Continuing to backpedal themselves out of the SimCity debacle, EA is considering to offer players an offline mode in the future. A survey unleashed by Maxis described what could be coming at a later date, but wanted to know what the players wanted first.
Being one of Nintendo’s current flagship titles, it’s no wonder that Pikmin 3 is getting the special treatment it deserves, and only a couple of weeks until launch at that! To celebrate its impending arrival, Pikmin 3 will be available to play at Gamestop next week, allowing gamers to get their hands on this Wii U title sooner than expected.
The summer keeps going and going and going. This week we have some licensed movie games, Serious Sam gets a collection, and Dynasty Warriors spawns another sequel. In awesome news, I saw Pacific Rim over the weekend. It was better than I anticipated, but not as good as I wanted it to be. I hope it does well enough at the box office to warrant a kick-ass Voltron movie. Dare to dream.
Crackdown 1 and Crackdown 2 are some of the most co-op fun I've had this generation of gaming. The open world game gave you the "keys to the city" and a super powered agent to do whatever you wished. It appears that Microsoft has plans for the franchise on Xbox One, with the iconic orb from the game appearing during their Xbox One reveal back in May.
As we told you last week, we've got a brand new website. It's been rewritten from the ground up to better serve your cooperative videogame needs. We have big plans moving forward and we're not done with the improvements, phase 1 was simply laying the groundwork.
Move over Captain Olimar, there is a new crew in town in the form of Alph, Captain Charlie and Brittany. Each of them appears in the upcoming Pikmin 3 and believes they can do the best job in herding, collecting food and sending Pikmin to an untimely and gruesome end. Check out the new trailer to see the threesome in action.
While our focus here at Co-Optimus has been and always will be cooperative video games, from time to time, we cover co-op tabletop game news as well. A hard to find, out of print co-op board game, Wok Star, is in the final hours of a successful campaign on Kickstarter. The initial print run in 2010 sold out quickly, and for the second print, publisher Game Salute took the crowd funding route to get the game into more gamers' hands.
With the multitude of games getting released these days, both from major development studios and independent ones, it's easy for a great game to go under the radar. Such was almost the case for Risk of Rain, an action/adventure platformer with rogue-like elements that supports 4 player local co-op on PC. Fortunately, Matthew Griffin of Yeti Trunk, the developers behind Wanderlust: Rebirth, shot us an email to not only bring the game to our attention, but also let us in on a bit of exciting co-op news. Specifically, that he's working with the game's developers to add online co-op to the game.
Welcome to another edition of Beyond Co-Op, the weekly news round-up where we look at the gaming news around the industry that may or may not necessarily relate to cooperative gaming. It was a fairly quiet week as many gear up for the next Xbox announcement this coming week and E3 a few weeks away - still there's a few tidbits worth mentioning.
Holy crap, we launched a new website! Have you seen it? We're pretty proud of it. You should take the tour. While some of us continue to tweak what we've birthed, we'll also be enjoying some of the gaming backlog we've acquired and avoiding the scorching temperatures of summer. Here's what the Co-Optimus staff is playing this weekend.
You would think that making a game free would be enough to get people to continue playing it, but that's not the case. Happy Wars has continued to be successful because it keeps providing new content and updates. If these don't tickle your fancy, how about a weekend of Double XP?
Who said you couldn't get great video game freebies with your snacks? You may have recalled how Activision made a special set of Skylander figurines available through a promotion with Frito-Lay products. In much the same way, Activision has once again paired with Frito-Lay in order to offer a few limited edition sidekicks for Skylanders Giants.
