Orion: Dino Beatdown, the co-op-centric first-person dinosaur shooter, debuts on Steam in just a few more days. To help train the next generation of dinosaur hunters, indie developer Spiral Game Studios has released one last video documentary to tease the game before its release. Give it a watch (or simply read on) to find out about the game's worlds and the repitllian beasties that will inhabit them.
After hearing the announcement of the upcoming prequel, God of War: Ascension, we found ourselves looking at a video of a God of War multiplayer mode for the first time and hoping for some co-op love.
Nine years after Max Payne 2, the iconic character is coming back sans the scowl. Rockstar Games is releasing Max Payne 3 next week on the 360, PS3 and PC and with it comes the first time the series features multiplayer. Like the last big Rockstar game, Red Dead Redemption, it appears Max Payne 3 will be adding a co-op mode via DLC shortly after release.
Indie game Nekro has successfully reached its funding goal on Kickstarter, but with less than two days to go, there's still a chance to influence some content in this game. The concept of Nekro is simple - play as an evil necromancer and wreak havoc on the world.
The weekly sales on PSN and XBLA are amongst the highlights of my gaming week. What will appear this time; a selection of co-op friendly titles for next to nothing, or some overpriced DLC reduced to slightly less overpriced? Admittedly some of the weekly sales are less emphatic than others, but do you know what is a bargain? A game that is permanently reduced. This has just happened to Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, now yours for 800 Microsoft Points, or as I like to call it - the price that all download games should be in the first place.
Right on schedule, the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been revealed. The setting? The future. Your arsenal? Lots of toys including quad copters, giant mech like tanks, and of course plenty of guns. Did I mention the horses? Oh yeah - in the future everybody rides horses.
Just two weeks away before Diablo III’s release day, scheduled for May 15th, Blizzard has continued to reveal character class information on their website. Next in the sequence comes the Wizard character class, having yet another epic trailer aimed to get you even more pumped to play
Attention dinosaur lovers/haters. Co-Optimus is following up last week's World Gone Sour contest with a brand new giveaway. This time we're shelling out five copies of the very promising first-person shooter Orion: Dino Beatdown from Spiral Game Studios. Orion launches on Steam this Friday, May 4th and supports 5-player online co-op. We'll have a full co-op review very soon. In the mean time, why not try to win it for free?
Ninja Gaiden 3 has gotten a steady stream of DLC, but until this point there's been very little in the way of co-op content. Now a new content pack is out called the Ultimate Ninja Pack and included in it are two new co-op challenges, two new sets of armor and four new pieces of headgear.
Over the years Xbox Live Arcade has gone through an evolution. While it started as remakes, re-releases, and every so often an original title it’s now evolved into something different. It’s now a service filled with games that aren’t quite big enough for a full retail product. It it feels like XBLA has lost its identity.
I do like a good collection of games; more pleasure for the same price. Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is a prime example of this, not only did you get updated versions of some of the earlier single player outings of the franchise, but also a brand spanking new update of the 4 player co-op Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD. The collection has just been announced for Vita, surely the PSP native Peace Walker would fit seamlessly onto Sony's new handheld? Apparently not, as a certain game is missing...
Well, it's been a slow month for user blogs, but where our community lacks in quantity, they make up in quality. This month in Co-Optimus Community Voice, we asked the community what they thought about Kickstarter projects and their viral popularity these past two months. Only one community member was brave enough to answer the call.
