A new pay what you want indie bundle has hit the streets, and this one is packing not one but two co-op games. The Indie Royale Mash Bundle features five titles in all, including Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise and Guns of Icarus Online, the former a brawler offering two player local co-op and the latter a steampunk airship combat game with four player online co-op.
Sony Computer Entertainment of America recently announced the winners of the 2013 PSN Gamer's Choice Awards, ranking PlayStation Network games from the previous year across ten different categories. We'd be lying if we said it was a surprise to see thatgamecompany's Journey topping the user-voted list, strutting away with both Best PSN Exclusive Game and Best Indie Game. Everybody loves them some co-op, right?
Well this year surely escalated quickly. The shortest month of the year saw a solid chunk of co-op releases and a boatload of news as well. With seven co-op reviews and over a dozen co-op releases, several features, and plenty of other goodies I wouldn't blame you if you missed some of the goodness of February 2013. Here's some of what you may have missed this month.
In 2009, Star Trek’s reboot onto the big screen has certainly given nerds like us something to drool over. Once we heard that a co-op game was being developed right alongside the success of the movie, we knew we could have a real winner here. Many new Star Trek screenshots have surfaced recently of Kirk and Spock working together to save the galaxy, with an old enemy we can hardly recognize.
The End is closer than we thought! No, not the end of our real life world, but in Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition’s finale mission. 4J Studios has been working non-stop to integrate some newly added features to The End that are totally exclusive to the XBLA version.
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army is available for download right freak'n now. If you like sniping and you hate zombies, especially Nazi zombies who have been organized into some kind of fighting force --let's call it an army, a "Nazi Zombie Army," if you will-- then this is the game for you. Now I have no idea where Hitler is getting all these zombies. I'm pretty sure I blew the head off of every Nazi soldier on the western front in my initial playthrough of Sniper Elite V2. He must get these guys wholesale.
Monster Hunter 3:Ultimate is coming out in less than a month for the Wii U and the 3DS. You may have read in our previous news coverage that Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate for the Wii U would be playable only in your home region. Well, it seems that the folks over at Capcom Unity have been listening to fan demands and are deciding to add two very nice features to the Wii U version of the game.
Over the years I've reviewed, worn, listened, and tried dozens upon dozens of gaming headsets. They've all had one thing in common - they were designed for gaming and communication first and audio second. That's not to say any of these headsets sounded bad - the Astro A30s still are still my go to headsets I use almost daily. But the latest headsets I've been testing are different - they were designed with audio in mind first. In fact the V-Moda Crossfade M-100 stereo headsets were designed "by the community" for both their weight, feel, and audio tuning.
There will be more to Sacred Citadel than meets the eye. When we first played the side-scrolling brawler at PAX, I astutely noted that we "pretty much just smashed buttons and killed dudes," but RPG elements like loot and leveling will play more of a roll than I initially thought. Three players will be able to choose from four different character classes, each with their own special abilities.
You may have remembered in the middle of last year, June to be exact, when LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes was released. It came out for virtually every console at the time, including an Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, PC, Playstation Vita, and 3DS version. The iterations of the game that featured the most content to explore were the console versions. Well, Warner Bros. Interactive has announced that they will be releasing the same game for the Wii U this spring, at least in Europe. We expect a North American release to follow suit.
The Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale continues today with 50%-75% discounts on several Resident Evil games. Half of them feature co-op, oh, happy day! Last year's release of Resident Evil 6 (2-player local or online co-op) is discounted down to $20, as well as Resident Evil 5 (2-player local or online co-op) down to $10 and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (4-player online co-op) down to $20.
First, the good news: A Virus Named TOM will be making its way to PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Mobile devices (Xperia) this summer. The bad news is that co-op is looking unlikely for the Vita edition, though developer Misfits Attics is hopeful something can be worked out for the tablet and phone versions. Even without co-op, the portable releases will come with new levels and some new features, so there's no reason to be too bummed out.
