It may be the biggest game of the fall in terms of numbers sold, but Modern Warefare 3 has only managed to crack two of our staff members playlists for the upcoming weekend. What else is on tap? Plenty of solid gaming goodness in the form of RPGs, Indie Games, and other fall gaming hits.
The headline says it all. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 broke the single day sales record for any form of entertainment that has ever existed. This is the third year in a row where the franchise has claimed that title. Activision reports that MW3 sold 6.5 million copies in North America and the UK alone. Now I could do something cute, and equate 400 million to something tangible for the common man, like 40 billion pennies. Instead, I'm just going to offer two quotes from Activision's press release. The first is from Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing:
THQ has already announced that Saints Row: The Third will have "about 40 weeks worth of downloadable digital content after the launch." This is great news for any up-and-coming Third Street gangster. The bad news is that you'll have to pay for it. This is the company that blocked system link with an online pass, which is not to be confused with the recently announced Saints Row Season Pass. The Season Pass will net you the first four DLCs for about 15% off.
Q Games have made quite a name for themselves on the PlayStation 3 with their series of downloadable titles called PixelJunk. We've already seen a lot of great co-op games in the series including PixelJunk Shooter 1 and 2 and PixelJunk Monsters. The latest game is called PixelJunk SideScroller and it shares a lot of similarities with the Shooter titles including some slick visuals, element dynamics, and great music. But just how different is it and how deep is the co-op?
While our database always contains the most pertinent information for a game, sometimes the scope and questions that come up from the cooperative aspects extend past a simple entry. That's where's our Co-Op FAQs come in. Without further ado, our Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Co-Op FAQ is available.
The Xbox.com website has been updated ahead of the new dashboard launch (which just went out to preview members). With the update comes a new host of social features, designed to help Xbox gamers find other players looking to play the same games you are. Need a co-op partner for Modern Warfare 3? No problem.
Valve has reported that their Steam has been compromised one day after their forums were reportedly hacked as well and taken offline. Valve president and founder Gabe Newell released this statement.
Last Saturday we brought news of an expansion to the PC 4 player 'shmup, Jamestown; a game that reenvisions the historic settlement of the "New World" in a steampunk/sci-fi setting. The expansion continues with this theme by playing off of another historical event that happened around that same time and which has been im...
Saints Row: The Third comes out next week. You've probably seen a video or two of the game's brazen debauchery on this very sight. Today we have not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE new videos! Actually, it's four new videos. One is a trailer followed by a longer, 13 minutes live action version of Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax. I figured the trailer could serve as a warning before you willingly gave yourself brain damage. Seriously, it's 13 minutes of WTF. And remember, picture all of the in-game videos with another player, because the entire game supports two player online co-op!
The Cursed Crusade would, on the surface, seem to have a lot going for it. Screenshots looked nice, the altered historical setting seemed interesting, and combat looked to have a lot of variety due to the abundance of weapons and customization. Topping it all off, the game featured two player co-op, in both local and online flavors. Indeed, it sounds promising upon first glance, but the game falls far short of these expectations upon even the briefest scrutiny.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD hit store shelves this week. As an addded bonus, the co-op stealth title is packaged with two single player titles: MGS 2: Sons of Liberty and MGS 3: Snake Eater. The total bundle is called the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. These games span a decade of stealthily hiding in boxes and obnoxious exclamation points. Check out the following trailer and witness the transition into beautiful HD glory.
Call of Duty: Elite, Activision's premium service for CoD players is still down - 2 full days after the launch of Modern Warfare 3. The reason is pretty obvious, they were woefully under prepared for the volume of traffic the website and service was going to do. This really shouldn't come as a surprise, MMO launches on the PC typically have this problem, and while Elite isn't exactly an MMO launch itself - the scale of it seems to be similar. Some estimates put Modern Warfare 3 on track to sell over 15 million copies across three platforms by the end of the year.
