I don’t think I am the first person to notice this, but I feel like the first to come out in anger against the new direction video game companies are taking “multiplayer” video games these days — if you can even still call them multiplayer.

The first offense I noticed was last year’s Left 4 Dead. My roommates and I rented a copy and were ready for some four-player, zombie, split-screen action on my 52-inch TV. We put the disc in my XBOX360 only to figure out that four player co-op really meant two player split-screen split between two different consoles. (more…)

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