Keeping with the schedule of interesting, unpredictable choices, Microsoft has announced that Kane and Lynch 2 will will headline their Games with Gold for July, 2017. While the title was originally released for the Xbox 360, it has been on Xbox One’s list of backwards compatible games since December, 2015. Our thoughts on the game can be found, here.
If you've been browsing through PlayStation Store you may have noticed a few rough editions. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, and the sequel, Kane & Lynch: Dog Days, are now available for download. Both of the games received mixed reviews, but they're pretty good with a co-op partner. If you haven't played them yet, you may want to embrace your inner criminal and take one of these for a spin.
Rumors are flying around the interweb this January, like bullets in a gritty YouTube style computer game. If the concept of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle or Thief co-op game was not enough, the mill-that-is-rumor has just ground out a new tip in the form of SquareEnix trademarking the term 'Sleeping Dogs'. Is this their attempt at rivalling Nintendogs? Possibly, but more likely a follow up to Kane and Lynch: Dog Days. Finally an answer to the question; who let the dogs out? It was SquareEnix and IO Interactive.
Keeping a job in the current economic climate is not always the easiest thing, but those looking for an opportunity in co-op games development may find IO Interactive's new job posting of interest. Are they looking for staff to help develop Kane and Lynch 3?
Day 4 has come of the Steam Summer Sale extravaganza - and the co-op goodness keeps coming. There's six co-op titles on sale today from the big names to the little unknowns.
Five new downloadable packs are now available on Steam for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. This little isometric gem won our Best Downloadable Co-Op Game of the Year award for 2010. The first pack actually comes as a free title update and adds the titular characters from the Kane and Lynch games.
The votes were tallied in the contest of the DLC - and it looks like Kain and Raziel have won as the first set of co-op characters to download for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. The duo beat out Kane and Lynch as the other set of characters that would be available in the game, both sets of characters are available to download now - one free, one not.
Steam is offering two promotions starting this week - one for you and one for your friends. The first promotion is simple - just add 10 games to your wish list and you'll automatically be entered to win your entire wish list as one of 30 winners every day. Sounds pretty simple!
As we investigate more and more of the Co-optimus Community Voice options in our blogs, the more I realize how much organization I still have to learn to keep up with you guys. Really, we’ve seen some interesting blogs, and hope to see more from the quieter side of the community. This week we have two great options for week 4 in Co-optimus Community Voice. Next month we’ll have a new topic, and we’ll hopefully get more of a handle on things for you guys. We want to know more about the co-op community, not just great co-op news and resources.
The first batch of DLC is out now for Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days. Packed in its loot bag is a ton of goodies including maps, weapons, and masks for your co-op multiplayer experience. Previously most of this content was available as exclusive pre-order bonuses. The good news is this should add quite a bit of content to both Kane and Lynch 2's arcade mode and multiplayer online modes. The bad news is there's $11 worth of DLC here.
