Has your copy of Magicka been crashing lately? Do your spells not have that zip, or zap? Does is seem like there has been a spell of stuttering cast on your frame rate? Never fear, an shiny new update is here. Steam has just released a title update that fixes many issues in the game. We appreciate it, because we liked Magicka a lot, giving it a 4.5 out 5 in our Co-Op Review. Read on to see what problems have been remedied.
Gamers can get an early look at Gears of War 3 this spring. The public beta will launch mid-April and those of you who purchased the "Epic Edition" of Bulletstorm have a guaranteed slot. This will be a competitive affair, no co-op modes (Horde and Beast) will be available, but gamers can still get a taste for the new weaponry There will be three versus modes on four new maps. The available modes are 5v5 Deathmatch, Capture the Leader, and King of the Hill. Two of the maps have already been selected. Fans can go to the Gears 3 Facebook page to vote on the remaining two.
We've got a few tidbits of Fable 3 info today - both items I'm pretty shocked we haven't seen sooner.
As you play Tales from Space: About a Blob, the blob gets filled with a crazy assortment of things, and this is a good description of the game itself. It uses many different ideas, and manages to combine them together fairly well, but there's something slightly messy about it at the same time.
Left 4 Dead did a lot of things very right. One of those things is creating a campaign of movie posters to represent each scenario the four survivors, Zoey, Bill, Frances and Lewis had to endure. The movie posters were also applied to DLC that came later, and the sequel - Left 4 Dead 2. Some of the original concept posters have surfaced for the original survivors, and some of the art or situations may look familiar.
There's a new sheriff in town. Make that sheriffs. Ghost-busting sheriffs. Ghostbusters, if you will. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime may not have Spengler, Stantz, Venkman, or Zeddemore, but it does have four player online and local co-op. There are four new recruits that make up this rookie class of Ghostbusters. Read on to find out more about them.
We covered Sony's patent for shared-screen stereoscopic 3D gaming last summer. Sony execs put on a demonstration recently showing the Dual View 3D mode in Killzone 3. In normal 3D viewing, two similar images are shown on screen, and 3D glasses produce the depth effect. In Dual View 3D mode, two entirely different images are on screen. What you see is dependent on your position to the television or monitor. So player one will have one full screen display, and player two will have their own individual display as well.
The grandiose reveal is finally here. Well, okay...it's not so grandiose. But it is interesting, especially when you consider the prospects of playing SOCOM 4's five-player cooperative mode with a Sony Move Sharpshooter.
The fireworks won't stop on July 4th. According to Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon's Facebook page, the game will be released on July 5th, the perfect capstone to a weekend of barbeque, sky explosions, and America. Judging from this latest screen, also from the Facebook page, the game's hero will have a grittier look than old swivel hips, Storm 1, the protagonist from EDF 2017.
We've just been tipped off that Amazon has put Halo Reach's special editions on sale for one day only. This means you can get the normally $150 Legendary Edition for $60, or the normally $80 Limited Edition for $40. Halo Reach supports a four player co-op campaign and the four player co-op Firefight mode. It also received our Co-Op Game of the Year in 2010 award.
Did you disagree with the Playboy advertising in Dead Rising 2? Have your say.
For the third year in a row, fans of giant robots who change into cool vehicles will be getting a Transformers-based video game. Summer 2011 brings the third Transformers film, Dark of the Moon, to theaters, and of course there is the obligatory game tie-in with it. The past two movie games were horrid and average, respectively, and we are hopeful that the trend at improvement will continue. What makes us so hopeful? First of all, the game is being developed by High Moon Studios, who did a bang-up job on War for Cybertron last summer. You may recall that in addition to a highly regarded online vs. component, online campaign co-op for three robots and a five-player survival mode called Escalation were included.
