One of the first cooperative board games we ever covered here at Co-Optimus was Castle Ravenloft. Released in 2010, this vampire-themed tabletop dungeon crawl was the first of the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System games. It was quickly followed by two more games in the series, Wrath of Ashardalon and Legend of Drizzt. Fans thought the series ...

Cyborg Rage, a shmup with procedural enemy generation similar to how Left 4 Dead does it, is now available on Steam. After its beta last November, the game cleared Steam Greenlight and is now available for full purchase.

Long before double rainbows were a thing, double dragons were an even bigger thing. The Double Dragon series of sidescrolling arcade beat-em-ups helped popularize the genre with solid co-op kicking and punching action. The effect was even greater when the games made it to consoles. Now, that shift to home systems is repeated some 24 years later with the release of Double Dragon II: The Revenge on PS4.

You want moar costumez? We got your costumes right here! Sorry, got a little angry there. It's ok, though, because now I'm feeling happy. Hey, that's just like the emotions from that new movie Inside Out! Nice coincidence, seeing as how Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust costumes are now available for LittleBigPlanet 3!

Originally teased two years ago, Foul Play has at last made its way to the PlayStation 4 and Vita. Now you and a buddy can fight your way through a cadre of demons for the amusement of a live theatre audience on your Sony platform of choice.

This past Thursday, Grim Dawn came out of Early Access and moved into official launch status. Crate Entertainment, formed from previous members of Iron Lore (the folks behind Titan Quest), has been working on this ambitious ARPG for six years, and now it's finally released.

We're all caucusing for our respective Fire Emblem families this weekend.  Some of us know the truth, that family means more than blood relations, and others are dumb garbage people who would betray the people that raised them at the drop of a hat.

After a series of teasers/trailers showing off Lothric and its many denizens, the latest video for Dark Souls 3 decided what was really needed to impart a true sense of foreboding was Cyndi Lauper. Nope, that's not a joke.

Originally a Source mod, the tactical FPS Insurgency was released for the PC back in 2014. The developer, New World Interactive, is teaming up with publisher Focus Home Interactive to further make some tweaks and adjustments to the title and release it as Insurgency: Sandstorm sometime in 2017 for the PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

Are you prepared to enter Devil's Bastion and face Baron Herx? What?! No?! Look, the dude's a total jerkface and needs some righteous smiting. So go pickup Barony: Cursed Edition, grab a couple friends, and get to it!

Four games were just placed on the freebie shelf for Xbox Live Gold members to download this March. There's something about a Sherlock game, some lord that has fallen, and a commander everybody thinks is just sooo supreme. And then there's the original Borderlands, ready to play in all its gory, gunny, co-op multiplayer glory!

So... Shadow Puppeteer. Pretty good PC co-op game, right? I mean, we certainly thought so when we wrote our Shadow Puppeteer Co-Op Review back in 2014. The artsy puzzle platformer has been quietly evolving since then, growing support for a touch screen gamepad and finally releasing on Wii U, local co-op intact!

EA's analog to Xbox One Access offers up a fistful of PC games in exchange for a monthly subscription fee. Most of the titles are the company's heavy hitters, but recently a little co-op RPG called Torchlight 2 made it on the list. When Battlefield and Dead Space doesn't cut it, it's time to go indie.

You know the only thing worse than a terrorist with a non-descript agenda wearing a ski mask and looking for trouble? Having to shell out your capitalistically hard-earned Democracy Bucks to experience freedom. That's why the People joined forces on PSN's monthly Free Game poll to select BROFORCE as PS Plus' free game of the month. That's right; starting in March, you can snag a copy of the most red, white, and blue game around for absolutely zero dollars.

It seems strange to think that you can pick up a copy of a 400 year old book and still read it, or buy a DVD of a 1940s film and still watch it, but try playing an online game from 2011.  Increasingly elements of games that require servers are no longer easy to play and you can now add Darkspore to that list as the servers are being pulled on March 1st 2016.

We've all been in situations that forced us to cooperate with a bitter rival.  Maybe you need a partner for doubles ping pong, and Ernesto, that jerk from the second floor, is the only one left in the break room.  Or maybe you have to pass it to your team's ball hog because, let's be honest, he's the only one on your intramural team with any actual skill.

Developer Robot Entertainment is celebrating "Orc Week," a holiday with which I'm wholly unfamiliar but hey, just go with it. During this time, all Orcs Must Die! games are on sale with a whopping 90% off discount. That means you can get Orcs Must Die! 2 for just $1.50, or you can get a two-pack (for you and a friend) of the "Complete" edition (i.e., the game and all DLC) for just $3.99. What savings!

Last year we checked out a MOBA by the name of SMITE, a game that allows up to five players take on groups of AI-controlled bots in a few different modes. We played it for a little bit and did some silly stuff. The title was a PC and Xbox One release only for some time, but the PS Blog has broken news that it will be coming to the PlayStation 4 soon enough.

You'd think that the Venn diagram for fans of lolita, Japanese goth, and SHMUPs wouldn't show a huge overlap, but as it turns out, the three combined genres command enough of an audience to justify Deathsmiles' extensive journey to PC.

Around this time last month we heard there would be some DLC on the way for widescreen, side-scrolling, giant fish ship shooter DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours. The new content, which is still unnamed at this point, would include three levels and ships based around three classic Taito games: RayForce, Night Striker, and Metal Black. All of this should be making its way to PC and PlayStation 4 around March 17.

The magic of the apocalypse is how it brings people together. You and your buddies can hold up in some abandoned hotel with a fully loaded arsenal of AK's and a cooler full of Bud Lite. Or, you can team up to traverse the wasteland of major cities, scouring for loot and wasting anyone who looks at your haul with covetous eyes.

The "Awakening" DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, which features four new multiplayer maps and the "Der Eisendrache" co-op zombie mode, released earlier this month on the PlayStation 4. For players on the Xbox One and PC, you'll only have to wait another week to dive into the content. The DLC bundle will be available to you starting March 3, 2016.

Local co-op arena brawler Wondershot arrived on Xbox One and PC last Friday, and is set to launch tomorrow, February 23, on PlayStation 4. The title supports up to four players locally and features a separate co-op mode where you and your teammates fight off waves of foes.

Last fall we heard news about the new game from Soldak Entertainment, Zombasite. Set in a world overrun by zombies after the inevitable zomb-pocalypse, players can team up to slay the undead, get loot, and negotiate between groups of survivors. A recently released video of the title highlights some of the action players can expect.