While SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 is indefinitely delayed, which probably isn't as bad as it sounds, Sony has decided to tease us with some fresh new media from the PlayStation Portable title. We have a fresh batch of screenshots and a trailer showing some in game action for the four player co-op title.
2009 was a good year for Arcen games, makers of the successful and addictive co-op RTS, AI War. In what's no doubt a result of that success, Arcen has announced it will have two vastly different titles coming in 2010 - both which will support co-op play. In fact, Christopher Park, Arcen's CEO, told us that this would always be a primary feature in their games moving forward.
As 2009 wraps up, we look back at what an incredible year we had for co-op gaming. It started with Resident Evil 5 and ended with Left 4 Dead 2. In between? 150 co-op titles were released for a total of 249 total co-op games across all platforms in 2009.
The holidays are here and most of the Co-Opticrew are enjoying a well deserved break spending time with their families - and hopefully - playing some co-op games with them. We hope everyone else will do the same!
Sam Stone likes the holidays as much as anyone, but there's one thing he likes more - guns. The folks over at Devolver Digital have created a nice holiday treat for Serious Sam HD fans in the form of Carol of the Shells, a short video featuring the famous holiday song Carol of the Bells. Sixteen Sams adorned in Santa Claus attire take on hordes of bad guys all while spreading plenty of Christmas death...er...cheer.
As Nick highlighted in a news post the other day, Steam is currently running their annual holiday sale from now until January 3rd and this means a lot of great co-op title can be snatched up (or gifted, in the true holiday fashion) at a great price. Well for the next 24 hours only, you can pick up Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter at the low, low price of just $9.99, and Left 4 Dead 2 for just $33.49. Picking up both titles rings in at $43.48, the price you'd likely pay, with sales tax, for Left 4 Dead 2 just by itself. That's a lot of co-op possibilities for that price, and Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter by itself could make for an excellent last minute e-stocking stuffer!
This gaming season has been a good one for co-op gamers. There are lots of AAA retail titles that just might be sitting under your Christmas tree, Menorah, or Festivus pole right now. A few inexpensive, small downloadable games featuring co-op have recently become available in Xbox Live's Indie Games service. In between long sessions of those big titles, these little co-op stocking stuffers are the perfect fit. All of them have demos, too, so go ahead and queue them up!
Microsoft has launched a brand new dedicated music store section to Xbox Live featuring all the music downloads for Rock Band, Guitar Hero and the Lips franchises.
Ahh the Holidays! Nothing says a miracle flame, birth of Jesus, and a New Year than killing a bunch of zombies in an free online FPS. This week I decided to see what all the fuss is about in Combat Arms, the aforementioned free online game from Nexon. With the recent addition of a new Fireteam co-op map that featured infected AI and more than 2 million registered players - I had no idea what I was in for.
I�m beginning to wonder who designated 2009 as the year of the side-scrolling martial arts beat-�em-up. With the release of Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao earlier this fall, it�s certainly interesting to see this game pop up so soon afterwards.
Traveler's Tales' has released a demo for LEGO Indiana Jones: The Adventure Continues a month after it's release. Better late than never? Well, we certainly hope so.
The action-RPG has been experiencing a resurgence of late, as evidenced by the well-reviewed Torchlight. Another example of the genre is being developed by indie studio Soldak Entertainment. Din's Curse will follow the Diablo 2 formula for gameplay, but there are some nice innovations that make it stand out from the crowd.
