It's been rumored for some time with a lot of folks asking "is this for real," and Ubisoft finally answered all of that during their E3 press conference today. Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle is an actual thing and it is coming to the Nintendo Switch this August.
One of the many welcoming trends of modern gaming (in my opinion, at least) is the inclusion of the open beta. Interested in an upcoming title? What better way to determine whether you should part from your hard earned cash than to test drive a portion of the game for free? It certainly beats buying a game based on a few random screenshots plastered on the back of the box.
One of the more anticipated co-op games that was to arrive in 2015, Tom Clancy's The Division, has been delayed yet again until next year. Ubisoft's annual fiscal report indicates the release date being pushed back almost a year from the anniversary of the first delay.
It's time to shed a few zombie-sized tears for a co-op game that will never be. Ubisoft's ZombiU 2 was alive for all of two months before the plug was pulled. New details have been sniffed out that show co-op was one of the big features planned for the canned follow-up.
We are amongst friends here so let us all admit that Ubisoft has had some problems with game releases recently. Assassin's Creed Unity may have been fun, but had more bugs than an episode of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Hoping to learn from their errors The Crew launches today with a new trailer, but also a day one patch.
Assassin’s Creed Unity’s release date has been pushed back a couple of weeks for the developers to complete all necessary additions and tweaks. Ubisoft is certain that the extra time will be well spent on the minor details.
Ubisoft has made the ultimate call on some of its older titles. While online connectivity has been compromised for a few of these games in the past, (such as stripping out Xbox Achievements and PS3 Trophies) they're finally getting the full on multiplayer-ectomy. Ubisoft is bringing down the online servers and striking them from U-play on August 8th.
Day 0 of E3 is done, and Co-Optimus is bringing you their wrap up of all the press conferences that happened, with impressions of the games announced including all the co-op goodness. We've got surprise announcements like Dead Island 2, Magicka 2 and Assassin's Creed Unity. So sit back and relax and here all the good news that went down for co-op gamers on Monday, June 9th 2014 at E3 in Los Angeles.
The third conference of the day is Ubisoft. Under their belt are the Tom Clancy franchises like The Division and Splinter Cell. Of course there are other staples like Assassin's Creed to add to the mix now, but could Ubisoft surprise us like they did two years ago with Watch_Dogs and a new IP?
We figured now is a good time as any to lay down the big press conferences for E3. We'll have live streams available for some on the site. You can also hit up our front page and check our E3 feed powered by Rebelmouse for live tweets, pics and more from the conference.
The next Assassin's Creed title in the franchise, Assassin's Creed Unity, may possibly have a four-player co-op mode included in it that's altogether different than the Wolfpack mode found in the previous games. We might need to wait until E3 to see it officially, a trustworthy source says that the next Assassin's Creed title should see a new type of co-op mode.
What if we told you that there's a new co-op shooter game currently in development that combines elements of both Left 4 Dead and Shadow of the Colossus? No, we aren't joking around here, it's already a year in the making. Bringing together various developers from Crytek, Ubisoft, and even Adhesive Games (the creators of Hawken), Outrise aims to include a mashup of these two extremely popular video games in what seems to be the best ways imaginable.
