Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming! We like to take a look around the industry and see what news and links may interest you in the world of gaming.
Good Co-Op, Bad Co-Op - a tale of two friends who love playing games together. The man who gives the best upsidedown hugs, Sunflower4000 and the love wizard Locke have put their differences aside and teamed up cooperatively in a battle against fate.
Fall of the Samurai, the expansion to Total War: Shogun 2, released earlier this week. What may have escaped your notice, however, is the huge patch that was applied on the same day. While it was considered a Fall of the Samurai patch, most of the changes/additions applied to the base Shogun 2 as well. Highlights include improved AI (and drastically reduced AI turn time) as well as a whopping 22 new battle maps! A large number of fixes and unit balance tweaks were rolled out as well.
I'm sensing a trend with our weekends. Command Shepard is a very busy person thanks to the Co-Opticrew. We'll be saving the galaxy anyway we can in the game, especially with bonus experience and a co-op night tonight. Other than that there's not much else in the way of variety in what the staff is playing, a spattered few titles here and there and of course...shootin those robots.
In Kinect Rush, you and a friend can run, jump, swim, fly, and drive through a collection of levels based on five beloved Pixar franchises. But do the Kinect controls tie everything together or just tire you out?
After some hopeful anticipation for an improved Epic Mickey experience, we finally get a closer look at what Epic Mickey: The Power of Two has to offer via an official game trailer.
Last weekend's XP event for Mass Effect 3 was a large success, with over 3 million Brutes decimated in the game's four player co-op mode. It seems Bioware was so proud of the turnout, they decided to hold another event just in time for our Co-Op Night tonight on Xbox 360.
Co-Op mother fuuuu....errr....sorry. After watching the latest co-op trailer for Ghost Recon Future Soldier, one with commentary from the MEGA 64 folks, I suddenly feel a little more frat like. It's ok though, because it surely sounds like they are enjoying the four player co-op campaign offered by the game. If anything, the trailer reminds us just how much fun we can have playing co-op with our friends.
There are many cultural differences between America and the UK. You say tomato, I speak properly, but there is no need to call the whole thing off. In fact, as a Brit I am willing to embrace any obscure US based phenomenon if it means more co-op gaming. This is the case with World Gone Sour an upcoming local 2 player co-op based on the Sour Patch Kids IP I have never heard of. The game is coming to PSN on the 10th April ($4.99) and XBLA on the 11th (400MSPs). Check out the new story trailer and screens.
When the folks at Xbox asked us to co-host a Mass Effect 3 co-op night, we couldn't refuse. This game has dominated my friends list all month, and I've heard it's co-op mode is exactly what everyone was hoping for. Mass Effect, plus friends. Sounds like a great formula for fun to me!
If you were wondering what split screen would look like in Starhawk, there you have it. LightBox Interactive will be making the most out of their precious split screen real estate while trying to decrease the stretch of their aspect ratio. After playing the beta, I have to say that a full mini-map is a welcome sight. Anything would be better than the vaccuum of black space I've seen in other split screen layouts. I'm looking at you, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Fear 3, Lost Planet 2, and Resident Evil 5; the list goes on.
After months of patiently waiting for some sort of news of its Xbox 360 debut, Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson, Larry Hryb, has finally given us some form of relief and announced the long awaited Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition release date, also including a handful of other upcoming XBLA titles along with it.
