The indie team at Cybertron Design Studios wants tower defense to be epic once again. Towers of Altrac will feature 3D environments, weather effects, day and night cycles, online co-op for up to four players, and an impressive 600 enemy types with 57 upgradeable towers to deploy.
The PlayStation 3 had a solid list of downloadable co-op games, one of which was a title from Super Stardust HD creator called Dead Nation. Having cut their chops with the PlayStation 4 launch of Resogun, Housemarque moved on to polish up their previous PlayStation Network title.
All hail the modern gaming era! Once upon a time when your game was broken, that was it - use it as a coaster. However, with the dawn of the interwebs we can now be bombarded on a monthly basis with updates, tweaks and fiddles. Speaking of which, here are the details for the latest Call of Duty: Ghosts update that is out across most platforms.
This game in particular not only caught our eye with its beautiful art style, but with its simple cooperative mechanics shown through the gameplay. Since Ubisoft's Child of Light isn't too far off from release, a new trailer was uploaded to showcase the game; a special co-op trailer this time!
You may recall us featuring an upcoming action-RPG style game a few months back called Second Chance Heroes. The game was looking for a PC audience and release through Steam's Greenlight program, which it still is. In the meantime, though, the development team at Rocket City Studios has decided to give the game a new home on iOS devices. Same great historical figure kicking zombie butt action, now in the palm of your hand.
Now through March 10th you can take advantage of some deals on Xbox Live for classic co-op favorites, and also snag some single player titles that might tickle your fancy.
This week, Tally and Marc played the excellent ARPG Torchlight II together on PC. While they enjoyed the experience, despite connection issues and random drop-ins, how did their characters find it? For this installment of This Week in Co-Op, we explore the experience from the vantage point of two marauders: Excelsia and DjinniMan.
The LEGO games have glommed onto a number of big-name franchises over the past decade, including The Lord of the Rings. A release for The Hobbit was basically a "no duh" thing, but the game missed an opportunity for a simultaneous launch with the second movie. Now, the official release date has finally been set for LEGO The Hobbit: April 8th in North America and April 11th in Europe.
As the final update for the Xbox LIVE Arcade version went up last week, the BattleBlock Theater community braced themselves for a big announcement from The Behemoth, and rightfully so! Today, they finally revealed that their game will be coming to Steam in the near future.
Diablo 3 has received a major update in preperation for the March 25th launch of the Reaper of Souls expansion pack. Blizzard has dubbed the patch Loot 2.0, which greatly revamps the game's loot system to bring better more relevant loot drops, tweaks the crafting and paragon system, and much more.
It is March and Spring is in the air. What better way to celebrate than prancing through the daffodils thinking of the free co-op game you will be getting, if you have Games with Gold. From 16th March, Dungeon Defenders will be free on Xbox 360.
As was announced at last year's Gamescom event, PS4 will be getting its own version of N++ sometime in the future. Up until now, however, we didn't know if it would feature a co-op mode in this version at all. Luckily for all of us, it will!
