Crushing robot hugs for everyone!

WWFWD?  We're about to find out.  Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is coming to our gaming systems this October.  We'll be replaying much of Dead Rising 2 with doughy photojournalist Frank West.  He's no X Games reject like Mr. Chuck "Fancy Pants" Greene.  Insert a stupid joke about inserting an even stupider joke about covering wars here.  Screw wars!  He takes pictures of zombie erotica, dammit!  The game will feature new combo weapons, the camera PP system from Dead Rising, new missions, characters, and areas.  The latest video features about seven seconds of new game footage, but it's fun all the same.  I should note that since the game is not a full sequel, it will only cost $39.99.  But I'm not going to.

We've had our eyes on Bodycount for quite some time now with promises of co-op trickled every step of the way.  But it wasn't until now, about a month before the game's release, that we've finally gotten details as to exactly what co-op will entail.

I imagine that Death would have a solitary lifestyle when brandishing two massive scythes

This new trailer for Renegade Ops leaves little to be desired.  Two player local co-op? Check.  Four player online co-op? Check.  Dynamic split screen? Check.  Loads of explodin'? Double check.  The only thing we see missing is a local co-op with simultaneous online support, but we haven't seen anything to rule that out, either.  This latest video features the dynamic split screen in all of it's dynamic diagonal glory as well as the four player online co-op.  And explosions.  Lots and lots of explosions.  

We've seen a lot of videos for Anarchy Reigns.  A lot of videos.  Each has had a wild, over the top feel.  This latest trailer focuses on the story of the game, which looks to take itself a little too seriously.  It seems way out of place, considering the character pieces we've already seen.  When I played the game at E3 I was a little underwhelmed with the gameplay.  Luckily, the game doesn't release until January of 2012, so they have time to work out the kinks.  Check out the video and let us know what you think.  Does it gel with the characters, or does it seem a little out of place?

Trine's knight had his uses, but if I'm going to be blatently honest, I would only switch to him in one of three scenarios: I had jumped into a close quarters ambush, I absolutely had to block something like traps, or if he was the last man standing on my team. It's not that he was a bad asset to the team, but he was slower than the other two characters, he had to be in melee range, and lord knows he sunk like a stone when he tried to swim.

The summer is a traditionally slow time for videogames, publishers are readying their big releases for the lucrative fall holiday season. But the growing digital market has afforded them the opportunity to take advantage of the lull in releases and push out some truly great titles.

Amazon's Deal of the Day today is on the 8 player co-op shooter Brink.  It's a game we're pretty big fans of around Co-Optimus HQ - and one we gave a pretty favorable review to as well.  

As we’ve said before, the arcade version of Double Dragon was a hugely influential co-op beat-em-up. It set the standard by which all subsequent “belt-scrollers” were judged, from Final Fight to TMNT. Naturally Double Dragon received a sequel, Double Dragon II: The Revenge. That game is now coming to Xbox Live Arcade courtesy of Korean developer Gravity Co, Ltd. and publisher Barunson Creative Co. Ltd.

Back off, this exclusive PlayStation Home tattoo and watch set cost me $15

Today we have the opening cinematic from Starhawk, the spiritual successor to the multiplayer-only Warhawk. Starhawk differs from its 2007 predecessor in several ways, two of them being the inclusion of a single player campaign and a 4 player online co-op mode.  You can see an overview of the game here.  While today's video may be short on gameplay, you can definitely get a vibe for the game world.  It's like Firefly meets Section 8 and then they mixed in some toxic blue Rift poison for good measure.