The Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 character list continues to grow, this time adding Deadpools occasional partner in crime, Cable. Cable will join Carnage in the latest DLC Pack. We're going to call this the "C-pack," and pretend it stands for "Co-op."
Among the many Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 rumors that we've sifted through in the last several months, the prospect of an optional third-person perspective has only come up once that I remember, and not in a plausible context. In the opinion of a last-gen SOCOM and Star Wars Battlefront fan, the option to swap to third-person in a Modern Warfare game would be a pretty great addition.
After what seemed like ages, Borderlands finally hit consoles last week. Promises of four player co-op with millions of weapons filled our heads. We spent the better part of last week in the world of Pandora, and now it's time to weigh in.
Borderlands (PC) - Borderlands hits the PC with four player online co-op TODAY. Millions of weapons, four character classes, and a boatload of quest await you in this beautiful RPS.
It's time for another Xbox 360 co-op night, and this month we're heading to the Borderlands. Find out how you can join up on Thursday, October 29th. To celebrate - we're giving away one copy of the game!
Activision and Valve have announced a partnership that requires Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to utilize Valve's Steamworks platform. This means any version of the game, both retail and digital, will require Valve's Steam application to be installed.
Along with the launch of Windows 7 last week, Microsoft launched another huge initiative - retail stores. Much like Apple does with their stores, Microsoft wants users to have a one stop shop for everything under the MS brand including PC and Xbox video games. In fact, you can actually bring your Xbox into one for service should you find yourself with one of those dreaded errors.
If you've got Left 4 Dead 2 preordered for the PC, you can now fire up Steam and preload the files getting yourself ready for the zombie slaughter. It all begins on Tuesday, October 27th. We strongly advise pre-loading, that way there's no need to wait for the demo to download on Tuesday.
If you read our hands on impressions of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the PSP from PAX this year, you'd know we were surprised with not only how polished the game looked, but how Rockstar managed to adapt the Nintendo DS stylus controls to the PSP's analog stick. After playing the final build of the game for a few hours I'm happy to report everything still holds true...mostly.
Finding the earliest example of a cooperative video game has long been a quest of mine. In this column, we've covered some of the oldest and most important co-op games. Mario Bros., from 1982, features co-op exactly as we define it here at Co-Optimus. Joust had a form of co-op, too, and it was released a few months before Mario Bros. Today, we look at an even earlier classic game with cooperative elements: Space Invaders II.
Ok, so maybe only a few of the staff are playing Borderlands, but I can guarantee you the rest wishes they were.
