The demon is coming... and I shall be prepared for him...

Renegade Ops is a beautiful twin stick shooter from Avalanche Studios, the makers of Just Cause 2. Does it play as well as it looks? Find out in our Co-Op Review.

This week in co-op releases we'll get the highly anticipated final part in a flagship trilogy, a co-op racing game, and a Bunch of Heroes will try to save the earth from an alien zombie invasion. 

The Summer of Arcade has come and gone and we're just now starting to see how the myriad of co-op titles did.  With several big co-op games in the promotion - including Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Fruit Ninja Kinect wrapped up by Crimson Alliance there was a lot vying for your summer dollar.  

Netflix dropped a bombshell on its customers late last night announcing it was splitting it's DVD by mail service and streaming service into two separate companies.  While a major price increase was announced just months ago, this announcement was supposed to be the grand plan all along...or so it seems.  With that Netflix is becoming a streaming media only company while their new DVD service is being called Qwikster.

PlayStation Plus Members (and a few lucky members on our Facebook page) managed to get access to the Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One beta this past week.  It's a bit odd to have a beta for a platformer, something that's typically reserved for first person shooters trying to do balance and server tweaks before launch, but All 4 One game isn't your typical platformer.

Capcom Arcade is a multi-game app for iPhone and iPad that lets players sample and purchase classic Capcom titles. The latest addition to the app: Final Fight, one of the all-time classic co-op beat-em-ups.

Epic’s Director of Production, Rod Fergusson, recently revealed numerous details about Gears of War 3 via a live video stream. Of chief interest are the game’s downloadable content details. First off, Epic will be selling a Season Pass that includes the first four major DLC releases for 2400 Microsoft Points. That’s a savings of $10 as the items will cost 3600 Points separately. Sure, you could wait a year and get them on sale for even less than the cost of the Season Pass, but who wants to get so far behind in Gears 3’s multiplayer? Actually, at least one piece of content will add to the single-player campaign and apparently be more significant than Gears of War 2’s “Road to Ruin” Deleted Scene.

The Dead Nation “Road of Devastation” DLC we mentioned earlier this month is coming around sooner than expected: September 27, to be precise. It’s going to cost an affordable $3.99, according to a post from the game’s designer at The Playstation Blog.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.

EA just sent along the first Battlefield 3 trailer taken directly from the Xbox 360 console, up until this point, the trailers and gameplay for the game have been from the PC or PlayStation 3 version.  

Cooler temperatures and a hint of fall are in the air.  You know what that means: there are many, MANY new games available to play.  The fall rush of video game releases is keeping your friendly neighborhood Co-Optimus staff very busy this weekend.  One lucky staffer is playing a game so new, it hasn't even been released yet!  Are we living in the future or what?