If you’ve ever had the wild desire to observe your own meager defenses overrun by piles of rotting, ambulatory flesh, then you’re in luck! Shorebound Studios, of Spectraball fame, is offering you and your friends this exact experience with Dead Sky, a top down tower defense/shooter out on PC, Mac, and Linux in October of this year. Finally, you can watch on in disbelief as zombies tear across your previously impenetrable barricade and feast on your allies’ succulent, pink brains.

It’s almost as if Gearbox is afraid to stop shoveling DLC towards the monster that is Borderlands 2, perhaps fearing it will turn and devour its former master. So, once again, get ready to reload your most beloved automatic weapon and journey back to the sun-baked world of Pandora. "The Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2: Digistruct Peak Challenge" drops on September 3rd, for $4.99 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, and Mac.

Contraption Maker is a creative sandbox / puzzle game currently in development by the makers of The Incredible Machine. It hit Steam's Early Access program a few days ago, giving us the chance to sit down and tool around with the bits and bobs that make up the untamed world of digital Rube Goldberg machines....

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has more skins than a snake shedding factory, but that does not stop Co-Optimus from getting excited about the latest slice of DLC.  Commander Shepard and pals are dropping in from Mass Effect along with all new textures, skins and music.  

The Chaos Engine was originally released for Amiga back in 1993. It eventually spread to MS-DOS, the SNES, Sega Mega Drive and other platforms, but not until now has it seen an official release on modern PCs. The Bitmap Brothers' top-down shooter has returned, and assuming you're older than the game, it's exactly how you remember it!...

Microsoft's Games with Gold may be a poor reflection of Playstation Plus, but co-op fans have had a bevy of aging beauties to choose from, including Dead Rising 2 and Crackdown.  You can now add the aged master that is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas to that list, alongside Magic the Gathering 2013.  

August 2013 was a pretty solid month for co-op gamers with releases like Splinter Cell Blacklist and Saints Row IV both hitting within weeks of each other. Did we mention PAYDAY 2? Yeah that was out this month too, along with a dozen other titles. 

Welcome to this week’s Beyond Co-Op, where we look at interesting news around the gaming and entertainment industry that may not directly pertain to cooperative gaming culture. This week we have a couple of big Nintendo system announcements, EA’s future with online and “free-to-play”, Iran having issues with League of Legends, and Microsoft’s plans for the Kinect.

There's a lot of folks at PAX right now, but the Co-Opticrew decided to take some time off. We're still addicting to heisting in PAYDAY 2. There's plenty of gaming to go around though as August wraps up and we head into September. Do you hear that? That's the sound of two juggernaut next-gen consoles rapidly approaches. It sounds...it sounds...excit...expensive.

It's been a dramatic ride for Rayman Legends. What with the exclusivity promises, the massive delay, the public protest, and we're pretty sure one of our staff started crying at one point. But everyone can relax and be happy now. Rayman Legends is just a few days from release, and it's got a happy little launch trailer to prove it!

Coffee Stain Studios has announced its successful (and shiny) first person shooter/tower defense hybrid sequel Sanctum 2 will make its way to PSN on September 10th. That's a worldwide release, too, so even if you live in Antarctica, we're assuming you're gold.

The term "big screen TV" has changed over the years. It used to be having a 42 in projection TV in your basement meant you were the king of sporting events, but now 42 inches is on the small end of the HDTVs you see at Best Buy. Televisions are getting bigger, thinner and cheaper with picture quality that rivals the cinema. But what if you could make a TV any size you want? What if you could play videogames at 100 or 150 inches on the wall of your living room for the same price as an HDTV? That's exactly where home cinema projectors come into play. I've been demoing the Epson Home Cinema 8350 for the past month and it's made me seriously consider ditching my living room TV.