@#$%! Epic has stopped production on a Bulletstorm sequel. Developer People Can Fly were working on a follow-up to the ribald shooter before Epic bossmen moved them to a new project. We know that the game didn't meet sales expectations, even though it was widely praised by critics. The game failed to hit projected numbers, despite including early access to the Gears of War 3 beta.
Torchlight 2 was supposed to see the light of day last year, but we were told to just go play some other awesome games while Runic continues to make Torchlight 2 awesome. So here we are a month away from the biggest PC release in years, that would be Diablo 3, and there's still no official word on Torchlight 2's status.
Incoming Capcom news! Lost Planet 3 was recently revealed. The follow-up to the excellent co-op adventure, Lost Planet 2, has a shiny new trailer you can check out below. I won't go into details on the video here. You can see all the ice, snow, and Akrids for yourself. I will say that the trailer has a very single player vibe, and from the details given at Capcom-Unity, the game apparently follows suit.
Sometimes it fun being the bad guy. That's why we're playing Payday: The Heist on PS3 starting at 8PM Central tomorrow, April 12th. Bring your best clown mask and head on over to the event's thread in the forums. Leave your PSN ID in that thread and find other friends to play with. Hope you have fun!
Time Burton's Alice in Wonderland may not be a super good film script-wise, but I guess it did a pretty good job of capturing the look of Lewis Caroll's classic book. Nobody may have been crying for it, but LittleBigPlanet 2 owners can now play as those difficult-to-connect-with characters, thanks to the 'Alice in Wonderland Costume Pack.'
One of Namco Bandai's worst-kept secrets has been confirmed. The Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition is coming to PC. And it's bringing a lot more than just a few bosses. It has cooperative matchmaking, people! COOPERATIVE MATCHMAKING!!!
Let's face it, you haven't been dying enough in your videogames lately. Thankfully Rising Star Games is preparing to fix all that by publishing CAVE's seminal bullet hell shoot-em-up Akai Katana here in the US. To celebrate, they've released a new trailer that shows off just how hectic the action gets (and even mentions local co-op)!
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is the follow up to Steel Battalion, a mech sim best known for its ridiculous controller peripheral. It was announced way back in 2010. We haven't covered it because Capcom claimed the game did not have co-op. A Microsoft rep demoing the game even denied co-op support at last weekend's PAX East. I guess things can change in a few days. It turns out SB: HA will support four player online co-op. Great. Now I have to attempt to bring the community (myself included) up to speed.
I was skeptikcal Bioware announced that Mass Effect 3 was going to have a co-op mode. As information trickled out to the masses, I drew conclusions that it was going to be a tacked-on horde mode rip-off that was added to the game in order to fill a checkbox requirement. I was being selfish, I didn’t want anything to sour my experience thus far in my wonderful space opera that I have been journeying through for the past five years. Having the Galactic Readiness level correlate to your multiplayer progress and allowing it to alter your single player ending was an ingenious way to force me to dip into the multiplayer even before I had finished the game. Well played Bioware, well played.
At PAX East, I had the chance to be walked and talked through the upcoming D&D Online expansion, Menace of the Underdark (MotU). As would be expected of a DDO expansion, MotU is story-driven. A fissure has opened up right in the middle of the capital city in Eberron which leads to other D&D realms, including the worlds of the Underdark and the Forgotten Realms. The Spinner of Shadows, Lolth’s agent in the DDO universe, is behind all this madness. Players will travel through four huge areas (the Demonweb, the Underdark, Evening Star, and King’s Forest) as a hero from another world, trying to unravel why the drow are invading the town of Evening Star and the nature of “the thread of the weave.”
After what seems like a half dozen video game conferences, I finally got to get my hands on Firefall's PvE experience - instead of the versus gameplay that was always on display at previous events. The good news is, despite the game being in closed beta for months and months, it appears the free to play game should hit a more open beta in the coming weeks.
Formerly a Wii-exclusive title, Resident Evil Chronicles HD brings back both Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles onto one game, giving you the action packed, rail-shooter awesomeness of two for the price of one.
