If Tom Clancy's games represented an army we would soon be calling him Supreme Overlord Tom Clancy as there are plenty of them.  Tremble in fear as the next two of his branded minions have been given an official European release date from Ubisoft.  The 4 player co-op flight game H.A.W.X. 2 will be winging its way onto shop shelves come September 3rd.  According to Amazon.com the US release date is set for September 7th.  Of note, right now all Amazon listings have the game at an MSRP of $49.99 instead of the usual $59.99.   A release date for R.U.S.E was also announced, this strategy game will be released a week later on September 10th (Sept 7th US). 

Let's face it, a lot has happened between the years of great Resident Evil titles. From the change of scenery from the Mansion and Racoon City to the far reaches of Spain and Africa, to the inclusion of co-op in on rails shooter The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil 5. It now looks like Capcom wants to speed up the growth a bit by releasing a new Resident Evil game every 2 years or so, instead of approximately every 4 years.

The Gears of War series has a long tradition now of amazing trailers set to some emotional music.  It all started with the infamous Mad World trailer for Gears 1 followed by the How it Ends trailer with Gears 2.  Gears 3 so far has had the Ashes to Ashes trailer, again, another emotional and moving look at the game.  All of these trailers had Epic Games at the helm to guide their creation using official assets they had on hand, and while the latest trailer may look and sound the part it's actually a fan made tribute using the Unreal Development Kit.

What can be better than a free game? How about a free co-op game from Valve, one of the premier PC developers and publishers of today. Wait, it gets better. There's also full mod support built right in. What is this mythical creation? It's Alien Swarm, and it's our review.

Twelve years ago a little game called StarCraft was released on the PC.  A sequel in some regards to another franchise named WarCraft, StarCraft forever changed the face of real time strategy gaming.  Now over a decade later the sequel has finally arrived.  

Thos of you who are longtime readers might remember my review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii last fall.  To summarize, I felt the multiplayer was chaotic and messy, though fun at times, and it didn't feel very cooperative to me at all.  I still stand by that review, though others obviously feel differently.  Apparently, I'm not alone in my assessment of that title: Kotaku's Stephen Totilo mentions many of the same issues.

It's time for an Xbox Live Co-Op night, and in what's just past our two year anniversary of these events we've been doing with Microsoft, we decided to go big. Big. Hulking. Robots. That's right it's time to roll out and co-op through Transformers: War for Cybertron!

Remember the days when you had shelf after shelf of new games. Well, for some of us we’re still there, but as the gaming industry moves toward many more full game digital downloads, will we miss the cases and shelf art, or welcome the extra space in our gaming rooms?

We've got a ton a Kane and Lynch 2 news today for you, so strap yourself in for one intense ride.  In fact, intense is proclamation for the game.  We've used it before and now the team at IO Interactive are using it in their latest developer diary describing their goals for the game.  Number one on the list?  You guessed it  - an intense experience.  The team also describes how they really focused on community feedback from the first game to improve things like the cover system, AI, co-op and more.  

Don't let the episode title fool you, we cover WAY more than Epic Games' outspoken president! There's a ton of Halo Reach news to go over, a litany of new console releases from Microsoft, Kinect's price was announced, and we once again take news about Killzone 3's (lack of) co-op with the grain of salt it deserves. We stuff all of this and more into a nice, hour-long package, and there's even a surprise ending!

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Don't worry PC gamers - we know you just got Star Craft 2 with its own versions of space marines, but Relic has some big beefy soldier goodness for you too.  Today they have announced that their game, aptly titled Warhammer 40K: Space Marine,  will be coming to your custom rigged neon glowing PCs in 2011 alongside the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version.

Borderlands has been a real co-op juggernaut.  It's one of our forum users' most beloved titles, and it's easy to see why.  A great shooter with super-customizable RPG elements, all set in a gorgeously rendered world, with split-screen and online co-op... ah, yeah, that's what we're talking about.  For Xbox Live Gold users, Borderlands is even better this week, as all three DLC packs are available for the low price of 400 points, AKA 5 bucks.  That's half off, just like Mad Moxxi's clothes in the pic above.  (Way to tie it in, eh?)  So, if you're a Borderlands fan who likes to stretch the value of your gaming dollar, it looks like this is your week.  Maybe with the savings we can all pitch in and buy Moxxi a t-shirt...