I gotta give the industry credit - they just won't let Duke die. To recap it's been some time since 3D Realms folded up development on Duke Nukem Forever and Take 2 games took the rights back. We haven't heard anything from the purported Duke Nukem D-Day game and the last bit of media we got from DNF showed off an Xbox 360 version of the game.
If you thought Activision couldn't out do the night vision goggles from Modern Warfare 2 - think again. Today they've announced the Hardened and Prestige Editions of Call of Duty: Black Ops. The cream of the crop Prestige Edition comes with a remote controlled surveillance vehicle inspired by the RC-XD from the game. It has a range of up to 200 feet and contains a fully-functioning remote camera that transmits both video and audio to the handset. Sounds perfect for those in home remote pest control situations - though you'll have to supply your own explosive C4.
Light gun shooters may be one of the most memorable and unique forms of co-op games out there. Everyone has their favorites whether it's Time Crisis, House of the Dead or Virtua Cop. Time Crisis came out in 1995 and instantly became an arcade hit thanks to its unique cover mechanic.
Apologies for the late posting of this - but the latest Co-Opticast is finally here! In this episode we discuss Torchlight 2, leaked DLC, delayed features and more. We wrap it up with a discussion on whether or not adding co-op to a game makes development harder.
Co-Optimus does not condone hitting police officers with oversized guitars
For three weeks or more I’ve been working on the first two Gears of War campaigns by myself. It’s not that I haven’t had offers to play them in co-op from the gracious community; my schedule is too crazy to do anything but plow through small segments at a time. So it was to my exclusive benefit when Jason was compelled by the bossman to arrange some game time with yours truly.
What do you get when you cross tower defense, game shows, and shooters? You get Monday Night Combat - an over the top 3rd person shooter with an incredibly deep competitive multiplayer mode and a four player co-op survival mode. Robots and more robots try to steal your money. Can you stop them?
After the biggest DLC leak to hit the net in 3 days happened, we finally have an official confirmation on the next Borderlands content. Titled Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution, players will be taking on an army of Claptraps as they revolt against the Hyperion Corporation. Our four vault hunters must join sides with the company that tried to kill them or risk being annihilated by dozens of new robotic and hybrid robotic enemies - including the deadly Ninja Assassin Claptrap.
It's been over six months since we've heard much from Crate Entertainment on Grim Dawn, their Action/RPG that's a spiritual successor to Titan Quest. If you haven't kept up with the official site you'd be missing out on some new screenshots from the game - and the latest batch is looking quite impressive.
How appropriate that a game based on using three unique heroes would naturally want to take the leap into the third dimension! A new patch has been released for the PC version of Trine. Lucky owners of the Nvidia 3D Vision setup will now be able to slash, levitate, and grapple their way through all manner of puzzling obstacles in three dimensional glory. I'm not a huge fan of the whole 3D renaissance, but certainly the lovely graphics of Trine would be good candidates for such treatment.
Valkyria Chronicles was released for the Playstation 3 a couple years ago, enhancing the turn based RPG formula with 3rd person action elements and an impressive visual style. The game is thought rather highly of; I know our own resident artist, Mike, is a big fan. Coming later this month is Valkyria Chronicles II, which will be released for the PS3's smaller, more portable sibling, the PSP.
Now here's an odd one for you. There's a glitch in the full and demo version of Modern Warfare 2, though to be fair, the glitch is really with SNK's Xbox Live Arcade titles - where you get free access to the full version of trial titles from SNK that are installed on your hard drive. This includes all of SNK's games, including the co-op enabled titles like Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug XX.
