Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. As soon as you hear the familiar scream of the headless kamikaze enemies from the Serious Sam universe you know what comes next - kaboom. This staple enemy has been a thorn in Sam's side throughout the series and now we have our first glimpse at its third iteration in Serious Sam 3: BFE.
Kotaku has let the cat out of the bag on Modern Warfare 3 - and in this case - the cat is wielding an M16A4 with red dot attachment...and it's shooting puppies. What Kotaku has on their hands, and what they decided to leak and print for the world, is the rumored entire plot, characters, maps, weapons, and locations of Modern Warfare 3. Most likely these details were leaked by former Infinity Ward employees that have since moved on - making the details and concept art well over a year old. So as accurate as some of it is, according to Infinity Ward Communications Directory Robert Bowling - "some still accurate, some not. To avoid spoiling the experience, I'd wait for the real reveal."
Remember when zombies were cool? I'm not talking early-to-mid 2000 cool, like when The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z were fun little literary distractions. Nor when games like Dead Rising and movies like the Dawn of the Dead remake were breathing life back into the soon to be over-exploited genre. I talking Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead on VHS, and (at the time) hard to find copies of The Evil Dead 1 and 2, plus horrible foreign films with the word "Zombie" misspelled. Remember when zombies were cool, because no one else thought they were? No? Me neither.
A while ago I posted an article about the Dark Souls Collector's Edition--What's that? That was yesterday? Are you sure? I thought I put that up months ago...having a kid is hard... Anyway, in that article I listed Dark Souls as having 2 player online co-op. A longtime member of Co-Optimus, Psyclops, pointed out that one could clearly see 3 player co-op in the trailers. I immediately went looking for this alleged co-op footage, and found this gem, posted by our brilliant resident foreigner, Sam. It features a teeny-tiny glimpse of what might be 3 player co-op. I blinked while watching it, so there's no way to be sure. Could Psyclops be wrong?
A couple of weeks ago we gave you guys the heads-up that SEGA is doing an HD remake of action-RPG Guardian Heroes for Xbox Live Arcade, a game that was originally exclusive to the Sega Saturn. Now we have some additional details about what will set the remake apart, besides the vague term "enhanced graphics" (and yes, you can play with the original graphics enabled if you wish via "Saturn Mode"). SEGA has even provided some side-by-side comparison shots.
That's what I'm talking about! Barry Burton is back, baby! The magnum-wielding STARS agent will be playable in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. If you're not familiar with Barry's awesomeness, then either you haven't played the first Resident Evil, or you haven't stumbled upon a montage of "master of unlocking" and "Jill sandwich" jokes during one of your trips through the internet. Barry has some of the greatest bad lines in video game voice acting history. Go ahead and take a look here if you don't believe me. I'll wait.
Publisher Aksys Games has just released the Cave developed SHMUP called Deathsmiles on Xbox Live. The full game download will set you back $30 and features two player online and local co-op play.
Now that the PlayStation Network is up and churning along nicely for most of the world - Sony has announced its "Welcome Back" program. The program is designed to get back in the good graces of gamers who were without PSN for 3 weeks and who may have possibly had their personal information gleaned from Sony's servers.
Super Street Fighter 5's bonus level takes an undead turn
Okay, show of hands. When Red Faction: Armageddon announced co-op, how many of you sighed and said: "It's about time!" I know I did, and I'm glad the series finally made that leap. I feel I may have actually finished Red Faction: Guerilla if I had played with a friend, what with the group of rogues that have been present since - well, the first Red Faction. With the goal of improving the series then, that Volition Inc has explored the realm of co-op.
While Steam traditionally has had weekend deals on any of the games on its service, Valve seems to have decided that it hasn't sucked enough money out of our wallets. Starting today the service will offer Daily Deals on its PC download service. You can always check the Steam front page or follow them on Twitter or Facebook to get the deal as soon as it goes live.
The Dark Souls Collector's Edition has been revealed. It will contain an art book, a mini-strategy guide, behind-the-scenes videos, and a downloadable version of the soundtrack. All of this will be packaged in a slick metal case. The cost to you? $59.99, if you pre-order it. That's right, you can get all of this for the normal retail price of the game. I took a trip to Amazon and found that if you have already pre-ordered Dark Souls, your order will be updated to the Collector's Edition. The best part? "No action is required to receive this upgrade on existing pre-orders." Yup, if you have already pre-ordered Dark Souls, you can get your lazy on and do absolutely nothing and you will still get the Collector's Edition upgrade. Check out the link here for the Xbox 360 version, and here for the PS3 version. If you haven't ordered yet, you can use the links and help support Co-Optimus!
