Ever since the internet and retail stores turned Black Friday into a month long ordeal, a few other special days have popped up during the weeks following Thanksgiving. My favorite is today, Giving Tuesday. If all the "thanks" giving put you in a generous mood, Giving Tuesday (or #GivingTuesday as the internet likes to call it) invites everyone to donate to various charities.
Humble Bundle has put together a bundle of games and other goodies, and, as usual, is letting you pay what you want. A portion of your sale goes directly to Extra Life, a charity Co-Optimus has actively participated in for the past two years. Extra Life is a 24 gaming marathon that raises money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, who care for sick kids and premies.
I got to see a brief demo of Killing Floor 2 at NYCC. The sequel to the six player co-op game from 2009, Killing Floor, Killing Floor 2 is raising the bar of its predecessor and making it even more about gore and cooperative play.
Almost every year I trek out to New York Comic Con to see what's going on in a world of entertainment I ashamedly don't follow close enough. I absolutely adore the art and style that oozes out of every corner of the show floor. There's a lot to take in at the show and we've got the pictures to prove it.
For our third consecutive year, Co-Optimus staff and community are participating in Extra Life to help raise money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. The past two years, we raised a little over $2,000 each year, and we're shooting for $2,500 this year. You can help us exceed our goal by donating or joining our team.
Gamescom may have been a few weeks ago, but we can’t forget about a cool title that was announced during the conference. Paradox Interactive and Ruffian Games (the same developer who brought us Crackdown 2) will be bringing us a new top-down action shooter called Hollowpoint. Set in the distant future, powerful corporations use organiz...
Meeeeeow. That's one pretty looking tiger.
They say don't wish your life away, but with Evolve being postponed; both it and Dying Light are now out in February. 2015 cannot come fast enough for co-op gamers. Speaking of fast, you better have your running shoes on as the new trailer for Dying Light shows up to 4 co-op players are going to have to be fast to survive.
And with this post, E3 2014 has finally come to a close for Co-Optimus. Two weeks after the show ended we're finally done writing, editing, and talking about all the great games we saw in Los Angeles this year. We've put out over 20 videos with exclusive interviews with developers and hands on impressions with games. We've written over 30 hands on previews of the co-op titles we saw at the show and we've posted countless other announcements and media for your pleasure.
A lot of our interviews at E3 were informative and engaging. We chatted with developers, producers, artists and more about games they were extremely passionate about being a part of. Then there was the folks from Free Lives. Not only were these folks passionate about the game they were creating, Broforce, they were fun, relaxed, and ready to rock and roll. We went into that trailer tired from E3, we left it ready to battle for America.
We're finally wrapping up all of our E3 2014 coverage. Locke is putting the finishing touches on the last few video interviews, and all the writing previews are officially done. It was an amazing show for Co-Optimus; one in which we got to see over 25 co-op games. Every year we nominate games that exemplify co-op gameplay, and show the greatest potential for fun for gamers. This year we've got seven games nominated with only one winner.
Rainbow Six Siege was a surprise announcement of the show, a reboot of Patriots, Siege was unveiled at E3 2014 but only shown in a 5vs5 multiplayer format. At first we were worried, would the Rainbow Six games we loved turn into some sort of competitive only franchise? Fret not, Locke dug deep in his interview with designer Andrew Witts and got the goods on what we can expect from Rainbow Six Siege when it launches next year.
