A new trailer for the upcoming Assault Heroes 2 has been released. The trailer, entitled "Launch", features mostly gameplay footage, and looks quite impressive. Bigger, badder bosses, on-foot missions, and the ability to steal enemy vehicles are included in the sequel to the original, which was recently reduced in price. ...
To the joys of many, it has been announced that Defend Your Castle, that flash phenomenon, will be coming to Nintendo's Wii Ware service. However, not much was known about the game, other than it would look better than its flash counterpart, which is good. Thankfully, Kotaku has pointed out that Defend Your Castle has a debut trailer. The video sho...
* Robot Customization. * Compelling mechanics (Rage, Rush, Power Traingle). * Special Attacks (push, stun and other unique abilities for each robot). * Robots allowed to fight with 3 weapons at the same time (two ranged and one melee). * 8 different robots. * 20 weapons. * 10 arenas.
Several bits of news have come up as of late regarding the world's loudest co-op game, Rock Band. Joystick reports that a jaw dropping six million songs have been downloaded since the game's release. 6,000,000. To put things into perspective, that is like an album going platinum, 6 times over. By anyone's measure, Rock Band ...
We currently have about 22 unlockable characters in Castle Crashers. Throughout the game you will have the opportunity to add these characters to your arsenal by various different means (was that vague enough).
The UK edition of OXM has a juicy tidbit or two regarding the release of legendary shooter Ikaruga on Xbox Live Arcade. The game was announced long ago, but details regarding release have been unclear. However, in the magazine, Ikaruga for XBLA is reviewed, earning 9 out of 10. The release date is listed as "Available now&quo...
The game had some rather floaty controls that would cause us to do silly things at times, but for the most part, they actually suited this style of play. It's clear that the game is almost specifically designed for co-op play, and you'll get the most out of it by playing through with a buddy. There were countless times during our short play session that we were able to help each other out in different ways. However, the single player seems to be structured in a way that the 'hot-swapping' between characters would be too cumbersome or require too much backtracking. Still, we think that co-op will end up being more enjoyable.
Guitar Hero: On Tour will have local wi-fi co-op, but not much else about it can be confirmed just yet.
The evolution of the Death, Jr. series is taking a rather strange twist. Death, Jr. titles have previously only been available on the PSP, but the latest game is being tricked out and reworked for release on the Wii. While co-op has already been featured in the series, it required a friend with a PSP and a 2nd copy of the game. T...
Siliconera is reporting that a demo of the upcoming Raiden Fighters Aces has appeared on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace. For those unfamiliar with the Raiden Fighters series, the games are vertical shooters with all the vertical shooter standbys, like power-ups, several different types of ships, and two player co-op. The series itself is an off...
If you didn't know, Andre works for Microsoft's product development team. You could say that he has..."an in". And that's a good thing because he was kind enough to dig up some interesting stats about cooperative gameplay on Xbox Live.
