Are you getting tired of playing 6 hour shallow games? Splash Damage hears you on that, and promises that Brink will be a truly massive game. The single player experience will keep you busy for quite some time with intense story, character animations that promise to deliver that human feel to the game, and of course co-op with incentives for playing together. Splash Damage's CEO Paul Wedgewood had this to say on the game.
A year after Little Big Planet's release on the Playstation 3, the developers Media Molecule have added a hefty patch that will allow for some streamlined online co-op play. First, the connectivity is better, with matchmaking nicely streamlined for better communication and less lag.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is still steaming...and the Xbox Live Arcade version isn't even released yet - but Croteam has officially announced Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is coming to PCs and 360s next year.
If you missed out on Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 earlier today, perhaps you'll want to try to snag the recently released Guitar Hero 5?
The Duke Nukem Facebook Fan page has posted what appears to be a screenshot of something Duke related. The album titled "D-Day Pics" shows one shot in the infamous stadium level. We saw some video footage of this level back when 3D Realms shut down earlier this year, adding to the authenticity of this rumor.
The folks over at Hellforge had an interesting conversation with Diablo III's Lead World Designer, Leonard Boyarksy. There is relatively little information related to gameplay in the interview, but for fans of the intricate lore and storyline of the Diablo saga, it's definitely worth a read. Boyarksy discusses how the random quests are still tied into the main storyline, and also gives some insight into how closely the lore team works with artists and programmers.
Rumor on the street is the next co-op Pixel Junk game is set to hit the PlayStation Network next week. Pixel Junk Shooter is a mix of strategy and action as players descend through caverns filled with lava, water and rock to rescue trapped miners. It's looks a bit like the classic game ChopLifter, except with absolutely stunning animations and visuals.
Sure we had plenty of Black Friday Co-Op deals, but Cyber Monday is the biggest online shopping day of the year.
We've seenz video games infiltrate the armed forces before, be it a Microsoft controller used to pilot a bomb squad robot or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (as seen above), games used as recruitment tools, and even games as training simulators. Soon, we may get a taste of commercialized simulators that are being developed by defense contractors, not completely unlike how America's Army came about.
If you recall the news that Pandemic Studios had been closed with its IPs intact at EA, then this may not come as much of a surprise: a third game in the Mercenaries franchise was under way. What is surprising - or at least interesting - about this revelation is that the game was set to feature four-player co-op and open-world multiplayer. A former employee revealed the embedded pre-alpha trailer for Mercs Inc, which we first saw last week over at hub site Colony of Gamers. By way of damage control, EA formally confirmed the game's existence before the rumor could get too far.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory introduced co-op gamers to the world of teams of super-stealth spies. No longer did we need to infiltrate an enemy compound alone undetected, now we could bring our buddy along for the ride.
