During last night's Game Awards, Microsoft and 343 Industries showed off a new trailer for the upcoming Halo Wars 2 that put a little more focus on the Brute, Atriox, you'll be going up against in the campaign. They also made a surprise announcement that Halo Wars: Definitive Edition will be releasing on PC and Xbox One, and you can get it early if you pre-order the Ultimate Edition of the sequel.
Dauntless is an online co-op action RPG where up to 4 players work together to hunt down ferocious beasts called Behemoths. It sounds a lot like Monster Hunter, and with talent from Bio-Ware, Riot, Capcom, and Blizzard feeding into new developer Phoenix Labs, there's a lot of potential.
It's been promised for some time and now the PlayStation 4 version of ARK: Survival Evolved will finally be available to play on December 6. This is not the final version of the game, as the title is still in Early Access on Steam and Game Preview on Xbox One, but if you've been waiting for it to make it to this platform, then you only have to wait a few more days.
In case you missed it last week, our co-op review of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 went up. We both had fun playing it, even if the Parallel Quests and Expert Missions can get a bit repetitive. If, like us, you're looking for something new to do, then you're in luck! Later this month the game will receive some free and paid DLC that will add new quests, new teachers, and more.
Good news if you enjoy slow motion death cams and also live in "the land down under." EB Games is offering a Collector's Edition for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Sniper Elite 4 for just $AUD129.95. No word on whether this will be making its way to any other territories, so if you're outside of Australia and really interested in picking it up, then you certainly can, but expect a pretty big shipping fee.
The other LEGO game that Traveller's Tales has been working on, LEGO Worlds, will see its full debut soon. This sandbox title has been in Steam Early Access (and still is, actually) since summer 2015, but it will get upgraded to the final version and be available not only on PC but PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 24, 2017.
Ubisoft recently confirmed that support and new content would continue for another year for Rainbow 6 Siege, and it looks like next year's content will be similar in at least some ways to this year's. The biggest thing for the co-op fans will be the addition of eight new operators so you have more choices for putting together your ideal "Terrorist Hunt" team.
a vAvalanche Studios is working with Expansive Worlds, which is a subsidiary of the former, to put out the next title in their theHunter series. theHunter: Call of the Wild allows up to eight players to team up to track and hunt wild game in an expansive open-world environment. It's like Evolve, minus the whole mechanic of your healer constantly jetpacking into a wall.
The last piece of paid DLC for Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide added three new campaign maps set within Castle Drachenfels, and the next one will do the same. Shifting once again from the town of Ubersreik to the snow-covered peaks of the Grey Mountains, "Karak Azgaraz" puts you and your stalwart companions in the hallowed halls of this Dwarven fortress where you must make your way to the top and light the beacon.
After the mode got leaked earlier this month, details are starting to get out there about what Mass Effect: Andromeda's co-op will actually entail. While it will share much in common with the "Galaxy at War" mode in Mass Effect 3, there are some improvements in the works.
While it might be over three years old at this point, Saints Row IV is still going strong on the PC. The modding community has been providing new weapons, outfits, and more for the title for quite some time, and now, that content can get added to the game directly from Steam as Workshop integration is available.
The fierce battle between local and online co-op gamers has waged for eons. There are those that like to sit in their pants and play online and those that like to sit in their pants next to three friends and play offline. Well rip off your kecks and settle in for a video all about the 4 player local co-op game Unit 4.
