In December 2021, Sega and a company called Zuiki released the Astro City Mini, a miniature arcade cabinet featuring 37 classic Sega arcade games. Now to be outdone, Taito recently announced its own mini arcade cabinet: the Egret II Mini. Scheduled for release in March 2022, the Egret II Mini will include 40 classic arcade games, 10 of which feature 2-player local co-op. Even better, the optional Paddle & Trackball Game Expansion Set adds 10 more games and a very special controller. That’s a lot of classic co-op goodness!

Manning a starship across the uncharted reaches of space would be dangerous business, as over 50 years of Star Trek have shown us. Alien invaders, equipment malfunctions, and all manner of duties are perfect fodder for a cooperative game, however. The Captain is Dead, a videogame adaptation of a popular co-op board game that launched early this year deals with all those problems and more. And thanks to a major update this week, the game's version of space travel has just become even more vast and engaging.

Rogue Legacy is one of the finest Roguelite games ever made, but it lacks one important feature: co-op. Enter Plague Breaker from Canadian developer Wozzle Games, a Roguelite that channels the look of the GameBoy Advance Castlevanias while adding split-screen local co-op. The game won't launch on Steam Early Access until September, but there...

Rebellion is best known for its Sniper Elite and Zombie Army series of third-person shooters, and yet, those aren’t the only shooters up the UK-based developer’s sleeve. Back in 2018, Rebellion released a sleeper hit known as Strange Brigade. This one combines the studio’s signature third-person cooperative shooting with ample amo...

It's natural to be wary of a new Aliens game. The last one was a Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance-like trainwreck, after all. Still, the new third-person shooter formerly known as Aliens: Fireteam comes from an entirely different developer and publisher, Cold Iron Studios and Focus Home Interactive, and it looks pretty sweet. The game has recently been rebranded as Aliens: Fireteam Elite, and it will be releasing on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam on August 24.

Borderlands 3 is one of the biggest co-op shooters around. It's not exactly hard to find other players with which to co-op loot-shoot, but more potential players is usually better, right? As of today's update, finding online co-op partners should be even easier; crossplay (cross-platform multiplayer) has finally come to most versions of Borderlands 3. The update also adds permanent seasonal event toggling, a new level cap increase, and more.

The next entry in the Dark Picture Anthology, House of Ashes, now has an official release date as well as a story trailer. This will be the third installment in the anthology, after Man of Medan and Little Hope, and there are another five (yes, FIVE!) planned before it's concluded. That's a lot of Dark Pictures! 

We're still getting caught up on some of the news and game announcements from E3 and Keighley's Summer Game Fest, and one title that sounds very promising for all us Left 4 Dead fans is The Anacrusis, the first game from new development studio Stray Bombay. The studio was co-founded by Dr Kimberly Voll and Chet Faliszek, who have plenty of experience betwixt them, and in an interview back in 2019 when the studio was first announced, Chet said "we wanted to start a studio that made co-op games."

The Overcooked series and the recently released Lumberhill have proven that you can make a fun party game out of pretty much any job. The next career/task to get the party game treatment is the professional moving business, in the form of Get Packed: Fully Loaded from Coatsink Software. Get Packed launched as a timed Stadia exclusive last year...

Way back in 1996, Space Jam was an improbable movie that actually happened. 25 years later, almost as improbably, the sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy is coming to theaters and HBO Max on July 16. And just as unlikely from a probability standpoint, Microsoft has announced Space Jam: A New Legacy - The Game, a beat 'em up with 3-player local co-op, for Xbox and Windows 10. Talk about slammin'!

In my infinite quest to find the perfect PC gaming headset, I've gotten pretty close to perfection, but always came up short. ROCCAT's latest entry into the mix, the ROCCAT Syn Pro Air, seems a worthy contender on the surface. Our latest look dives below the back of the box to see if this is the headset to use in your da...

Tripwire Interactive has done a terrific job of supporting Killing Floor 2 since the co-op FPS launched on PC and consoles more than four years ago. Every year, the game receives multiple new maps and additions that help keep the cooperative experience fresh and addictive. The latest free update, 'Interstellar Insanity,' adds a new map...