Left 4 Dead's first co-op campaign addition has been released today, about six weeks before the game's first sequel is set to be released. Titled Crash Course, the DLC is a four player co-op campaign and versus mode all rolled into one. It takes place between the Mercy Hospital mission and Death Toll as the survivors helicopter crashes after rescue.
The weather is getting colder, the trees are changing color, and baseball season is coming to an end. That can mean only one thing...HOCKEY! EA Sports is back with their latest NHL title, but does it live up to the expectations we have for its co-op mode?
We've got a nifty little update for you regarding LittleBIGPlanet, recently released in a Game of the Year edition. First of all, Sony is giving away free codes that allow you to download the Norse Mythology pack for the game. Should be fun to recreate "What's Opera, Doc?" in LittleBIGPlanet form. (What, I'm the only one who had that idea?)
With another week comes another deal for Xbox Live Gold members. This week's offering is for music game fans, offering a few Guitar Hero World Tour tracks at a 25% discount. Pick them up at just 120 points for some head banging goodness.
Gearbox has officially announced that Borderlands will make its way to PC digital distribution platform Steam when the game is released on October 26th. Along with that they've announced a few unique features for the PC version of the game.
We're only a little over a month away from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's release, yet we still don't know too much regarding the game's two player co-op mode called Spec-Ops. Community manager Robert Bowling decided to answer some user questions via Twitter and there's some new information leaking out regarding this mode.
Obscure: The Aftermath hits the PlayStation Portable this week, and while we've seen the game on numerous other platforms, there's something interesting about this version. Obscure joins the ranks of one of the rare portable titles that actually supports drop-in/drop-out cooperative play through the game's story mode.
Alienware was busy at the Tokyo Game show this week, announcing a new mobile version of their M17x gaming laptop called the M15x. The 15" model sports many of the same features as its bigger brother, sacrificing a second video card, some ports, and screen size. That's not to say it can't hold its own, as the laptop is the first one to support Intel's new Core i7 processor. The laptop starts at a $1499 price tag.
If there was one thing holding Rock Band 2 back from being the perfect music game, it would have to be the lack of support for wireless microphones. A patch has just been released that fixes this problem, allowing rockers to use the Lips microphones (also recently released seperately) in a fully wireless environment. We're pleased with the addition of this feature, but curious as to why it took so long. After all, wireless mic support was announced last year!
A new iteration of one of the top co-op franchises on any system was released this week. We're talking, of course, of Halo 3 ODST. The game that started it all was Halo: Combat Evolved for the original Xbox. Previous-gen consoles are fair game for this column, so let's take a look at the game that spawned what many consider to be the defining FPS series.
If the Co-Optimus staff had an office together, I'm pretty sure it would be filled with the sounds of ODST marines shooting/grenading/rocketing/hammering Brutes and Grunts right about now. You see, we kind of dig it.
