Ever since last November when "The Island of Dr. Ned" was given a release date, it seems that Gearbox Software has been committed to providing all the gamers out there with as many opportunities as possible to explore and enjoy the world of Borderlands.  This commitment even extends to being mindful of what their community wants to see in their DLC - like an increase in level caps.  Yesterday, designer Jason "haTts" Reiss announced on the Gearbox forums that the next DLC will increase the level cap and, that like so much of their DLC to date, "it's awesome."

Square-Enix is out and about promoting their upcoming sequel to Kane and Lynch, and there's plenty of coverage all over the net. 

For the past few weeks we've been touting Death by Cube as an 8 player co-op title.  Released this past Wednesday I was eager to check it out and see what cooperative offerings it had.  Sadly it looks like we were mistaken and Death by Cube features no cooperative play.  All online modes are either deathmatch or team based versus.

This past week has been a very busy one for my family, but over the weekend we managed to squeeze in some Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.  For our first play through, we played as Iron Man's side.  For the achievement's sake, and to experience the other side of the war, we decided to continue the game on a tougher difficulty, rather than loading our pre-choice save game. 

After a surprising call by a gaming analyst promising the end of Borderlands before it had a chance, the game blew expectations out of the water. How does it happen that a game with such a grim prediction tops over 1 million copies sold? IGN has a theory, and we can't help but agree with it. Borderlands is a game made for gamers, not made to draw in new gamers.

Thankfully there is no buttock showing over the web cam, but the recent ESRB rating of Lost Planet 2 suggests that perhaps this 4 player co-op game available later this year will have more than you bargained for! As well as hinting at some of the environments and weapons available it also suggests that some of the character models are less clad than others. Whilst male heroes will be dressed in the latest trends in armour, the female population may not be so fortunate having to go on a bug hunt wearing only “a piece of cloth hanging down the front and back portions of her body; this outfit tends to reveal her buttocks.”

This month the Battlefield Report takes a look at a myriad of games that have one thing in common: you have to shoot something. Unfortunately, it's not always that easy. We list the most common game functions that help you adjust your aim.

As a man there's one thing I've always wanted to do - put on a dress and makeup and go out and kill some zombies.  Wait, scratch that.  I, um... meant to say that a new bonus playable  character has been added to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition in the co-op Mercenaries Reunion mode.

Yesterday I joked that the Uncharted series hadn't yet seen a PSP port, and that surely an announcement was forthcoming. Scott from In Game Chat and Mike were quick to call me out, but despite our clowning around Naughty Dog is hard at work on new material for Uncharted fans.

When Iron Lore studios closed its doors back in 2008, we were sad to hear the news.  After all, Titan Quest, their action/RPG title fashioned in the same vein as Diablo, was a great co-op game and nicely filled that action/RPG void that Diablo II had left in our hearts since the late '90s.  So when Crate Entertainment was formed earlier last year, we couldn't wait to see what that group would crank out.  We had to wait another year, but Crate Entertainment has now announced their new action/RPG title: Grim Dawn.

It appears that something wicked walks the Borderlands, and evil comes in the form of... hacked bobble heads!  Modded bobble heads full of cash are hacking players' shields and weapons, giving them an unfair advantage compared to legit players.  Worst of all, it can happen unknowingly to the innocent, as related by longtime Co-Optimus user Shazoo in our forums...

Sega has just announced that the upcoming Turn Based and Real-Time strategy game, Napoleon Total War, will feature some new multiplayer campaign modes - including co-op play.  This mode of play was a result of the successful beta for Empire Total War which featured similar modes.