In this issue of MMOCO, we have a big ol’ mix of things. We take a look at an unusually-themed crossover event for TERA, the closure of NA and EU servers for Kritika Online, and a new type of server being introduced for Anarchy Online....
The Co-Opticrew is all here! Unless you count over half the staff, in which case almost no one is here. Nevertheless, we determined few are tasked with holding down the weekend gaming fort, and by gosh, we're going to do so.
Co-op games are a sometimes complicated, exciting business where all of the members have to pull together to accomplish a goal. There are a number of games that require a fine synergy of skill, will, sweat, and tears for a party of co-op partners to achieve victory no matter how many players are involved. Iron Crypticle keeps all of that and nothin...
A new season kicks off today in Destiny 2 as the "Season of the Forge" draws to a close. The "Season of the Drifter" will add some new goodies regardless if you have the $35 Annual Pass or not, but you'll get a little more with it. As this season is tied to the mysterious Drifter and his PvEvP Gambit mode, it shoul...
Ever since Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime arrived four year ago, seems like we've seen an uptick in co-op games where players work together to manage/pilot a ship, which is A-OK by me! The newest entry in the cooperative ship simulator is Barotrauma, a game from Finnish developers FakeFish and Undertow where players control a submarine as it explores the watery depths of Europa.
The Co-Opticrew is off to Washington DC to get a taste of all the looting, shooting, and shlooting that Tom Clancy's Games Squad has cooked up for us. Will there be numbers appearing over bad guys as we shoot them? Yes. Will we spend hours pursuing ways to make those numbers arbitrarily larger than they previously were? Also yes.
The recently released Xbox One and Windows 10 exclusive Crackdown 3 has received its third update post-launch, with more on the way. The last update added a little new content (more details below) while this one focuses on some co-op specific issues, like co-op campaign saves overriding other saves.
You've conquered the minions of Chaos. You've slain hordes of Skaven. You probably think you're the cream of the Vermintide 2 crop, right? This summer, Fatshark Games is going to reinforce the fact that no, you very much are not.
If you're suddenly in the market for a four-player cooperative FPS game and wondering when something new/exciting will be coming along, good news! 10 Chambers Collective's GTFO is, apparently, right around the corner. The Swedish developer released a new video - a "behind the scenes" documentary - that goes into some detail about the characters/story, the setting, the monsters you'll face, and the music.
Last week, Sony began issuing refunds for Overkill’s The Walking Dead as it was said to have been cancelled. Then, in a swift public announcement (via a quick and detail-free tweet) from the game’s publisher, 505 Games, they said the game is not cancelled, just ‘purely postponed’. However, the IP holder of “The Walking Dead”, Skybound Entertainment, has now said that they’ve cancelled their contract with Starbreeze Studios and so the game is officially… dead. (sorry)
BioWare's Anthem is a video game that was released in February 2019. Part of me wants to stop there and just leave this as a purely factual post. The other part has some things to say about the aforementioned game. In the span of about a week and a half, it has become one of the most talked about releases so far this year, but not exactly for positive reasons. For this week's "Let's Play Co-Op," Mike and I did our best to talk about the good, the bad, and the co-op, though if I'm honest, it is weighted towards "the bad."
The first DLC pack for Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes arrives today on the Nintendo Switch. This continuation of the No More Heroes franchise is kind of a departure from the past two entries, featuring a top-down, button-pressing, hack-and-slash adventure with everyone's favorite otaku, Travis Touchdown. The new paid content adds a new playable character, two new skills for that character, and a new text adventure.
