343 Industries’ Halo 5: Guardians has drummed up more than its fair share of controversy by not having a split-screen option for two players to experience co-op on the same display. Though the developer has offered its own reasons for the same, many of them were echoed by Xbox division boss Phil Spencer in an interview with GameSpot.

“In the end, the teams make decisions based on the bar that they want to hit for complexity of what they’re going to run on a single box. We see the robustness of what Xbox Live is today and where people are playing across Xbox Live–you at your house, me at our house. We know that’s the vast majority of the co-op play. With Halo 5, the team really wanted to focus on making that experience great, both visually on the screen that you’re looking at, and all the systems in place.”

As such according to Spencer, it isn’t nearly as easy to get people in the same physical space as before. “I think the team made a trade-off based on what they see happening in the market today and what they wanted to do with their game. I love the nostalgia of the couch co-op of what Halo did in the past, but I also know in the realities of the day with people’s busy lives, it’s not as easy to get everybody in the same physical place. It’s one of the advantages that Xbox Live obviously offers.”

Halo 5: Guardians is out on October 27th for Xbox One. What are your thoughts on the lack of split-screen co-op? Let us know in the comments.

Let this be an example that not all data mining leads to confirmed features. This was the case when Titanfall beta testers mined the client and uncovered mentions of a split-screen mode for the game. Granted, not all features get implemented anyway but since the Burn Cards, Maps and Abilities were all legit, why not this?

Respawn Entertainment put those rumours to rest though on Twitter. “Titanfall will not have a split-screen mode.”

The developer also confirmed that there wouldn’t be a Season Pass for the game. This is pretty much in line with the total lack of micro-transactions, and it’s good that Respawn is emphasizing the finished product above heckling consumers for all their worth like some devs (*cough*DICE*cough*).

Titanfall will be releasing for Xbox One and PC on March 11th in North America and March 14th in Europe. It will be out on the Xbox 360 two weeks later. How do you feel about the lack of a split-screen mode and Season Pass? Let us know below.

With the recent Titanfall beta coming to an end, it of course remains up to surly testers/players to find out as much as possible about the full game. And surely enough, Ausgamers has gathered enough information from those who poked around the client code to unearth the names of 14 maps and a possible split-screen mode.

The maps in question are

• Angel City (Available in beta)
• Fracture (Available in beta)
• Colony
• Relic
• Airbase
• Boneyard
• Corporate
• Outpost 207
• Lagoon
• Rise
• Smugglers Cove
• Overlook
• Nexus
• O2
• Training Ground

It’s not unlike developers to keep cancelled map names and features within their code though, so don’t take it as confirmation of the same. Nonetheless, we expect Titanfall to have a sizable number of maps on release. The split-screen mode seems like something that would be better suited to consoles though.

Titanfall releases on March 11th in North America and March 14th in Europe for the Xbox One and PC, with the Xbox 360 version out two weeks later.

Croteam has released two new screenshots that shows split screen multiplayer. They said Serious Sam 3 will support four player multiplayer split screen including gamepad support. Check out the screenshots below and tell us what you think about them in the comments section below.

Alright well we all know that you have always been able to split-screen in all of the Gears of War games with Gears of War 3 not being an acception.  But now we can split-screen in the Gears of War 3 Beta with a guest.  This is a bug in the beta, but I see no harm done as it will be a feature in the full retail version.  Here is how you do it.

1: Start up any game that you can play with a guest online like Halo Reach, Call of Duty: Black Ops, etc.

2: Sign in a second controller as a Guest in that game.

3: Navigate to quick launch and start up the Gears of war 3 BETA.

4: Press start on the title screen with your gold account.

5: A pop-up will ask you to turn off the second controller. DO NOT DO THIS.

6: Next you’ll need to find a Friend or someone on your Recent Players list who is on the Gears of war 3 BETA and join their session.

7: At this point two things can happen. You will join the session along with your guest or it will not let you join but instead put you in a lobby with your guest.

8: If you are in a lobby with your guest you can then safely search for a game with your guest.

9: Enjoy.

Note: A minor bug may occur if you or your guest press the start button for any reason during a game, the opposite player will still be able to continue playing, but the screen will turn black and white as well as becoming all blurry. To fix this you must both pause your screens at the same time and un-pause at the same time.  Problem Solved.  Have fun!

Herman Hustt has confirmed in an interview with 1up that Killzone 3 will be featuring split-screen co-op.

Here’s what he said:

“We found a lot of power after we completed Killzone 2. Just to give you an example on the graphics side: we pulled a level from Killzone 2 into the Killzone 3 engine and it ran at 50 percent. That’s how much power we’ve been able to find,” he said.

“You can see it in split-screen co-op. We had to do the double rendering anyway.”

We hope there online co-op too. The game releases next Feb for PS3.

The trailer had been leaked even before the conference, but actually seeing the trailer on the show floor was an entirely differnet thing. Featuring Craig as Bond, 16 game modes, split screen multiplayer and online and eight characters from the Bond universe, this game promises to live up to the original classic Goldeneye 007 on the N64, if not excel it by a huge margin.

The game will be releasing exclusively for the Wii later this year.

Co-op mode split screen confirmed for Splinter Cell: Conviction.

The snap captures our pals helping out some Russian friends with their makeovers.