One of my all time favorite crazy games is Typing of the Dead, a game that blends House of the Dead with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Yes, it's crazy - and it's crazy addictive for geeks like myself. Developer Epicenter Games looks to release a spiritual sequel to the genre, with a game that combines Guitar Hero style gameplay with House of the Dead style action. Enter Rock of the Dead.
Fairytale Fights gets its first DLC on PSN tomorrow, February 11th. The game, as you might recall, is a brutal hack-n-slash featuring all of the fairytale icons of your childhood dismembering each other in extremely bloody ways.
You may not know Greg Canessa, but Xbox 360 owners are probably using something he created everyday. Canessa has had his hand in creating many things for Microsoft like achievements, match making and Xbox Live Arcade before moving onto Pop Cap Games for a brief stay. Now with Blizzard, Canessa is the projector director for the upcoming Battle.net update which will see plenty of enhanced features for StarCraft 2 and eventually Diablo 3.
As much as I enjoyed undertaking 4 player co-op assassinations in Tenchu Z, it had more flaws than a Dubai super skyscraper. Assassin's Creed 2 is the current leader in the silent, but deadly, genre of the stealth 'em up, but it was a solidly solo experience. Great news; latest rumors suggest that a new game in the franchise (let us call it Assassin's Creed 3) will have a co-op mode.
I have a Google Android-powered phone, so I don't get in on some of the cool apps and games like Eliminate. I see the iPhone and Android phones as, say...Pinky and the Brain. One gets all the love, while the other bides his time. Perhaps global domination will come somewhere down the line, but in the meantime one of them gets to have some fun. Egad!
You may recall past rumors of a new Ghost Recon game, rumors that we pretty much jumped at. We can't help it: twelve player co-op...four-player splitscreen online and locally...this is GRAW 2's legacy, and we can't help but drool over the prospects of yet more good tactical co-op action.
Diablo III has been teasing us for awhile now. A few screenshots here, an enemy description there, Blizzard toys with our emotions and gives us just enough information so we don't fall into despair over whether we'll actually hold this game in our hands. Well, today Blizzard supplied us with another drop in the bucket labeled "Things We'll See in Diablo III." Yes, Virginia, there is a female monk in the Diablo III universe.
Rejoice fellow listeners, we've finally managed to chase Mike away from the show, at least temporarily, while he tends to the birth of his first born child.
Publisher Hudson Entertainment announced yesterday that they are working on bringing a port of the PC adventure game Dream Chronicles to XBox LIVE Arcade and Playstation Network this Spring. While the PC version of the game is single player only, this new port promises to include both online and offline co-op. Given the point-n-click interface of the game, the co-op portion will likely entail the second player acting as another arrow pointer on the screen, as we've seen with similar types of games, though the press release makes no specific mention of how the co-op mode will function.
Do you find yourself wanting to repurchase games that you already own? Do you notice an imbalance in your bank account or credit card statements in increments of $2-$5? Are you addicted to Steam, PSN or Xbox LIVE Arcade games. If you've answered "yes," you likely have a case of S.A.D.*
It's difficult to follow up a title as widely successful, hilarious, and co-optacular as Lego Star Wars. So, Travelers Tales revisits the world of Star Wars for a bit more Lego action in Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. Only this time, instead of taking the cast of the two trilogy movies, they're bringing us the Clone Wars saga from the animated TV show.
Q Game's Pixel Junk Shooter was released last year on the PlayStation Network, and by most accounts, it was pretty damn good. We would have liked to see some more co-op specific puzzles, but overall it was a beautiful and addicting game. G4TV talked with Q Games Founder Dylan Cuthbert about the sequel.
