Considering the whole Infinity Ward thing going on now, this comes as a bit of a shocker. Bungie, creators of the Halo franchise, have signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Activision, publishers of the Call of Duty franchise, for all future properties they create that are not Halo. The press release states this includes "multiple platforms."
The official website for Blacklight: Tango Down just went live, and with it has come a boatload of new information and media. While we learned quite a bit about the co-op mode of the game, called Black Ops, from our interview with producer Andy Kipling, there were some holes left to fill in the puzzle.
A little over a week and a half ago, Co-Optimus and Bungie had another one of our Halo Waypoint Co-Op nights. The focus of this particular event was to collect the skulls and audio logs from Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, respectively. Having not yet gathered all of the audio logs in my single player game, I figured that this was the perfect time to do so, and I was not alone. Nick and community member Bakken Hood were also pursuing these back-story fragments that were scattered all about New Mombasa, and were prepared with a map that showed the locations of all the audio logs. We were unprepared, however, for what awaited us at the end of our search.
Devolver Digital and Croteam have announced that Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is out now on the PC and available to download via Steam.
We're just a couple weeks away from Black Box's latest entry in the Skate franchise, Skate 3, and while we've seen a fair amount of the team-based multiplayer aspects of the game, both in our impressions and from the recently released demo, we haven't seen too much of the co-op aspects in action. Fortunately, a new video from EA gives us a taste of what some of that co-op looks like, and what you and your friends can do together when you team up in the freeskate mode. In addtion to the new video, there's another bit of news to share. Interested in asking the developers some questions about the game? Read on to find out how.
There have been rumors floating around that Splinter Cell Conviction is coming to the PS3. Apparently these rumors are groundless - at least for the time being. Ubisoft posted the following message on their Twitter:
Abbot and Costello, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Pork and Beans: apart from each other, they are acceptable, but combined, they turn into something far better. So what would happen if you took an actual, functioning electric guitar, and combined it with the fake plastic doodads used to control music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero? You'd get something like the Power Gig guitar, shown above.
As promised, we have the new 60 second trailer for Halo Reach. The live action short shows you the Spartan III creation process of the new Noble Team leader for Halo Reach.
We've always had a love for independent co-op games at Co-Optimus. Whether a one man job or a small development house, these games usually have a lot of heart and soul to them. This week we checked out the Xbox Live Indie Game Quad Force; a 4 player local co-op top-down shooter using a few unique elements. The goal of the game is to survive a series of waves on a different maps with your buddies. Here are a few impressions based on our experience.
A "relic of the Cold War". That's what M once called the star of 007: Everything or Nothing, the only James Bond co-op game to date. Although the line was spoken in one of the films, it applied to the Bond franchise inadvertently: Everything or Nothing was also the last 007 game to feature co-op, since Activision took the reins from EA and reverted a perfectly good third-person co-op action game back to its relic days of first-person shooter. Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed Quantam of Solace as well...but there's a reason why it's not on my game shelf, and the former is.
It's been a little over two months since we first heard about Game Republic's upcoming sequel, Dragon Ball: Origins 2, that will include a special co-op multiplayer mode this time around. Based on Akira Toriyama's famous Dragon Ball series about a young boy named Son Goku who's on a quest to find the mystical Dragon Balls, this particular title will follow Goku's adventures with the Red Ribbon Army. We've received some new screenshots of the game, and while they don't seem to show off too much of the co-op multiplayer mode, they do provide a good glimpse of what Dragon Ball: Origins 2 looks like in action.
