New World Interactive's Day of Infamy received another free update today. This time two new maps, Dunkirk and Breville, have been added and can be enjoyed cooperatively.

Day of Infamy, whose life began as a mod for the tactical FPS Insurgency, has now started a new life, free from the burden of its ancestry.  Someday down the road, Day of Infamy will be walking down the street, and a stranger will say, "Hey, aren't you that mod?", and it will respond, "No sir/madam, I'm a real life video game."  Huzzah!

It's a new year and a new format for our Beyond Co-Op series of non co-op reviews.  The staff has started to post their reviews over in our Blogs section, giving them a little more freedom to write up a review for all the other games we play.  We've also tweaked our scoring to match those of our co-op games, but without a score for co-op.  We simply use the Overall Score scale.

Today at E3 one of my highlight appointments was with Lexis Numerique for their survival horror game Amy. Amy features two main protagonist characters, but they interact with each other and are not independently playable characters. At any rate, I went on an in-depth tour of the world of Amy, and I'm going to explain it to you anyway.

E3 2011 kicks off next week in Los Angeles, CA and Co-Optimus will be there all week to bring you the goods on all of the biggest upcoming co-op games and beyond.  Nick, Andrew and Kat will be bringing you news, pictures, video, tweets, and audio direct from the show floor all week.  To kick things off the Co-Opticrew thought they'd talk a bit about their most anticipated titles of the show.  

I am not sure if I’m noticing my own habits of buying games that are similar all at once, or if the world is conspiring to release an onslaught of similar games one after another. This is where you decide. Do you see handfuls of games that appear to be coincidentally similar?

When taking a look at cooperative PSN titles lately, we've been seeing a lot of puzzle titles that force players to work together against the high score. Now however, the in-progress survival horror title looks to bring players together for a terrifying co-op experience, as well as an in depth story to enjoy. Amy, the misleadingly girlie title of an incredibly dark game, is looking to bring a truly horrific story to our PSN's, with players working together to run, hide, and fight off hordes of not-quite-human's.