This Week in Co-Op makes its return as Nick and Jason take to the island of Banoi only to discover it's become over run with the undead. Like any good hollywood movie, what follows is an account of their epic adventure through Dead Island.
We haven't heard much on Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City since we got our hands on the game at E3 back in June. Despite the radio silence, Capcom confirmed to Kotaku today that the game is still on track for a "Winter" release in North America.
The thought of strapping yourself to the back of a mythical beast may sound fun, but most of those stories involve death, destruction and more than their fair share of turning people into stone. If, like me, you prefer to keep your magic animal riding strictly to Kinect, then you are in luck. The spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon, Project Draco, has announced 3 player online co-op.
Blizzard has sent out a limited number of beta invites this evening for Diablo 3. It seems mostly press, media and a select few of lucky individuals got the invites, but this is the beginning of the game's beta ramp up. Over time Blizzard will surely open it up for more players. The beta used an installer similar to World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and allowed us to play after installing around 700MB of the almost 2GB total installation. From the little we played we learned there's full four player campaign co-op play with Battle.net support for friends.
Oh good! Another Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombie Lab video. The last video was pretty gory, but it was missing something... I can't quite put my finger on it... ah, yes, shock-induced projectile blood vomiting. Now it's a party. Watch your mashed potatoes. This video is pushing the CoD: Black Ops "Rezurrection" map pack, which happens to be the co-op-iest of all the map packs. The DLC offers four classic maps along with the all-new Moon level.
Do you know what we need more of? If you said cover-based third-person shooters featuring blue locator lights and wicked bayonets, but with a twist, boy, have I got a game for you! Inversion features all of the above, plus funky gravity mechanics! We've been talking about Inversion for a while now, and the game seems promising. This new teaser doesn't offer up much new information, but it looks cool.
F1 2011 is one of the few titles brave enough to come out on the same day as Gears of War 3. It probably helps that they are going for a totally different audience. F1 2011 will take you through the Formula One season. These guys turn left and right. The launch trailer is full of those awesome slo-mo racing shots that are always so close to convincing me to buy a racing game. And then I realize that 99% of my time will be spent sitting in the driver's seat, wondering where everyone else went. Man, I am awful at racing games...
Easily one of the year's most anticipated games, Gears of War 3 has finally touched down on store shelves. How much do we like it? We tell you in 1,621 words.
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is coming to DSi Ware next week on September 28th. The game will be completely free for a limited time, almost 5 months in total, until February 20th 2012. While the original GameBoy Advanced / Gamecube title required link cables between the systems to play the four player co-op mode, the new game will allow for wireless LAN play between Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL systems.
You should just F*king run to Amazon right now to get in on this F.E.A.R. 3 deal. For the next 2 hours, that's 9AM Eastern until 11AM Eastern, you can snag the game for just $19.99 on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or PC.
Gears of War 3 is out today on the Xbox 360. Our review will be up this morning, but most likely, you've already got plans to buy it - don't you? Don't worry, we won't judge. The Gears of War series have been a solid co-op experience through and through, with both campaign and Horde Mode co-op. Gears 2 set the bar for it's co-op gameplay and even included more content for the co-op player in the form of DLC. So it should come as no surprise that Gears of War 3 will continue the DLC trend.
The original Peace Walker was one of the best co-op games on the PSP, but many full console fans never got the chance to play the game. Hurray to Konami, as they have officially announced that the upcoming HD collection of MGS games will include the 4 player co-op ready Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD. Now details have been released explaining why owners of the standard definition version of the game should think about upgrading.
