While the previous bromance is over, there's a new one brewing in Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel. At the heart of it all appears to be some gorgeous environments just ripe to be exploded into tiny bits of debris and dust.
Competitive PC gamers may know the MOBA genre well, but they are almost completely foreign to console gamers. One aspect of MOBAs that isn't talked about often is the cooperative modes many of these games offer. Players versus Bots are a big part of training for MOBAs while learning the ins and outs of a game. Monolith, a studio with roots in PC development, is bringing MOBAs to the console using the Lord of the Rings license with Guardians of Middle-Earth and we're diving into it.
Lionhead’s fantasy role-playing game, Fable II, pulled a Houdini and completely vanished from the Xbox Live Marketplace earlier yesterday. For a short time, no one could view the title through either the “Games on Demand” tab or Fable II episodes on both Live and Xbox.com. Luckily, things are back to normal.
We're five weeks into Halo 4's dedicated co-op mode, Spartan Ops, and the missions are starting to surprise us after what was a slow start. New this week are actual failable missions in which the spartans must defend key objectives. The levels themselves are mostly a retread of old, but we do see some vehicle action which always helps keep things fresh. Here's our walkthrough of Episode 5 of Halo 4's Spartan Ops campaign.
Heads up gamers. See that crew of snipers from Far Cry 3's co-op mode up there? I wonder what Leonard, Tisha, Mikhail and Callum are shooting at... Could it be Xbox 360 and PC co-op aficionados? Maybe. You see, Ubisoft Massive will be launching a DLC co-op pack in January, which is awesome. But it's exclusive to the PS3 version of the game, which is lame. (Unless you pick up Far Cry 3 on the PS3, then it's still awesome.)
"There is a cave, boy... a cave... of wonders!" When we first heard about Double Fine's latest game, The Cave, certain members of the staff (mainly, Mike and myself) were ecstatic. Then, Mike got his hands on the game at PAX and was able to fill in some of the details with how the game plays. Since that time, though, we haven't heard too much about The Cave or, indeed, from the The Cave itself. As its release date on XBLA, PC, PSN, and Wii U eShop looms ever closer, a little more background to this whole adventure is revealed as The Cave itself introduces us to some of the cast of characters... And what motivates them to explore its dark depths...
We're headed into the final week of our Child's Play 2012 Charity drive and sitting close to 30% of our goal. What does that mean? For one it means if you have donated you are pretty much guaranteed to win SOMETHING at this point - maybe even that awesome signed Loot Chest Edition of Borderlands 2 you see pictured above. We've got a pretty extensive prize list with plenty of goodies, certainly helping out some sick kids and getting something off that list is worth at least $5.
Guardians of Middle-Earth is out later today on PlayStation Network and tomorrow on Xbox Live Arcade, along with a retail release of the game which includes a season pass. The game is one we've been eyeing up since it came out of nowhere at E3 2012, it's a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game for the console featuring characters from the Lord of the Rings universe.
Base humor has been part of gaming ever since Larry first put on his Leisure Suit. In many ways Serious Sam Double D XXL is just trying to keep on this venerable tradition in the form of a local 2 player co-operative shooter. However, rather than dated and tasteless attempts at sleeping with the opposite sex, Double D is populated with giant gorillas, dinosaurs and guns, guns, guns.
Online magazine, Pure Nintendo, initially posted an “exclusive” announcement stating Rayman Legends’ official release date, which has officially been debunked somewhat by publisher Ubisoft as of today. Co-op gamers will be glad to know that the game will be given an early 2013 release rather than a much later one!
Last month we told you about about the extra content coming to those of you who pre-order Anarchy Reigns, the massive online brawler. If you pre-order the game from Gamestop you'll get access to Bayonetta as a playable character, as well as two new multiplayer modes. Yup, it's another one of those pesky deals exclusive to GameStop. Them's the breaks.
I received my review copy for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Thanksgiving weekend. I was a little sad when I found out that currently the game only supports TCP/IP co-op, mostly because it meant I couldn't try out the co-op until release (I didn't know anyone else that had an early review copy). November 28th rolled around, which meant I could try the co-op... theoretically. Unfortunately, that was not to be, as my press copy was not the same version as the released copy! This took me a few frustrating days to find out (my own fault) as I attempted many work-arounds that didn't work (how could they have, considering the root problem?)
