Hi, folks!  Remember, way back when, where I briefly broke down the structure of some of the different types of game trailers?  It seems like only yesterday when I wrote, "Most (trailers) splice together dynamic gameplay footage and add in some appropriately themed music, tossing in a quote here and there."  This new Rage trailer does exactly that.  It's overflowing with cool stuff backdropped by a pounding track from A Perfect Circle, and yet it somehow manages to tell us nothing about the game.  All I know from this trailer is that I'm supposed to shoot everything while trying not to get squished (:56).  Works for me!

Guardian Heroes HD comes out in about a month, and will hopefully be a nice shot to the nostalgia vein of gamers who loved the original. What fans might not know, however, is that the project was originally envisioned as a sequel to the Sega Saturn game. When developer Treasure pitched Guardian Heroes 2 to their publisher, SEGA told them to first re-establish the IP. So there you have it, the fate of Guardian Heroes 2 will be determined by how well Guardian Heroes HD does. 

Game trailers come in many different flavors.  Most splice together dynamic gameplay footage and add in some appropriately themed music, tossing in a quote here and there.  Others are crafted around an emotion, which works to varying degrees.  (See Dead Island or the latest Gears of War 3 trailer.)  Then there are others that tell you exactly what you can expect in the game.  They screen almost like a manual. That's what we have here.  The following video appears to check off boxes on a features list, telling us every bullet point in The Cursed Crusade.  It's not artsy, but damn, it got me interested in the game.

Activision's Cabela's brand is launching two games this fall, both of which will support four player co-op in "Shooting Gallery" modes.  These light gun shooter like game modes have players tackling different challenges, targets and even "bosses" together while working for high scores.

It appears as if there are a lot of people on vacation this past week as publisher Deep Silver has announced Dead Island has shipped more than 1 million copies of the four player co-op game to North America alone to fullfill demand.  The world wide numbers are close to 2 million copies of the game, a number expected to be hit by the end of the week.

Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury is a fun 2 player co-op shoot-em-up that Co-Optimus gave a solid 3.5 out of 5.  The biggest barrier to our enjoyment was that levels were locked in the co-op mode unless the host player had already completed them alone!  A new title update fixes this issue and opens all levels to play in co-op from the start.

The Chimera have all but wiped out the human race, with what's left of the world forced to live underground and in small Resistance fighting groups. We jump into the role of Joseph Capelli and John to take on the Chimeran invasion and hopefully save the human race.

Don't let Epically Sad Beardface down!  Join up with Co-Optimus at the 360Voice.com Gears of War 3 Achievement Challenge!  360Voice.com is holding a contest for cash money, baby, and you can get in on the action.  Create or join a group, play Gears of War 3, earn Achievements, and get a shot at $10,000 in prizes.  It takes about a minute to enter, and it's totally free.  You can join the Co-Optimus Brotherhood by clicking on the link here.  There's only room for 40 members to a group, so sign up now while there are still open slots.

The Tokyo Game Show is in full effect, and the weird keeps on coming.  Do you want to touch the music, but don't fell like risking community service/a moderate fine/jail time/a third strike?  Are clubs not your thing because everyone is soooo damn sweaty and disgusting?  Well rejoice!  Spin your little glow sticks and douse yourself in invisible paint!  Now you can be your very own DJ with PixelJunk 4am and the PlayStation Move.  

Last week we broke the news that the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 would require two discs. This week we find out why (and we discuss Andrew Gaskill's punishment for his comments about chubby PlayStation 3 gamers).

Renegade Ops launches today on Xbox Live Arcade and is already out on the PlayStation Network.  The $15 downloadable game features four player co-op online and two player split-screen couch co-op with plenty of explosions for everyone.  

The PlayStation Vita may be a ways off for US consumers, but we can still get excited about potential co-op games.  Army Corps of Hell was just announced at the Tokyo Game Show.  It will launch with the new handheld on December 17th in Japan.  Aside from having a very cool title, the game has been reported to support  four player co-op.  According to Andriasang.com, "you play as a king of demons and must command an army of 100 goblins in the many floating islands that make up hell."  Sounds kind of like Overlord, but on an island paradise.  An island paradise - in HELL!  Mwa-ha-ha.