Even though I don't play very many of them, I am delighted that "hyper complex space sims," as a genre, exist. There is a dedicated fan base out there who will definitely invest in a product like Masters of Orion, but games of this nature don't necessarily penetrate the market. The only explanation for the genre's existence is...
The latest GTA Online update is now upon us! Players can now create their own races and deathmatch gametypes through this beat creation tool and share them with the world.
Today is a special anniversary in the world of gaming. DOOM, the classic first person shooter franchise created by id Software has turned 20 years old. The game was released in a time and era before the internet was the internet, before you could look up or down in a shooter, and before CD-ROM drives.
Oh how far we've come in the seven years since this site has begun. Co-Op wasn't even considered a major feature for some, barely a bullet on the back of the box. Now? A major AAA studio is hiring a designer who's sole responsibility is to create cooperative gameplay. Naughty Dog, developers of the Uncharted series and The Last of Us have the job posting.
Gangs are no laughing matter; disenfranchised youths fighting over limited resources is a harsh reality for some. However, stick these gangs in a fedora and set it in 20s America and you have the fun 2 player online co-op title Omerta: City of Gangsters. The new DLC for the game, entitled The Japanese Incentive, is coming in early 2014.
Soon, Windows 8 and Windows Phones won't be the only devices to carry Halo: Spartan Assault. 343 Industries finally revealed the release date for the game, coming to Xbox One just before Christmas.
For this last MMO Co-Opportunities of the year, we do some more updates the hotly anticipated Wildstar Online and the Elder Scrolls Online. It feels like we’ve been doing beta updates forever, huh? Happily, we also have the launch announcement of browser-based MMO Eldevin to switch things up! Elder Scrolls Online: Character Progression...
Sometimes it's amazing to just sit back and realize how far we've come with televisions, consoles, and display technology. It wasn't long ago we had to buy something called an RF Adapter just to hook up the latest console to our television. Now? TVs have multiple digital inputs featuring a simple digital cable connection called HDMI. But even that can be topped. Now anything can be beamed through the air thanks to wireless technology. We're living in the future and sometimes it's easy to forget that. Today we're looking at the peerAir Wireless HD Multimedia System.
The LEGO games have built their success on the intellectual property of others, from Harry Potter to The Lord of the Rings and back again. About time they cut out the middle man and made a game from something they created. The LEGO Movie Videogame is that something, but wait; the new trailer has characters from other franchises!
Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly feature for news related to non-cooperative games. Single player, competitive multiplayer, here's the big stories for the past week. Battlefield 4 expansions are put on hold, pro League of Legends streaming is locked down (or are they?), and Steam has a bunch of users... who knew?
You know what decade doesn't have enough games set in it? The 90s. Those were the times, am I right? Enter Clandestine, the newest title from indie developer Logic Artists. A tactical stealth game set in 1996, just five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, you play as a hacker or a field team agent bent on getting to the bottom of an espionage conspiracy.
A few of the staff members have been checking out the Starbound beta. It's a game in the same vein as Minecraft or Terraria, but with a bit more direction. So far we're digging it quite a bit and should be streaming it on Monday. That said it has some of the most amazing music we've heard in a game in a long time. Really, truly, epic stuff. Here's what else is happening this weekend around Co-Optimus HQ.
