One of the consistent things every Halo game has had is co-op play. And while it simply started as clones of Master Chief running around in 2 player co-op Halo, the game progressed to integrate it into the story with Halo 2 as the Chief and Arbiter were the focus of that campaign. And with four player co-op being added in Halo 3, it changed the benchmark for the series.
I have fond memories of our Halo 3 Firefight nights on Xbox Live. We had huge community participation and hours upon hours and waves upon waves of Covenant to defeat. But when Halo: The Master Chief Collection finally added Halo 3: ODST to its assortment of games, it neglected to add the specific flavor of Firefight we loved.
PC owners of Halo: The Master Chief collection have been getting a steady drip of releases as the team works to bring all content from the Xbox One release onto PC with all the fixins' PC gamers expect. Halo 2 Anniversary is the 3rd full game available following Halo Reach and Halo: Anniversary.
If you thought DOOM Eternal was going to be the only way to get your digital demon-slaying needs met in 2020 and that you’d have to suffer through doing it solo, think again. The developer says that Dying Light’s newly announced Hellraid DLC (trailer below) will “be your ticket to Hell and back. No, it’s not a metaphor. You will be literally hacking through demonic hordes of Hell.” Sign me and my friends up.
It's been nearly nine years since Saints Row: The Third glimpsed a world in which the eponymous Saints had reached celebrity status, and what a world it was. Luckily, we no longer have to daydream about such a place (or bust out our old consoles to explore it), because Saints Row: The Third Remastered is releasing on May 22nd.
It's a tale as old as time. Gangster becomes president. President gains superpowers. Superpowerful president defends the earth from aliens. You've heard it a thousand times, and you'll hear it once more when Saints Row IV: Re-Elected makes its way to the Nintendo Switch on March 27th.
Back in March, we reported that Halo: Reach would be added to the Halo: The Master Chief Collection sometime this year. With just a few weeks left, 343 Industries is fulfilling that promise and Halo: Reach will arrive on the PC and Xbox One on December 3, 2019. On the PC side, this marks the first Master Chief Collection title to arrive on that platform, with the other games in that bundle arriving over the course of the next year.
Dying Light 2 may be well on its way to a Spring 2020 release, but that doesn't mean the original Dying Light has run out of steam. As a matter of fact, the end of the first game's life cycle has allowed the developers to get pretty weird with things, as shown in their latest Halloween event.
You read that title correctly. Saints Row 2, the second entry in the Saints Row franchise, a title that is now 11 years old, will be receiving a patch on the PC before we know it. The update comes due to Volition, the Saint’s Row series developer, finally finding the source code for the PC version of the game, the port of which was handled by an outside studio. While this is both official and delightful news - especially the bit about co-op working now - the timeframe when the PC version will be patched and content added are still yet to be announced. With Volition also working on Saints Row 5, it could be some time before we see this come to fruition.
At the end of every month, we Xbox Live Gold members are on the edge of our seats for the new games that will become free the following month, and the recently-released game lineup for August 2019 does not disappoint. Beginning August 1st, 2019, Gears of War 4 is free to anyone who is an Xbox Gold member, with Forza Motorsport 6 becoming free August 15th, with Gears of War remaining free until August 31st and Forza free until Sep 15th. Both games are only available on Xbox One, as the Xbox 360 is given its own games for the program.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Ubisoft's sci-fi action title, has been available on consoles since October of last year. While it initially featured some optional toys-to-life elements, the developers recently confirmed that portion of the game is being discontinued. Fortunately, though, that doesn't mean Starlink is done getting new content. Not even close.
Ubisoft posted a pretty honest and straightforward blog post last week about the state of their "build-your-own" spaceship shooter, Starlink: Battle for Atlas. The initial launch of the title was somewhat surprising as all of the "toys-to-life" games of the past few years have seen a steep decline, but Ubisoft seemed to account for that by offering the option to use physical or digital content in Starlink. It appears, though, that that still wasn't enough to help with the sales as Ubisoft stated they've "made the decision to not release any additional physical toys for the Spring update and in the future."
