After months of silence, Firaxis has quenched our thirst for details on the Rise and Fall update for Civilization VI (that’s 6, in good ol’ Roman) that was announced last year. Originally revealed back in November 2017, the latest details explain the planned additions in more depth, including religions playing a prominent role, different governors and their influence, the ways a Dark, Golden or Heroic age can diminish or amplify gameplay, and much more.

You see that ray of light?  You may have to squint, but it's there, off in the distance.  That right there is March 27th, the day Far Cry 5 comes out.

For the shortest month of the year Sony has given the PlayStation PLUS members another batch of free games! For the single-player audience, the 2017 adventure game Rime leads the way, but for the ones who play games to play them with friends, the ones who love Co-Op, and the ones who missed out on 2014’s PS4 exclusive, Knack will be free.

Amidst all that talk of how the Windows version of Final Fantasy XV will take up 170 Gb of storage space for the highest of res graphics, there was an interesting little tidbit that popped up on the Microsoft Store listing for the title. That particular version of the game will allow you to team up with friends on the Xbox One to play the Comrades content together.

While Monster Hunter: World has been occupying much of our thoughts and gaming time, there are fun co-op titles lurking on the horizon. Like Dragon's Crown Pro, the remastered version of Vanillaware's already gorgeous brawler from the PS3. The title was originally announced for Japan only, and then in December Atlus said, &qu...

We've got kind of a bad-news, good-news situation on our hands. Bad news: the world is only down to one superhero, and it's being invaded by a mixture of limbless but hostile cat aliens, and magical girls.  Good news: the remaining superhero is the Greatest Of All Time, when she's not too busy binging B-movie horror flicks to save the world. Bleed 2  finally breaks away from PC solitude to launch on consoles.

Well, wouldn't you know it.  There's a fancy-lookin' co-op game out, and the whole Co-Opticrew (myself included) has dropped everything so they can watch, mouths agape, as its dinosaurs do dinosaur things.  Can you blame us, though?  I mean, those dinosaurs are like, really pretty.  Also, who can argue with a cat that fights for you and loves you and I want them to be my forever friend oh my god.

Monster Hunter: World is the first big co-op release of 2018, so it should come as no surprise that we've been putting it through its paces and playing it every chance we get. In case you missed them earlier this week, we did two streams of it and you can catch the recaps after break.

Monster Hunter: World has been out for less than a week, but it appears that it's already pretty popular around the globe. Certainly there are a few of us on staff that have been enjoying our time in the New World tracking and bringing down Anjanaths, Pukei-Pukeis, and Barroths. If you're out there, too, having fun "hunning mons" with your friends, then Capcom's got a treat in store for you next month: free Street Fighter V costume DLC.

I'll be the first to own up to my limited understanding of actual warfare, but based on what knowledge I do have, the following is a list of scenarios ranging from "most desirable" to "least desirable":

When is a delay not a delay? Apparently, when you have to make a statement to investors during a quarterly earnings call. EA stated yesterday that their forthcoming third-person shooter/action-RPG title, Anthem, would now have a 2019 release instead of the original 2018 date that was given during last year's E3.

Somewhere around the middle of its second world, the brawler veneer to Full Metal Furies begins to peel away. Underneath, you find something rather surprising. The familiar action loop that interrupts the ubiquitous screen-scrolling is not just a chance to mash buttons and eliminate foes, but a new configuration of recognizable patterns and enemy b...