Co-op-recap My Computer Abandoned Me Edition

It's the end of the month again, time to pay the bills, and to balance all that check writing - recap all the good times with Co-optimus.com. That's right, they haven't fired me yet, despite having no computer for almost a week this month. Anyway, shall we?

To begin with, I delivered some interesting news about an awesome video capture feature in Tom Clancy's HAWX. The PS3 version of the game has a great feature that allowed gamers to record awesome video directly on their PS3, and upload it directly to Youtube to show off. Hey, I was impressed.

One important thing I got to do this month was review the co-op feature in House of the Dead: Overkill. I sat on my couch with a good friend where we unloaded on some mutants to pick apart the game for a Co-optimus review. Somewhat connected, I took another look at Mushroom Men for a feature called Beyond Co-op.

I shared and signed up for a Contest for the game Sacred 2 – so far, I haven't won anything, for the record. On the contest front, I also found a bit of info on some xbox live points from coke.

Resident Evil 5 was visited several times for me. The first time, I covered a Mercenaries Mode, set to be released as a patch after the games release. The second look at Resident Evil was my skepticism about co-op, Co-op versus Solo gameplay.

One of my favorite things to do is editorials. This month, last second, I was asked to share a co-op experience in a feature called "This Week In Co-op". I covered an experience in Halo Wars this time, with our Editor and a friend of mine! Who knows what I'll cover next month, co-op with me and you may be featured on the site!

Ghostbusters has still been hot on my list. After the co-op was revealed in all versions of the game, I took a look at both: Wii, and Xbox versions of the game. The Wii version had previously revealed co-op gameplay, but has a very different style in that version of the game. Being completely different than the Xbox 360/PS3 versions, both versions might be worth taking a look at!

The other ghostbusters story I covered was from a developers perspective. Tony Laborie of Threewave Software wrote to IGN explaining how the decision to include co-op came about for the Xbox 360/PS3 version of Ghostbusters.

I was a huge fan of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, so to be presented some interesting info on it's sequel, I jumped on the article. Marvel went in to a lot of detail on how they give the heroin Songbird her wings.

Earlier this month, there was a rumor about Bioshock having some form of co-op. Unfortunately for some, Co-op was debunked by the developers. I'm still torn on Co-op in my “horror” games, so this was a tricky topic to cover.

Developers have been left out of the 'profit' loop with used game sales. Therefore, I was actually excited to share the information on Switchgames.com sharing some of the profits from used sales. This was apparently a tender subject, but I've had great experiences from game developers, so I feel they deserve some of the profits from their games.

One of the games I've been looking forward to on the PS3 is Little Big Planet. LBP hit a major milestone in their user created content. Gamers can create their own video game levels, which can then be played online by other players. This particular game hit over 600,000 user created levels, that's...impressive to say the least!

A few months ago it was rumored that Aliens: Colonial Marines – a first person shooter that has been compared to Left 4 Dead, with movie-franchise-Aliens, was canceled. Fortunately there was a supposed leak in a UK Magazine called Powerstation about the game.

Terminator: Salvation looks like an interesting movie, and the game of the same name has come to our attention. That usually means it features co-op, however we got our hands on a preview of the game, with a few disappointments for us.

And there you have it, my poorly written recap of the month. As mentioned, my laptop has been out of commission, so I'm working on a lot of backlog at the moment. Next month, I'll have a plan for this!