Co-op gamers everywhere really enjoyed Castle Crashers on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. Now, Behemoth games has completely rebuilt the Playstation Network version to fit the other half of gamers that missed out. We have been itching for new information on Castle Crashers PSN after being blown away at PAX East by the performance of the game, with little info since our hands-on time.
Crystal Dynamics surprised us with the announcement that the next Lara Croft game would be a co-op action platformer with an isometric view. The quality of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light upon release comes as less of a surprise...for those who had faith in the iconic tomb raider.
It’s pretty rare that useful gaming things come with extra useful things for a game, but it looks like Fable III will be giving us quite a lot of extras with its extras. First on the list is Peter David’s “Fable: The Balverine Order,” a paperback novel to tide over hardcore Fable fans until their next Albion gaming adventure.
I’ve been saying it for years since the first Red Faction game hit my radar: The struggles of the people needs to be a co-op struggle. Finally someone from THQ has thought “hey, this would be fun with friends!” Thus bringing us the top-down shooter titled Red Faction Battlegrounds.
Bethesda has just announced the pre-order bonuses for Hunted: The Demon's Forge. The first two packs are your standard fanfare of exclusive armor and weapon pieces. The second packs however have revealed something we haven't heard about before - a dungeon creator.
It seems it's been a while since a major co-op release has hit. Sure we've had plenty of downloadable titles, but by my count, StarCraft 2 was the last big release over a month ago. And before that Crackdown 2. So it's good to see Mr. Kane and Mr. Lynch lighting up our summer with their gritty and violent shooter Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
With Gamescom kicking off in Germany this week, we're preparing to get an onlsaught of new media from our favorite upcoming co-op games. One game we haven't heard from in a while is the Snowblind developed title, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. The latest trailer for the game, while showing off some great co-op action, doesn't actually show off any in game action. Still the concept is quite sound and the potential for co-op play looks great between the character classes.
As you can imagine, a lot has changed here at Co-Optimus since we started Co-Op Classics, not the least of which is our video capabilities. Today, we'll take a look back at two Co-Op Classics, this time in video form: X-Men The Arcade Game, and Space Invaders II.
Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.
The Summer of Arcade is almost over, which is going to increase our downloadable time for a few more weeks, but some full titles are still on the plate for weekend gaming with the Co-opticrew. It looks like a lot of the staff is especially excited for some Monday Night Combat!
We've run out of real adjectives to describe Splash Damage's upcoming 8 player co-op game Brink. We've used the words and phrases like - awesome, drool worthy, excellent, beautiful, amazing, and hot. We even made up a word called co-operidiculousistical. Basically I'm pretty sure we've exhausted the English language, so we're going to continue making up words to describe Brink, mostly because we're lazy, but partially because we think the game deserves it.
