Tuesday morning I took the train down to the Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue to check out Namco Bandai’s roster of upcoming games. The appointment granted me access to go hands-on with ten or so games, but only two had co-op: Inversion and Tales of Graces F. That was completely fine by me, as I spent my entire hour or so there playing those two and talking to the reps about them.
This may not exactly be co-op news, but Sony's latest ad campaign for the PlayStation 3, called Long Live Play, is certainly worth watching. Not to give too much away, but the idea is how a player impacts the lives of the characters they play in modern day games.
Space Channel 5: Part 2 has hit Xbox Live Arcade and PSN today. The original game only saw the light of day on the Dreamcast in America after the system was already "dead." Instead the title showed up on the PlayStation 2 in a special edition packaging.
11th October 2011 is the date of the latest zombie uprising in the form of Frank West's return in Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. To celebrate Capcom have released a gory launch trailer; off the record, on the QT, but not very hush hush.
In the midst of the Great Gaming Avalanche of 2011, two of Co-Optimus’s intrepid staff members took some time out of their ridiculously busy schedules to blast through Gears of War 3’s Beast Mode. It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it!
Today we have the third Dungeon Defenders developer diary for your viewing pleasure. We've covered the basics and build phases in previous entries. That's a nice appetizer, but where's the main course? Get your steak knives ready, because here comes the meat! Today we're showing you the combat phase of the game. This is where the magic happens, people! It's co-operative tower defense mayhem at it's finest! Look at all the colors! It's beautiful! To further Zen your experience, we follow that up with a clip featuring the mighty Monk's melee and magic mastery.
Four-player co-op title Rayman: Origins has a lot of competition this year. Releasing this November 15th, it has to contend with the usual holiday lineup. For a cartoony side-scroller the outlook is bleak.
Near is the far out feature that will allow PS Vita owners to play co-op with one another. Sony have released a new video that gives us a taste of what the Vita has to offer and even provides a diagram explaining Near backed by some funky music.
RAGE is out now on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC with a two player co-op mode called Legends of the Wastelands - you can check out our review of the game right here. To celebrate the release we're running a contest, giving away one copy of the game on the platform of your choice along with a digital strategy guide supplied by Prima Games. The guide covers single players, multiplayer and the co-op modes, and you can read a bit about the creation process of it over at the BethBlog.
All of this Dark Souls and Rage talk is starting to desensitize me. Time for a little something for the children. Ah, here we go; Disney Universe is coming to a console near you on October 25th! This LittleBigPlanet - ahem, homage - will feature many of your favorite Disney and Pixar characters and locations. Four local co-op buddies will outfit their character with one of over 40 costumes, each with a "specific tool that changes and grows in power as players adventure through the game." I smell a platformer!
Savvy Co-Optimus readers took note yesterday when Payday: The Heist was conspicuously missing from our weekly co-op release alert. (Psyclops was especially devastated.) We touched on this in the comments section, but here we're making it officially official. Payday: The Heist has been delayed until later this month. An exact date wasn't given, but we do expect to have our Payday before November.
We were told when Resistance 3 was still in the works that Playstation 3 games with some form of online/multiplayer aspect would likely require a "Online Pass" in order to access this content. It's been confirmed by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) in a statement to Destructoid yesterday that everybody's favorite treasure hunter will also require one for the upcoming Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. What's more, he may not be the only one...
