The latest video for Brink is showing off the game's pre-order bonuses from Gamestop - namely the DOOM themed items.  These include two shirts, a tattoo, two hats, and two gun skins all themed after id's classic co-op shooter franchise.  We can only hope that these items become premium DLC at some point so everyone can enjoy the awesomeness.  Other pre-order goodies include Fallout 3, Psycho and Spec-Ops with the Fallout 3 themed items being exclusive to BestBuy.

Section 8: Prejudice launches next week on Xbox Live Arcade and on PC on May 4th.  The one thing thats been touted since the game's announcement has been just how much content is in the package for its $15 price tag.  With a single player campaign, online versus mode, and four player co-op mode - its hard to disagree.  Co-Optimus has been hands on with the title numerous times, including the final XBLA copy, and we think folks are going to be pleasantly surprised.

I was quite pleased by my time spent playing Chime Super Deluxe. The overall effect of the music and the puzzles is very relaxing, and you might find yourself blissfully zoning out for a while. Chime Super Deluxe is a nice little game that fills its niche very well.

Did you get Dungeon Hunter Alliance?  Yeah, we know it's awesome.  Have you played online yet?  Yep, we know it's not working.  Two Co-Optimus editors got together last night for some dungeon crawling action, but were distraught to find that existing characters couldn't join up online. There's a bug hindering online co-op. Established characters could join public games, but it appeared that they could not join a game they were invited to.  For example: I couldn't bring my level 5 Rogue into Nick's game, and he couldn't bring his level 6 Warrior into mine.  The screen would simply flash a message saying we couldn't join the game or the host game didn't exist anymore.  (We could bring a newly created character into the game, but that's just stupid.)  

Portal 2 is coming next week, or is it?  According to countless sources, (we'll just call them "The Internets") we may be getting a heaping helping of GLaDOS this Friday.  How is this possible?  Try and keep up:  On April 1st, Valve released a collection of independent games called "The Potato Sack" on Steam.  Each of these games has been "infected" with a form of Portal 2 content.  Long story short, there are a ton of clues and hints that point to Portal 2 coming early, that is, if enough people play the "Potato Sack" indie games.

When Global Agenda launched a bit over a year ago (a game we thought had decent co-opability), Hi-Rez Studios originally planned for it to be a subscription-based game. This later changed when they decided they wanted to maintain a non-subscription based model where players had access to everything so long as they had purchased a retail version of the game.The subscription model never saw the light of day. The game also had a generous trial where people wanting to try out the game could have a fairly extensive experience for free with the usual limitations (e.g. level caps, chat restrictions, etc.).

The people working on The Lord of the Rings: War in the North have not been shy about courting an M rating. This latest combat trailer has plenty of decapitations and dismemberments.  The new title from Snowblind Studios will elaborate on the Northern Campaign mentioned in Tolkien's books.  While this game won't focus on the Fellowship, it will cover new heroes of Middle-Earth.  Will gamers appreciate the Coy and Vance versions of their favorite heroes?  We think so.  We really enjoyed our time with the game at PAX East.  Which just goes to show that it doesn't matter which character kills the orcs and trolls, what matters is that we get to kill them.  Game violence is like ketchup.  It makes everything better.  Check out the following trailer and see for yourself.

The Streets of Rage Remake fan project we told you about last week has been shut down by Sega's legal department.  According to the game's official forums, "While this issue is being resolved, please do not upload the game for others to download. Any links posted on this site will be removed. Thank you.."  Of course, the cat is already out of the bag - so the proposed "damage" is already done for SEGA.  

Housemarque's next co-op title after Dead Nation is called Outland.  The two player co-op action platformer sports a unique art style set in a mythical world.  The game puts players in control of of a man who is trying to bridge the world between its ancient past and possible destruction.

How many missiles is considered overkill?

I am Joust’s co-op partner.

If you're a PlayStation 3 owner, a PlayStation Plus member, and if you never quite caught on to one of the most fun tactical first-person shooters available this generation...then you need to hit the craps tables right now, because Lady Luck is smiling!