Painkiller: Hell & Damnation has received a fresh batch of premium DLC adding in new maps, news enemies, and a brand new survival mode for you to play with your co-op partner. The maps for survival now have a set progression to them and they also include environmental hazards that you can ensnare enemies in.
Oh, Baldur's Gate. If you've been serious at all about RPGS on the PC over the past 15 years, you've probably at least heard of this classic RPG that set Bioware on its way to becoming a household name. In our review we'll both address what's new in the Enhanced Edition as well as the general gameplay for newcomers to the game.
Call that a bullet wound solider? That is merely a scratch. Back in the day I would be out there glitching all over the place and no one could do anything about it. Today you can be patched up and sent back into the field better than new. So go forth Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and prosper. Check out Read More for the full details of the latest uber-patch for the 360 version of Black Ops 2. Woo-Hah.
We hope that you enjoying your time today with Dungeonland! But if you haven’t picked up the game yet on PC, we want you to have a look at the game’s unique take on traditional dungeon crawling mechanics.
While most of you were busy mining and enchanting away in your block worlds, we finally got word on the patch notes for the upcoming 8th Title Update for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. Don’t worry: there’s no need to start a whole new world this time around.
After a lengthy hiatus, we are back with another video edition of Co-Op Classics. I've been looking forward to featuring this pairing of games for a long time, and as the release of Aliens: Colonial Marines looms, it's finally time. Come celebrate two arcade classics from the golden age of the brawler, all featuring the famous xenomorphs of the Alien movies: Aliens and Alien vs. Predator.
What do we have here? I stop paying attention for a little while to handle some backlog business, and suddenly we have three cooperative games coming out in one week?!?! Is it September already? It's not? FANTASTIC! This week we have a dungeon crawler, a military shooter, and a 6DoF shooter. Let's do this.
Soul Sacrifice finally has an official release date. The four player cooperative game will be available in retailers and downloadable through the PlayStation Network on April 30th. Set in a dark fantasy world, players must sacrifice objects to harness magical spells. The more valuable the item, the more powerful the magic. "Swordmaster's Seedlings" and "Giant's Bones" are good for basic combat, but what happens when you are faced with a truly daunting enemy? Maybe you'll have to sacrifice one of your own limbs, or another player -- maybe even yourself.
100 Episodes, 5 Years. It's been one heck of a ride here on the site and on the podcast. This special episode features the usual co-op discussion, touching on the news, and then several guests.
American McGee has been part of the videogame industry since the 1990s when he worked at id Software on such titles as DOOM II, QUAKE, and QUAKE 2. After a few other stints and a few games later like Alice and Grimm, his studio Spicy Horse is looking to make a splash on the Action RPG market with a game called Akaneiro: Demon Hunters. But there's a catch - to include co-op American needs Kickstarter, we find out why.
Not too long ago, though it certainly seems that way in gaming years, we spoke with indie developer BetaDwarf about their upcoming four-player co-op arena title, FORCED. The basic premise is that you're part of an enslaved people that are forced to compete in battles with the possible hope of surviving and eventually gaining freedom. Taking cues from Diablo, Left 4 Dead, and even Smash TV (in a way), the developers at BetaDwarf were hoping to get some additional Kickstarter funds to help see the game through.
This past weekend, SimCity held a closed beta test for a select group of individuals to test out some very basic features of the game and give EA's server infrastructure a good ol' workout. While the beta didn't feature any of the multiplayer functionality, there was plenty of opportunity to see just how cooperative play is going to work when the title is released on PC on March 5th.
