Last night Locke and I jumped into the pit...Pit People to be precise. The upcoming turn based strategy game from Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth is a unique take on the tactical rpg genre that combines their famed art style and humor with a simplified and chaotic look at strategy. The game is still in early access on Steam, but we were able to take the two player co-op mode for a spin.
At PAX East 2017, I attended a special press event for Diablo 3 (D3) on the Necromancer. While the Rise of the Necromancer was already announced at BlizzCON 2016, this press event revealed details on the female necromancer model as well as a whole new set of Necromancer skills. I also had the chance to go hands-on with the female Necromancer and he...
According to RawFury's website, their published piece, Kingdom, will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2017.
The Playstation European Blog announced that The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing would be making its way to Playstation 4, come March 1st. This expands the platforms the game can be found on, from Xbox One and PC, to Sony's console.
Killing, My Friend is as fun as it is frantic and Hard-Boiled Software wants to bring the that feeling to consoles with an Xbox One release. In true action film fashion, players are tasked with creating the most over-the-top action sequences in a variety of settings as they fill the screen with bullets and mayhem...and style.
Publisher Starbreeze studio, best known for the successful multiplayer Payday series, as well as the single player indie hit, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, announced March 8th that they will be publishing RAID World War II from developer Lion Game Lion, whose most prominent recent work (as found on their website) was DLC on Payday 2.
The Nintendo Switch still has its talons firmly planted in the Co-Opticrew, but it's proven difficult to wrest our collective interest away from the tactical hijinx permeating Ghost Recon Wildlands. As evidenced by Mike's review, the game looks like it'll be slotting into our plans for more than a few weekends. Who knew dismantling drug cartels could be so fun?
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a game that sort of caught me off guard. After all, a tactical shooter doesn't often collide with an open world game. Though past games were more realistic, Wildlands often has more in common with a game like Mercenaries or Just Cause than its predecessors....
The Nintendo Switch is out in full force, so naturally, games of all shapes and sizes are being announced left and right. A standout in the proverbial flurry, though, has always been the roguelike twin-stick shooter, The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth . It's on just about every platform you can think of at this point, and while its Switch release was probably inevitable, it certainly lends a bit more heft to a system without a ton of available titles.
Styx: Master of Shadows was released in 2014 to somewhat universal critical acclaim. As a fantasy stealth action game, it was fantastic and wholly unique. Fans of the game will be happy to know a sequel is out next week on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Called Styx: Shards of Darkness, players are once again dropped into the leather boots of an assassin troll...and this time they can bring a friend.
The latest in Norse ARPG goodness is just a couple weeks away. Soon enough, you can brave the harsh colds of Niflheim, combat deadly creatures, and engage in sweet blood sacrifices without having to physically do any of that stuff! It's probably for the best, to be honest. I'm a wimp in lower temperatures and probably really bad at gathering blood.
Even Co-Optimus was surprised when it was announced that Mass Effect 3 would have an online co-op mode, but now that it has happened we would expect the same of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Not a huge amount is known about the co-op in Andromeda, but it is coming and also any new DLC maps for the mode will be free.
