EA is killing the original Army of Two. No, not Rebecca and Abigail Bates. The other original "Army of Two." The one with Salem and Rios, the bro-iest bros of brohood. Online support for the game will end on August 11th for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. There simply aren't enough players to keep the servers up and running.
343 Industries - the official executor of the Halo franchise - is hard at work on two games of interest. First is Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, complete with Firefight and campaign co-op and set for a November 15th, 2011 release. Following a year later will be Halo 4, a true sequel with no public gameplay or plot information known.
Sony is joining the online pass extravaganza that has joined this generation of gaming in an effort to slow down sales of used games. Like Electronic Arts and THQ, Sony's online pass would consist of a limited one time use code that would enable certain features in a game. If you rent or buy the game pre-owned you'll need to purchase the content for a small fee - usually $10.
Good news, anomalous trichromats! Like Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will have a color blind assist mode. On a personal note, while looking up a fancy way to say "color blind," I stumbled upon some tests on Wikipedia. I couldn't see some stupid number, so bad news for me, I guess.
Footage leaked onto the interwebs the other day of an upcoming iPad 2 game which showed off some impressive visuals. Today, Trendy Entertainment - famous for the Dungeon Defenders titles - have revealed the full title called Afterlife: Ground Zero and released their own video of it in action.
Dead Rising 2: Case West, the downloadable "sequel" to Dead Rising 2 is on sale right now for 50% off on Xbox Live Arcade. The game features a two player online co-op mode with one player as Chuck Greene and the other as Frank West in some zany zombie slaying action. It's a game we reviewed quite well when it was released late last year.
One of our biggest complaints about Microsoft's Kinect peripheral is the huge amount of living room real estate required to play. You need a pretty big area if you want to co-op a game. The Nyko Zoom reduces this required space by up to 40%, so now you can play Dance Central in your cubicle! You know you want to. The three lens design is sleek and simple. Snap the device into place and you're ready to go.
Never in my life did I ever think I’d hear three grown men complain about wanting a pair of shoes more than I heard during a co-op session of Ms. Splosion Man. The game takes the tried and true formula from the first Splosion Man title, adds a ton of polish to itself, and gives it a unique twist.
Good work, survivors! Last Wednesday, Valve had an interesting proposal for the Left 4 Dead 2 community. If 20,000 people could earn the "Stream Crosser" achievement by the end of Sunday, July 10th, Valve would go ahead and release the Dead Air campaign a little early. It took players less than 24 hours. Much less. It actually took about four and a half hours for gamers to hit the benchmark. (Way to skew the curve, guys.)
The latest Resistance 3 Video Developer Diary focuses on two important components for a co-op game: enemy variety and enemy behavior. Sure, it's fun to adventure or run-and-gun with a friend, but it becomes so much more intense and immersive when you can encounter a wide variety of enemies, or when the enemies play smart (or cheap, depending on your mood at the time).
Tickets which should be of interest to anyone loopy enough for all things Call of Duty will go on sale next Tuesday, July 19th. These tickets grant access to the first ever Call of Duty XP (short for "experience"), held in Los Angeles, California on September 02nd and 03rd.
Some new details have emerged for F1 2011's co-op campaign. It's rare enough to find a racing game with co-op, but F1 2011 has something in store for online and local racers. Yes, you can play a whole season with a teammate both online or locally via split screen. Now you can get your "Shake and Bake" on in the same room. Just remember to let your teammate win sometimes. If you don't, he may just steal your woman, your house, and all your sponsorships. Then you'll end up hanging out with Bill Lumbergh, who will force you to drive blindfolded while fighting a damn mountain lion, all in a desperate attempt to get your confidence back. Or not. Maybe that only happens in NASCAR.
