If you haven't subscribed to PlayStation Plus yet, you're really missing out. Sony has announced that Plus subscribers will be able to download PayDay 2 for free during the month of February. As with all games in the Instant Game Collection, the title will remain playable as long as you stay subscribed to PlayStation Plus.
Looking to save some money this Winter after your heating bill has skyrocketed? Sony has some "flash" deals for you available on digital downloads of full retail titles. There's about a dozen titles on sale including recent releases like Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag on PlayStation 3 and Knack on PlayStation 4. You'll also find Super Motherload and Killzone Shadowfall to round out your PS4 collection.
According to an interview with our friends at Game Informer, the co-op gurus down at Turtle Rock Studios have declared that four players is the ideal co-op experience. Hence why Evolve teams four human controlled hunters up against a death-breathing monstrosity. These people were the original progenitors of Left 4 Dead, which is pretty much up there in the pantheon of must-have co-op experiences, so they probably know a thing or two, right?
Some people worry that with the improvement of online speeds, the days of local co-op are numbered. However, if this was the case why is the 2 player couch co-op mode for Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare a Xbox One exclusive? The next generation is local co-op!
Xbox One launch title Crimson Dragon received a decent update with some exciting new features this week. The 4GB update includes the long awaited multiplayer and co-op modes, as well as an increased difficulty setting.
Last night Mike and Nick streamed some Hammerwatch, the four player co-op dungeon crawler that bears a lot of resemblance to the classic game Gauntlet. What started out as an intended 20 minute romp to celebrate Co-Optimus's 6th birthday, ended up lasting almost an hour and a half as they descended deeper and deeper into the dungeon.
So, Minecraft is doing well. Extremely well. Around six weeks after its debut on the PlayStation 3, Mojang's sandbox game has generated over one million sales. Add that to the well-established PC, Xbox and mobile player base and we've got tens of millions of people cursing at creepers and constructing elaborate mountain villas out of melon blocks.
This week's big Xbox Games Store sale has chopped prices for over two dozen games and game add-ons. Discounts range from 20% off to 75% off, and we're happy to report one of the biggest sales is on a little co-op game called Shank 2!
If there is one thing that is topnotch about PC gaming, it is that you get great bundles at great prices. The latest collection comes from Bundles Stars and only costs $3.99/£2.88. For that you get eight First Person Shooters via Steam, including the 2 player online co-op friendly Zeno Clash II.
The creator of XCOM, Julian Gollop, is now working on reviving his 1985 ZC Spectrum game, known as Chaos: the Battle of Wizards, into a brand new title called Chaos Reborn.
Yo bro. You down to battle some bosses? Forever? For free? Awesome, bro. Awesome. BOSSES FOREVER 2.BRO is a "bro-op" action game on OUYA, PC, and Mac. In local co-op you and a buddy team up to climb a never-ending tower of infinite bosses with tons of different abilities.
In a big step forward for accessibility, Jeffrey “botman” Broome, one of the programmers that worked on Borderlands 2, recently announced the game will receive a colorblind mode in a future patch. The new mode will be available on all platforms and will change things like loot drop colors to make it easier to tell them apart.
