For three weeks or more I’ve been working on the first two Gears of War campaigns by myself. It’s not that I haven’t had offers to play them in co-op from the gracious community; my schedule is too crazy to do anything but plow through small segments at a time. So it was to my exclusive benefit when Jason was compelled by the bossman to arrange some game time with yours truly.
What do you get when you cross tower defense, game shows, and shooters? You get Monday Night Combat - an over the top 3rd person shooter with an incredibly deep competitive multiplayer mode and a four player co-op survival mode. Robots and more robots try to steal your money. Can you stop them?
After the biggest DLC leak to hit the net in 3 days happened, we finally have an official confirmation on the next Borderlands content. Titled Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution, players will be taking on an army of Claptraps as they revolt against the Hyperion Corporation. Our four vault hunters must join sides with the company that tried to kill them or risk being annihilated by dozens of new robotic and hybrid robotic enemies - including the deadly Ninja Assassin Claptrap.
It's been over six months since we've heard much from Crate Entertainment on Grim Dawn, their Action/RPG that's a spiritual successor to Titan Quest. If you haven't kept up with the official site you'd be missing out on some new screenshots from the game - and the latest batch is looking quite impressive.
How appropriate that a game based on using three unique heroes would naturally want to take the leap into the third dimension! A new patch has been released for the PC version of Trine. Lucky owners of the Nvidia 3D Vision setup will now be able to slash, levitate, and grapple their way through all manner of puzzling obstacles in three dimensional glory. I'm not a huge fan of the whole 3D renaissance, but certainly the lovely graphics of Trine would be good candidates for such treatment.
Valkyria Chronicles was released for the Playstation 3 a couple years ago, enhancing the turn based RPG formula with 3rd person action elements and an impressive visual style. The game is thought rather highly of; I know our own resident artist, Mike, is a big fan. Coming later this month is Valkyria Chronicles II, which will be released for the PS3's smaller, more portable sibling, the PSP.
Now here's an odd one for you. There's a glitch in the full and demo version of Modern Warfare 2, though to be fair, the glitch is really with SNK's Xbox Live Arcade titles - where you get free access to the full version of trial titles from SNK that are installed on your hard drive. This includes all of SNK's games, including the co-op enabled titles like Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug XX.
Admit it, there are a lot of games on the market, and not a lot of time or money to go around. You really want the most bang for your buck, but who do you trust to give you the best possible recommendation. We give you our reviews, as well as other sites, but who should give you the final say-so?
In spite of our numerous open requests to release earlier, Brink is coming in Spring 2011. And in the meantime, Splash Damage teases us with footage the likes of which we've embedded here for your viewing ecstasy. It's pure torture - and we eat it up.
PAX Prime is set to start in a few weeks and the one thing you'll notice if you attend is the over abundance of videogame related t-shirts. If you want to look good and support your favorite gaming website while checking out the latest and greatest video games, why not pick up one of our Co-Optimus T-Shirts to wear!
Look, this ain't yo mamma's co-op game. There's no holding hands to pull your buddy up to a higher ledge, no working together because this metal gate is to heavy for Mr. Buffman to lift by himself, and there's definitely no fist bumps. This is Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days and the co-op tactics consist of shooting guys in the face...together...shooting exploding objects...together...and shooting...well everything...together.
Queue the Jerry Seinfeld voice - "What is the deal with DLC leaks these days?"
