit 13 was only just revealed for the PlayStation Vita, but the launch title for the system is shaping up to be a solid looking cooperative shooter for Sony's new handheld in February. There's a video available that shows the details of the game's mission interface and social features as well as the customization of one of 6 operatives with a persistent progression system.
