The very successful, though single-player title, indie game Spelunky from the PC will be making the much anticipated shift to the consoles. Spelunky is a puzzle platformer that takes place in caves, featuring a spelunker. The title has received a lot of attention, and been recently announced on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. During GDC 2011 a few websites noticed a screens that showed multiple players in the game.
The robot-run AI Apocalypse we imagined probably didn’t look much like Shoot Many Robots, but perhaps that’s a good thing. It’s so different, in fact - you’ll get to decide who the enemy is. There is an online contest being hosted by Shoot Many Robots developer Demiurge Studios called “Design Many Robots” that puts you in the designers street.
In anticipation of GDC we pushed back our new blog topic for March until tomorrow. Because of that, we had a last minute entry in the February blog “My Backlog, Let me show you it.” Just a reminder, tomorrow we’ll be posting a new blog topic for March - and we want to see what you’ve got in our blogs. Let’s take a look at an example of a blog that deserves front page attention.
For Co-Op Casual Friday this week, we turn our heroic gaze to Champions Online, a super-hero MMO that recently adopted the free to play model. Read along as we detail the first adventure of our family's father-son team, which has now been officially dubbed "The Dark Duo".
PAX East is next week and the Co-Opticrew is gearing up for the trip up to Boston. If you're coming, be sure to look for us - we'll be the ones holding hands and skipping merrily through the convention center. In the meantime we'll be playing games...lots and lots of games. Highlighted this weekend are Killzone 3, Dragon Age Origins, and Red Dead Redemption. Epic...totally epic.
There's a new game that just hit closed beta in the free to play browser based market that's caught our eye. It's called Gunshine.net and its from a new company named Supercell that was founded by ex-Remedy developers and invested in by ex-Sony executive Phil Harrison's investment firm.
We just got a handful of new screens for the co-op friendly and impossibly difficult Dark Souls. The screens show off a variety of environments and characters - all clad in medieval style armor and weapons. Some screens show off the co-op action where the players are facing some truly frightening looking creatures of ridiculous size. There's no doubt in my mind this game is going to be difficult - but it may just be incredibly rewarding.
Have you been waiting for the price to drop on a ticket to Albion? Were you waiting for Fable 4 to come out, just so Fable 3 would become more affordable? Amazon has a more timely solution for you. Today and today only Fable 3 is 53% off. You can pick it up for a pittance of $28.06. To sweeten the deal you can pick yourself up an Xbox LIVE 12 Month Gold membership for $39.99. That's 33% off the price a regular Joe would pay. You're not a regular Joe, are you? Heck no! You're a beautiful individual snowflake, and you deserve to be treated that way! You work hard for the money, and we want to treat you right.
As a die-hard sidescrolling shooter fan, when I found out a new Contra game, a prequel to the underrated Genesis title Contra Hard Corps nonetheless, was being developed, I was completely stoked. How does the latest title fare? Read on and find out.
The MLB The Show series is a popular baseball game series for the Playstation, often praised for its high polish and eye for detail. Past installments have only included single-player and multi-player modes, but upcoming MLB 11 The Show will contain a 2-player online or offline co-op mode as well! This mode will have players on the same team where they can choose who is responsible for the different offensive and defensive areas. In the field, there are four different controllable areas players can divy up: pitcher, catcher, infield, and outfield. Pitcher can either be assigned to one player all the time or can alternate between players every inning.
You've gotta love the weekly sales for Xbox Live Arcade Gold members. Well, to be precise, if you have a Gold account, you have to love them, I guess. Generally, the deal of the week is well advertised, but sometimes, games are discounted without much hoopla. That is the case today with a few movie-related games, three of which feature co-op. These hidden deals are Turtles in Time: Reshelled for 400 points (totally worth it), TMNT The Arcade Game for 200 points (definitely worth it), and Star Trek D-A-C for 400 points (probably still not worth it). Both Turtles games are excellent examples of brawlers, and the graphic overhaul on Reshelled is quite nice. The Star Trek title, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired, as you can read about in our review. There's no telling when these deals will expire, so grab them now while you have the chance!
Since it's release a few weeks ago, the co-op action of Magicka has captivated PC gamers. Sitting on the sidelines with a PC on the mend, console gamers like myself have been wondering if we'd ever get our hands on the co-op, spellcasting, fun of Magicka on the consoles.
