Rayman Legends launched on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this week and with it came a next gen launch trailer. Originally set for February 25, gamers got a surprise when it was announced the title would be coming a week early.
The Xbox One version of Halo:Spartan Assault has received an update. Xbox One players starting up the twin-stick shooter set in the Halo universe will be prompted to download the update. The update is mainly concerned with stability issues and various bugs. There are no new features here, just a presumably improved overall game experience. One issue addressed by the patch that concerns co-op fans fixes Campaign medals showing up in co-op mode. Personally, I keep hoping for a patch to add in local co-op; I'd be all over a twin stick Halo shooter I could play with my kids on one screen.
Indie development studio Indus3 is working on a game that features Asteroids like game play, but updated for the modern era. It features some incredibly slick visuals, co-op game play, and a modern soundtrack while still doing a few other new things that make it its own thing. Coming as no surprise, Atari - who still owns the rights to the Asteroids name, has asked them to rename the upcoming arcade game.
Really Slick's first game, Retrobooster, is a cave-flyer, survival shooter that returns to the days of gaming yore where flying around in space meant you had to be conscious of pesky things like physics and gravity. So we dusted off our piloting skills and took it out for a spin....
The Guns of Icarus franchise has had a strange relationship with co-op. We first reviewed it way back and found the co-op a little limited. Fast forward to 2014 and Muse Games are only now doing something about it as a new Co-Op Mode Expansion comes to the game.
New figures featuring characters from the mega popular Disney TV series, Phineas and Ferb, will be coming to Disney Infinity soon! This will complete the entire cast of characters for the game and unlock a super special item for avid fans.
The once veritable abundance of twin-stick shooters has slacked off a bit since Geometry Wars first hit the scene. That's not to say there haven't been some great ones released, but they're getting fewer and far between. Fortunately, there's another gem on the way that combines twin-stick shooting and cooperative gameplay with an unlikely element: rogue-like.
Think you have what it takes to stabilize an entire sector of the galaxy, no matter the cost? Drox Operative pushed its way through Greenlight and is now featured on Steam proper. The charming (though incredibly deep) space sim clocks in at $19.99 regularly, though it's going for a cool $9.99 until February 25th.
Ryse: Son of Rome is receiving great honor from the gods in the form of some sizeable DLC. The Mars’ Chosen Pack features a new co-op Survival Mode, new maps, and a new Legionary character skin.
Like hands on a clock, it seems that the Humble Indie Bundles come round and round, providing Co-Optimus readers with great co-op titles on the cheap (the bundle, not the clocks). This time you can wrestle with Guacamelee and pay a little over the average to get Monaco: What's Yours is Mine for a steal.
Once again, my main co-op partner in crime, Richie, and I decided to switch things up from our usual routine and give a completely different game a go for once (we seldom break away from GTA Online or Awesomenauts these days). Since we couldn't decide on what to play, we tried to come to find a game that would satisfy both our likings. After much deliberation, we landed on an old favorite: Perfect Dark HD, mainly because we had the game sitting in our backlog for quite some time. Though I still don't know what happened to my original N64 cartridge of Perfect Dark, we both had downloaded the XBLA version (developed by 4J Studios) for an incredibly low price.
The Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition team is putting in work on the new updates for their highly popular game. As revealed on Twitter, 4J Studios is busily gearing up for the next patch which, in addition to various gameplay tweaks, will include plenty of features which have so far only ever seen the light of day on the PC. If you've been pining for an excuse to hop back into the blocky world of Minecraft on the Xbox, look no further.
