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We've been excited for the Taito Egret II Mini arcade cabinet since it was announced last year. The cabinet will include 40 classic arcade games from Taito, with several cool accessories adding to the arcade experience. Until now, the Egret II was only announced for the Japanese market. Now, United Games Entertainment (parent company of ININ and Strictly Limited) has revealed that it will distribute the Egret II Mini in the West in 2022!

Upon the arrival of the 32-bit era of gaming, the 2D games that had dominated the games industry began to disappear in favor of 3D games. One casualty of this shift was Clockwork Aquario, a 2D arcade game from the creators of the Wonder Boy series, Westone. The gorgeous platformer was canceled before completion and thought lost to time. Fast-forwar...

While Halo Infinite doesn't officially have co-op, there's at least some codebase in the game that supports it. Likely the reason it's delayed is still to iron out some bugs, glitches, and overall balance - but at the very least some folks on Reddit managed to figure out a way to bring in another player for two player split-screen co-op in Halo Infinite.

Clockwork Aquario, the long-lost arcade game from the studio that created the Wonder Boy games, launches on PlayStation and Switch in North America this week (it's already out in Europe). The game's extremely long delay has actually qualified it for a world record, which is fairly amazing. World records aside, Clockwork Aquario, which ...

For the first time in the entire series history, a Halo game will launch without official co-op support. Halo Infinite officially launches on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series today but the game's co-op mode won't be out until sometime next year. 

Not a lot of people enjoy household chores, but there's something therapeautic about power washing. The high powered stream of water simply erasing dirt, mold, and other gunk off your outdoor goods simply scratches some primal itch in our heads. To that end, the folks at FuturLab agreed and developed a way for you to get that satisfaction whenever you want.

Although the Serious Sam series originated on PC, it has a long history of console ports as well. That's why we're seriously stoked that Devolver Digital and Croteam have finally released Serious Sam 4 on Xbox Series S|X (and Game Pass!) and PlayStation 5, complete with 4-player online co-op.

Better late the never, we needed to come down off the pain this one caused us. Our two hour stream covering Gloomhaven's second mission ended in the best and worst way possible. It shows you just how critical early errors in the mission can cause catastrophic effects later.

December is upon is. Another holiday season right around the corner. A time of reflection, tranquillity and friendly gatherings allowing you to finally get out that awesome local co-op game you've been sitting on all year and play through it with your family and/or friends - or just dance your heart out with this years installment of the ever popular Just Dance-series. But while we do appreciate the fun in helplessly flayling around - we personally prefer to do it on our own and behind closed doors with multiple locks.

As I'm sure your inboxes have informed you, today is Giving Tuesday, an unofficial holiday for non-profit organizations to ask for the pocket change you didn't spend during Black Friday month and Cyber Monday week. I kid, but I've honestly given up on trying to keep track of sales. It's gotten a little crazy. So instead of spending your hard earned cash on stuff you don't need, why not donate it to a charity?

Before closing its doors in 2014, Japanese developer Westone created the Wonder Boy series, the Sega CD co-op classic Dungeon Explorer, and many more games. Westone’s last title, the co-op platformer Clockwork Aquario, never made it to arcades and was thought lost for many years. Thankfully, ININ Games recently uncovered and completed the gam...