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I’m thrilled to anounce that Bungie has heard the cries of gamers from around the world! It appears as though online co-op with 4 players will be available as we once reported it was not.
[Update]
Bungie has now confirmed the report that there will be online 4 player co-op! They’ve also revealed that there will be two new characters to play as in co-op mode: N’tho ‘Sraom and Usze ‘Taham. Every character will have the same abilities and will only start off with different weapons.
[Via Bungie]
After months of rumors the Xbox 360 Core, Premium, and Elite will be receiving price cuts on August 12, at least at Circuit City! The premium will cost $350, Elite $450, the Core $280.
[Via Joystiq]
We brought you news of Far Cry 2’s announcement some 11 days ago. And in a most predictable manner, we have some more news of the same. Luckily, it’s more useful news that actually says something other than “Brace yourselves. Greatest game yada yada awesome graphics yada yada”
Far Cry 2 will be free from any special alien, magical, mutant or Force powers and you won’t be seeing any nanosuits in it. Jack Carver won’t be in it either. And no Tropical islands. No Trigens.
This begs the question, what is there in Far Cry 2? I’ll tell you what is. African Savannahs. Hungry animals. Angry people. The story will involve charging the protagonist for killing an arms dealer who supplied arms to two sides of a conflict in a failed state. The player will then be involved in many more plots, missions and conflicts. The whole concept of the game will be to shape itself around the player. So the story essentially builds on the player’s actions. Now where have I heard that before?
Far Cry 2’s producer Louis-Pierre Pharand reveals:
The game takes place in two fully open worlds that are five kilometres on a side, with the second world ‘unlocking’ roughly one-third of the way through the game. This gives a playable area of 50 square kilometres, through which the player is allowed to freely travel at any time.
Sounds real sweet to my ears.
[Via CVG]
I wasn’t a big fan of the original Fable title on the Xbox. It was an RPG game that didn’t have much going for it in my mind. Now on the Xbox 360 Fable 2 is definitely building up hype with its simple combat and Love-centric gameplay possibilities. After watching the following two developer diaries you too may just fall in love with these upcoming title…
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The trailer for the independent video game Project Offset is here! After nearly 2 years of seeing the first video clips we’ve finally got the trailer with tons of in-game gameplay to show off why Project Offset is such an intriguing game. Remember what you’re about to see was developed by a small team of developers, not a large studio like EA.
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You know every now and then there’s an Xbox Live Arcade game that I actually want to play. The games that I want to play today are Marathon and Wing Commander Arena. Of course I still can’t play these games because I have yet to even receive the box to ship my Xbox 360 back to Microsoft for repairs!
But if I were you I’d download these two games right away – demos at first and purchase later if they are any good!
For those of you that know the history of games, you should know that Marathon is Bungie’s first game. Bungie is the studio that brought us Halo, you know that game right? Wing Commander is an amazing series that I loved dearly so everyone should play it. The issue with this new Xbox Live Arcade game is that EA changed the gameplay formula to a third person 2D space shooter gameplay in a 3D world so it might suck. Plus with no Full Motion Video scenes including Mark Hamill I’m already disappointed.