We're kicking off a great contest today for Section 8: Prejudice - a game we reviewed quite recently and enjoyed. What's up for grabs? We have 5 Section 8 themed prize packs available with two grand prize winners that will be chosen at random.
While Bethesda as a publisher looks to have its biggest year ever for co-op gamers with Brink, Hunted: The Demon's Forge and RAGE - Bethesda's biggest game this year is the one being developed in house. A continuation of their Elder Scrolls saga, Skyrim is set to release on November 11th of this year on the 360, PS3 and PC. It's an expansive and open ended RPG that is the fifth game in a series that started on PCs back in 1994. But despite its PC roots and open ended feel, the Elder Scrolls games have always lacked multiplayer - something fans clamour for with every new game in the series.
This month's 360 co-op night we're jumping into Portal 2's cooperative mode. Players take control of P-Body or Atlus, two Aperature Science testing robots, and run their course through several puzzles that take four portals and plenty of deaths to solve. Want to join up?
It's time once again for a Co-Optimus Community Voice update on this, the third weekend in April. It's been a slow month for blog topics, but the medium is picking up. If you don't write for CCV, don't worry - I'll only cry a little bit. I am loving all of the "other" attention going on there, and some great writers as well! This weeks CCV is addressing the Kane and Lynch series of co-op and profane fame.
Everyone knows that game show Let's Make a Deal, right? Remember how there are three doors for contestants to choose from, with prizes that range from a new car to a wheelbarrow full of dirt? Well, the PC release of Fable III is going to be like that in a way. But no matter which door you choose, the same Fable III goodness is your prize.
You may recall Activision announcing a couple months back that no further DLC would be released for the Guitar Hero franchise. Desperate fans cried out across the interweb, and the powers that be relented, releasing more new songs to download once again. Alas, even the reprieve turned out to be quite brief, and no more DLC is scheduled to be released.
Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.
You'd think there was a major release this past week, by the amount of folks playing the same game this weekend. Valve's masterfull Portal 2 is the most popular game among the staff this weekend, by a large margin. Not even Sub-Zero and Chris Redfield can compete.
New Moon Diver DLC has hit the PSN, assuming you can connect to it. A new character and mode are available now, and new modes are coming soon. This isn't budget busting DLC, either. You may recognize the new character (pictured above). His name is Silence, and you battle against him several times over the course of the original game. For a whopping $0.99 you can pick him up, along with a new Score Attack Mode. The Score Attack Mode stage is called "Flow." It features an ever-scrolling level where players compete for a high score. The mode is single player only, but gained XP carries over to the regular game.
The upcoming third-person shooter, Warhammer 40000: Space Marine, has high aspirations. The video game industry has its fair share of generic "space marines," but 40k enthusiasts will say that they had them first. Orks are threatening the Imperial Forge World. WH40k: Space Marine finds players taking control of a beefy, armored, death machine named Captain Titus. It's your job to killify any and all threats to the Imperium of Man. VG24/7 had a recent interview with WH40k: Space Marine developer, Relic. In the lengthy interview they discuss things such as staying true to 40k lore, going up against Gears of War 3, and the lack of a cover system (Space marines don't need no stinkin' cover system).
It looks like Arrowhead Games has two more pieces of DLC lined up for Magicka after Magicka: Vietnam. Titled Caverns and Marshlands these two challenge maps put players in brand new environments for slaying enemies with their co-op pals. The Caverns map is said to be focused on trolls with an "appetite for wizards" while the Marshlands map is focused on zombies.
The last vignette from Dungeon Siege 3 focuses on one of the earliest revealed characters, Anjali, the Archon. She's a staff-wielding sorceress that can take on a fire elemental form. I had the chance to play through an early level with her and Lucas Montbarron at an Obsidian event a few months ago. The two characters complimented each other nicely. Lucas's strong attacks benefited from Anjali's ranged assault in co-op play.
