Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Four Reasons We Uninstalled Dauntless A Lack of Inspiration With a Wealth of Microtransactions Made Us Dislike Dauntless Here at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, we usually review games we’ve relentlessly played for months. For a game to keep our attention every night, it’s usually awesome. We wanted to give more coverage to games that we tried and decided not to play—games that didn’t give us a moment’s hesitation when we uninstalled them to ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Review Simple Tools, Objectives, and Systems Give Players Carte Blanche in This Cerebral Game. Highly Recommended. Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the most pure and refined two-player video game we’ve ever played. It’s fitting that the game’s subject matter is cocaine—playing is a chemical-like experience where you’re locked into each moment, and clearing your head as the future unfolds is a struggle. Focus. That’s what Wildlands demands of its players, and the ...
Books, Reviews, Video Games February 3, 2023 Death by Video Game: Review Simon Parkin's 2015 Book Doesn't Deliver On Its Premise Browsing for books about video games on Amazon, I didn’t find many options. Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline was easily the most sensationalist title. Its description reads, “In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing ...
blog, Pigeons March 10, 2023 The Dodo was a Dove; The Passenger Pigeon’s Coo Sounded Like Sleigh Bells; and The Original ‘Stool Pigeons’ Were Live Birds With Eyes Sewn Shut—Read All About the Horrors Man Bestowed Upon Gentle Doves in This Excerpt from Vanished Species If you’re a pigeon fancier like us at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, you’ve probably imagined how loveable a giant dove, let’s say 50 pounds, could be. He and his flock would roam the earth like buffalos, belting out enormous coos and dancing in the horizon, their silhouettes like pom-poms beating in harmony with the breeze. ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 How We Learned to Stop Searching for Couch Co-op Games and Love Gamesharing Splitscreen Is a Thing of the Past, but Gamesharing on Two Systems Can Be Even Better Console games used to be designed for friends and families to play together in their living rooms. Split-screen functionality, with as many as four players using the same screen, was a standard feature. XBox Live launched in 2002, and games haven’t been the same since. Online party joining and voice chat freed game developers from ...
blog, Video Games January 27, 2023 We’re Hating on Stadia: Google Turns a Blind Eye to Bandwidth Caps and U.S. Internet Infrastructure This is the year 2019. We stream movies and TV shows in 4k, back up photographs to the cloud, take part in video conferences when we work from home, and live-stream video updates about our lives. Oh, and we play video games. We play them online with the help of clunky antiquated hardware—an Xbox, a ...
Reviews, Video Games February 17, 2023 Fear and Loathing in Tamriel: Elder Scrolls Online Review BETHESDA AND ZENIMAX PROVED THEIR ANTIPATHY TOWARD PLAYERS WITH ESO LONG BEFORE FALLOUT 76 FLOPPED. NOT RECOMMENDED It’s hard to believe that many gamers today—especially console gamers—have never experienced a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game. The labyrinthine systems and infinite grind at the core of The Elder Scrolls Online are familiar to anyone who cruised the pixelated forests of Everquest or World of Warcraft on a PC. These and other MMORPG arrangements—the ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Fallout 76 and Fortnite: Save the World Made Me Swear Off Video Game Loot Comparing video game looting to real-life pursuit of items and objects makes it clear that some games are a bad fantasy There’s a simple reason many gamers refuse to loot. It takes you out of the action and into inertia. You open a barrel, for example, and it contains an axe. You closely examine it, and then compare it with your equipped axe. Yours is better. Unsatisfied, you open another barrel. You find a gem. Hurrah! ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Never Played Video Games Before? Here’s How to Start The beginner's guide to video games, from controller clumsiness to PVP If you’re like me and you didn’t play games as a child, picking up a controller can be a daunting experience. I could find the window defogging button on a rental car faster than the L1 button on a controller. The flashing colors and explosions of light on the screen were as inscrutable as a ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Fortnite: Save the World Review Seamlessly creative and collaborative group play paired with astonishingly adaptable skill, build, and loot systems make for an addictive game. Highly Recommended Fortnite: Save the World is the PvE component of the cultural phenomenon known as Fortnite. As adults in our 30s, jaded and out of the loop, we wanted nothing to do with a game beloved by children and millennials. We’re all familiar with (and sick of hearing about) Fortnite’s slick building interface, addictive pickaxe-looting playstyle, ...
