Like hands on a clock, it seems that the Humble Indie Bundles come round and round, providing Co-Optimus readers with great co-op titles on the cheap (the bundle, not the clocks). This time you can wrestle with Guacamelee and pay a little over the average to get Monaco: What's Yours is Mine for a steal.
Once again, my main co-op partner in crime, Richie, and I decided to switch things up from our usual routine and give a completely different game a go for once (we seldom break away from GTA Online or Awesomenauts these days). Since we couldn't decide on what to play, we tried to come to find a game that would satisfy both our likings. After much deliberation, we landed on an old favorite: Perfect Dark HD, mainly because we had the game sitting in our backlog for quite some time. Though I still don't know what happened to my original N64 cartridge of Perfect Dark, we both had downloaded the XBLA version (developed by 4J Studios) for an incredibly low price.
The Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition team is putting in work on the new updates for their highly popular game. As revealed on Twitter, 4J Studios is busily gearing up for the next patch which, in addition to various gameplay tweaks, will include plenty of features which have so far only ever seen the light of day on the PC. If you've been pining for an excuse to hop back into the blocky world of Minecraft on the Xbox, look no further.
Despite living north of the wall in Canada, Locke learned a valuable life lesson on the latest Co-Opticast - you should shovel the roof if there's too much snow on it. Outside home ownership tips from the crew we chat about Wild Arms, Titanfall, Hawken, and Bravely Default. After that it's onto news and the first listener voicemail in a LONG TIME.
A mere thirteen years after its original release on the Sega Saturn, the two-player shmup Ikaruga blazes an alternating black and white trail onto Steam today for $9.99. Now, those underprivileged folks who never knew the magic of the Saturn can squeal with glee at the high flying, polarity-based gameplay Ikaruga offers up. "What's a Sega Saturn?" is also an acceptable response.
In a move purists would faint at the mere idea of, League of Legends is putting more M in your MOBA. Starting the 20th of this month, the boundary pushers at Riot are incorporating a new game mode which shatters the conventional five on five experience and bumps the player count up to six participants per team. I know what you're thinking. If they tamper with the tried and true MOBA formula, what other sort of values are they willing to cast aside in the name of "progress"?
Techland, the developers of the upcoming 4 player co-op hack-and-slash-a-thon Hellraid, recently spent some time brushing up on the medieval art of "hitting people with sharp things." The animators and programmers met up with ancient weapons expert ARMA-PL in an effort to provide Hellraid's combat with a greater sense of realism. "Realism" here describes what they learned about medieval weaponry, and not practicing to combat hordes of undead and demonic sorcerers.
Nothing says end of an era more than a massive sale aimed at getting customers to buy up games they won't need once they have moved onto the One or PS4. Call me cynical, but I don't mind when the games are this cheap. This week sees a sale per day and a weekly sale on XBL, with up to 93% off games such as Portal 2, D&D: Daggerdale, Fable III and many others.
A tie-in game to the upcoming film release of "Transformers: Age of Extinction" called, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark has been announced by Activision and Hasbro. In it, players may find the need to team up once again for a returning, fan-favorite co-op mode.
Locke, Mike and Nick continue their adventures through Trine 2 - the co-op puzzle platformer out on PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox 360. Every time we fire up the game to begin a stream it always starts the same way - "wow, this is gorgeous!" Perhaps the game's graphics are, but sometimes our brute force physics puzzle solving isn't exactly what I'd call beautiful.
We previously reported the Sir Hammerlock Versus the Son of Crawmerax DLC would be coming out sometime in April, and now we have an exact date, along with gameplay and some tasty screens. The final dlc in the Headhunter series for Borderlands 2 will release on April 15 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, and on April 16 for PS3 in Europe. Gearbox is saying it's the largest headhunter pack yet, and it will cost $2.99/€2.99/£2.39. You can watch the 18 minute gameplay here:
Fans of Earth Defense Force 2025 on Facebook may have already taken advantage of this deal, but if you're into killing giant bugs and haven't like them on Facebook yet, now is the time. By liking the page and sharing their Newscast, you'll receive a code for the Special Ops Mission Pack, free.
