Many of our staff members are fans of the physical version of Magic: The Gathering, and we've grown to like the Duels of the Planeswalkers series over the past few releases. Can Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 live up to the solid co-op offerings the series has offered in the past, or will the removal of key features previously available hurt too much? Let's find out.
The team at Red 5 have announced that Firefall's beta has reached 500,000 users. The epic milestone for the free to play shooter/MMO is definitely impressive - and despite the long wait for the game since it was announced, - all of the refinement should make it a solid co-op experience. Red 5 is said to be making "significant" adjustments to several of the core mechanics based feedback from the community during the beta.
Summer is here! In parts of America this has meant a boiling heat wave, in Britain it has meant constant rain and flooding - the usual then. In the world of LittleBigPlanet 2 it means something entirely different. Summer is celebrated in the form of some free DLC for the game. Catch it now as the DLC is on...
Monday Night Combat has received a permanent price drop. The competitive/cooperative third person shooter was going for 1200 MSP ($15), but you can pick it up now, and forever, for 800 MSP ($10). Unless, of course, there's a sale.
Latest in "News Which Shocks No One," yesterday's release of the PC version of Ghost Recon Future Soldier has not gone over well for Ubisoft. The version is currently suffering from a crippling amount of bugs. What kind of bugs, you ask? Well, my friend, they range from the somewhat understandable framerate issues and resolution errors to the facepalm-worthy Xbox 360 buttons being prompted in the interface to the absolutely appalling non-recognition of mouse and WASD controls. Wait, what?
Arcen Games, the masterminds behind A Valley Without Wind have been tweaking the game since April 25th, taking all of the data and feeback that players have been giving them. They have officially released patch 1.1 which changes many things in the game and adds tons of new content, giving you a reason to hop back into the world of Environ.
Spelunky first appeared on the PC back in 2008. It's a puzzle plafromer made up of randomized levels and death is always a whisper away. As players progress through the destuctible environments they'll unlock secrets and other goodies. This July the game will be getting the Xbox Live Arcade port treatment, featuring "new graphics, music, zones, monsters, items, traps, and secrets."
Everyone's favorite* MOBA for the consoles, Awesomenauts, is getting an update to help ensure the game is well and truly balanced for all. Tweaks like this are quite common for a game within this genre, or really games as a whole. After all, any game that involves mutliple characters with various skills may not be quite perfect enough at launch as players will always find ways of using (and exploiting) skills and abilities that developers may not have anticipated during development. Awesomenauts is no exception to this as the bulk of changes being made are just these types of tweaks.
By now you've probably heard that Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is a complete disaster. That's not entirely true. I've been to hell and back, completing the entire story mode and earning an "A" ranking on most of the co-op missions. Is this game a diamond in the rough, or am I some sort of gaming supermasochist? Find out in our Co-Op Review.
Spec-Ops: The Line is out now on the 360, PS3 and PC - but it's still missing a piece that Co-Optimus readers would be most interested in - namely the co-op mode. At E3 2012 we went hands on with it and were quite impressed with what was on display - a gritty, difficult, and tight co-op experience for two players to work through. We were told the content would be available shortly after launch and today 2K Games have put that time frame into perspective.
Premium downloadable content or PDLC is a highly contentious issue amongst gamers.on the one hand you have people who see DLC for a game and either choose to buy it or not buy it. Then there are folks to whom the simple mention of optional downloadable content is like being forced to eat a bag full of black licorice while watching Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill. Pure horror! Yet PDLC is here to stay, as evidenced by stodgy old Nintendo finally embracing it. That's right, New Super Mario Bros. 2 on 3DS will have microtransactions.
The developer responsible for Darkness 2’s and Bioshock 2’s multiplayer gameplay, Digital Extremes, has announced its next PC title, Warframe, as a free-to play third-person shooter. Just like everyone else, we like free things too, so we got curious.
