Everyone who wants to play X-Men Arcade next week step forward! Not so fast, PlayStation 3 owners. The PS3 faithful will have to wait to get their old school mutant brawl on. X-Men Arcade will release next week, December 15th for Xbox LIVE Arcade. The game is slated for a February release for the PlayStation Network.
Trine 2 is still a few months away. We've brought you screens and video from E3, and the fantastic news of the game's multiplatform release. Gamereactor.eu has some new screens to make the wait a little less painful. The first Trine was both a commercial and critical success. It originated on PC and made it to the PSN. Unfortunately, it's Xbox LIVE production came to a halt. Luckily, the sequel will be coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in 2011. Also, the game will feature online co-op, which was absent from the first.
The Total War series has been in the business of combining turn-based strategy and real-time strategy action for over ten years. A recent addition to the series has been full campaign co-op (found in Napoleon Total War and the upcoming Shogun 2: Total War), a phrase we here at Co-optimus find truly delectable. Many of our readers, however, may be missing out on this series as it been almost entirely exclusive to the PC. For those of you who enjoy strategy games but aren't into PC gaming, hope may be on the horizon. Developer Creative Assembly says they are not opposed to the idea of bringing Total War to consoles, iPad, and/or Facebook.
Little Big Planet's PlayStation Move compatible spin-off, Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, will be available for free download to PlayStation Plus subscribers. According to Eurogamer.com, the game will be available to Plus users a week before the game's release, which is December 15th. Let's see here, the 15th, minus a week, correct for wind, carry the one... That's today!
Insomniac have released a handful of concept art shots for the upcoming two player co-op shooter, Resistance 3. While we never see our two new characters together, we do get a great sense of the atmosphere the game is going to convey in a war tattered world in the 1950s.
Your movement-based co-op Christmas may be in jeopardy. If you are expecting to give or receive a Kinect this holiday season, you best get on it. According to Technolog on MSNBC.com, retailers could be running out of their supply of Kinects. The article mentions how some industry analysts report that news of a shortage could just be retailers trying to drum up demand.
EA has brought the boom-shaka-laka back in NBA Jam, a recreation of the 90s arcade classic. With modern players, updated graphics, online play, and plenty of funk - NBA Jam breaks the mold by providing fun before sim. We dive into the 2 player co-op action and come out on fire with our review.
It was only last week that a new Ghostbusters game was revealed, a top down shooter for Xbox Live, PSN and PC slated for a spring release next year. Sporting four player co-op play the game would be a continuation of last years Ghostbusters game, though this time, all the players would be their own character.
In a turn, some may say for the worse, Mike and Nick spend a good chunk of the podcast talking about World of Warcraft, specifically the Cataclysm expansion pack which releases today. Fret not Co-Optiheads! There's plenty of other PC and Console co-op news discussed including the latest info on co-op DLC, new co-op games, and much...much more.
Spelunker HD is a remake of the original Spelunker, a punishing platformer with catchy tunes, challenging gameplay, and tons of levels. Spelunker HD has been available in Japan for well over a year now. The game has finally made the trip stateside. Was it worth the wait?
Who doesn't like a good action/rpg hybrid? Well, probably a good many folks, but the genre is uber-popular anyway. We've covered a nice example of the genre, Soldak Entertainment's Din's Curse, for a good while now. The game boasts a staggering 141 different combinations of classes, randomly generated towns and dungeons, and has no hard limit for the amount of simultaneous co-op players! These features were among the reasons we gave the game a very good review earlier this year.
