In case you haven't caught wind of the News Thunder, Heroes of the Storm is launching for realsies June 2nd. Pretty soon, everybody can attempt to beat the summer heat by lining up to play as Jim Raynor, Kerrigan, The Actual Devil, or one of 20 million Warcraft characters in Blizzard's new, ostensibly friendlier MOBA. If June is just a bit too far away, you could always get your HoTS fix during the full-on Open Beta, kicking off May 19th. Being a Free To Play game, I'd figure pretty much everything is "Open Beta," but whatever. I'm not a marketing guy.

The SAS' story is woven throughout British military history, from their beginnings in Britain's North African WW2 campaign to their utlization throughout the Gulf War.  Thanks to Rainbow 6 Siege, players can now get the full "stiff upper lip" experience, which probably entails equal portions of kicking terrorist ass and stifling any and every emotion.

Dungeon Defender II fans should've seen a massive Steam update arrive yesterday, which introduced all new pet mechanics! Not only that, but a bunch of new features makes this patch one of the largest ones for the game to date. By far the biggest news for the game, the "Pets & Dragons" patch finally introduces pets into the ...

The Xbox and PlayStation versions of Mojang's sandbox adventure game Minecraft will receive an array of new content as part of a free update deploying this week, including a new character skin that swaps in an alternate protagonist.

Today Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown heads out of its early access on Steam and into the masses. Last night Locke and I decided to check out the turn based tactical RPG set in the Shadowrun universe and see what it has to offer. Very few games in this genre have attempted to do co-op, let alone two to four player co-op, so how does it work?

It's that time of year where I'm glad the early spring releases were worth a damn, because co-op games are few and far between in the days ahead. Luckily we have a few potential contenders dropping this week:

Developer Codemasters has announced that the next installment in the Overlord series, Overlord: Fellowship of Evil, will be coming to PC on August 25, 2015. Various platforms versions for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have been revealed to be coming as well, so almost everyone can experience it.

PC may have gotten Warframe's Sanctuary Update back in March, but it just dropped last week for PS4 and Xbox One players. Sanctuary adds a slew of new content, improvements, and tweaks as well as the new Chroma Warframe.

Well it's about time! A seemingly simple feature Starbound players have been calling for since day one is the ability to bookmark discovered planets for easy travel. At long last, storing the cool worlds you found is as simple as clicking "add bookmark"!

Treyarch is the last Call of Duty developer to actually implement a co-op campaign in a Call of Duty game, that was all the way back in 2008's Call of Duty: World at War. And while just about every game since has had a co-op mode, usually a spin-off like Zombies or Spec-Ops, the story in the Call of Duty games have been devoid of cooperation - it was always you against the world. But not anymore.

Bloodsports.TV is the cooperative “MOBA-like” game I’ve been looking for over these past few years. It drops much of the competitive metagame concepts, like laning, jungling, and last hit, in favor of focusing on a friendly, team-based survival experience....

Hey guys, whatcha playing? The Co-Optimus staff is all about board games, writing, and coding this weekend, though we'll all probably end up spending time with a video game or two by the time next week rolls around. Let's see what everyone's up to.