So PAX East isn't even here and GDC is a few weeks away, but you're still clamoring for some news from an upcoming gaming convention. You crave the next big announcement, you need to know the next awesome co-op feature, and you challenge the industry to wow you with something innovative.
One of the biggest gripes that many co-op fans have with otherwise excellent co-op games is that you can only play cooperatively with friends online. This is no good if you like the warmth of another human being and want to play games on the same TV. The latest news from Capcom should help appease this sociable sort as they confirm in Japanese game magazine Famitsu that Lost Planet 2 will have splitscreen co-op.
Short and sweet - we've got four new screenshots of the eight player co-op action title Brink. Developed by Splash Damage and published by Bethesda, Brink looks to be a big hitter for co-op gamers when it launches this fall on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
A Borderlands update has added 250 more GamerScore to the game, bringing it's total up to 1500 points. The achievements will be added with the Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC and they confirm a few things that have been rumored for some time.
Today, we conclude our look at the shape of band-centric games to come. In part one, we identified the qualities that the current band-centric games all share. Now, we'll take these traits and see how some of the biggest acts of all time stack up. Which bands will have their own video game?
One of my all time favorite crazy games is Typing of the Dead, a game that blends House of the Dead with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Yes, it's crazy - and it's crazy addictive for geeks like myself. Developer Epicenter Games looks to release a spiritual sequel to the genre, with a game that combines Guitar Hero style gameplay with House of the Dead style action. Enter Rock of the Dead.
Fairytale Fights gets its first DLC on PSN tomorrow, February 11th. The game, as you might recall, is a brutal hack-n-slash featuring all of the fairytale icons of your childhood dismembering each other in extremely bloody ways.
You may not know Greg Canessa, but Xbox 360 owners are probably using something he created everyday. Canessa has had his hand in creating many things for Microsoft like achievements, match making and Xbox Live Arcade before moving onto Pop Cap Games for a brief stay. Now with Blizzard, Canessa is the projector director for the upcoming Battle.net update which will see plenty of enhanced features for StarCraft 2 and eventually Diablo 3.
As much as I enjoyed undertaking 4 player co-op assassinations in Tenchu Z, it had more flaws than a Dubai super skyscraper. Assassin's Creed 2 is the current leader in the silent, but deadly, genre of the stealth 'em up, but it was a solidly solo experience. Great news; latest rumors suggest that a new game in the franchise (let us call it Assassin's Creed 3) will have a co-op mode.
I have a Google Android-powered phone, so I don't get in on some of the cool apps and games like Eliminate. I see the iPhone and Android phones as, say...Pinky and the Brain. One gets all the love, while the other bides his time. Perhaps global domination will come somewhere down the line, but in the meantime one of them gets to have some fun. Egad!
You may recall past rumors of a new Ghost Recon game, rumors that we pretty much jumped at. We can't help it: twelve player co-op...four-player splitscreen online and locally...this is GRAW 2's legacy, and we can't help but drool over the prospects of yet more good tactical co-op action.
Diablo III has been teasing us for awhile now. A few screenshots here, an enemy description there, Blizzard toys with our emotions and gives us just enough information so we don't fall into despair over whether we'll actually hold this game in our hands. Well, today Blizzard supplied us with another drop in the bucket labeled "Things We'll See in Diablo III." Yes, Virginia, there is a female monk in the Diablo III universe.
