Author: Ryan
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Couch Co-op – A Fond Farewell
Welcome back to the final instalment of Couch Co-op. It’s with a heavy heart I bear the news that it will no longer appear on the interwebs. That’s not to say that I’ll be gone but it’s more of a greener pastures sort of situation. It would only be fitting to end on the same…
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Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
When I hear epic two things comes to mind: Epic games and Epic novels. But now there is a new meaning to me. I have always associated the word with a sense of grand scale and a deep story that spans hundreds of years. Even the name alone and the fact that the game had…
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Couch Co-op – Girlfriend Mode
With Borderlands 2 just released the issue of ‘girlfriend mode’ is surely far behind us as we ride off into the sunset of Pandora with a glorious haul of loot in tow. But it did raise the question, what games do we play with our partners? That is if you are one of the downright…
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
The day has come. Aliens have landed. Their wars will be fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on the Earth. And I have never been more excited. And yes, I did just paraphrase of War of The Worlds. XCOM is here and has brought out the micro-management fiend…
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Convention Wars: Return of the Expo
This year I have been fortunate enough to set off round the globe in search of games and glory. Although when I say I set off round the globe I mean I went on a trip to Tokyo Game Show and I visited London to go to Eurogamer. Nonetheless it was a vast journey for…
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Akihiro Suzuki on the Dynasty Warrior Series
At Tokyo Game Show I was lucky enough to catch up with Akihiro Suzuki, the director and producer of the Dynasty Warriors series. With a long line of games in the series Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires will be the newest addition to what is becoming a legacy, a dynasty, if you will, of hack and slash games.…
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The Fighters of Tokyo Game Show
Tokyo is renowned for its high level of play in fighting games and for its arcade community. Over the past several decades Japan has been the largest contributor to the fighting game genre with companies such as Capcom, SNK, Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei all contributing to an ever expanding market and types of fighting…
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David Brevik on Marvel Heroes
With Marvel Heroes entering its closed beta next month we grabbed some time with game development veteran, and President and COO of Gazillion Entertainment, David Brevik to talk about the much anticipated free-to-play action-packed MMO. With Brian Michael Bendis writing the script can we expect to see any characters he has worked on in his time at Marvel. Moon Knight, for example?…
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Couch Co-op – Party On!
A party by definition has several people in attendance so it would only seem natural that somebody made games for such an occasion, gamers are all highly sociable right? So what are the best games to bust out when you have some friends around? Whenever party games come to mind there is a set of…
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Couch Co-op – Arcade Adventures
Welcome back to Couch Co-op, the one stop blog for all the games you love to play alongside friends. This week we will be rifling through the abundancy of awesome games that are available to download to the Xbox 360 and PS3. Some of these games capture something I thought I left behind in my…