Atlus announced that it will publish the co-op multiplayer action game Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains for the Nintendo 3DS in North America and Europe next month.

Welcome back to Beyond Co-Op, your weekly roundup of the other news going on in the gaming world! With the Tokyo Game Show going on this week, you'd expect some news to come out of there, but most things seem to revolve around Grand Theft Auto V.

Two new gameplay videos have been released by Atlus for the upcoming PS3/Vita brawler Dragon's Crown. Vanillaware has really outdone itself with some fine, fine artwork, hence the loads of trailers and screenshots that have been trickling out over the last few months.

Like so much warm dragon-made honey (note: fact check that before publication... maybe), Atlus has released a delicious tidbit of news for its upcoming Vanillaware-made brawler Dragon's Crown. Players who grab the game during the first month after launch will have free access to the voice pack DLC, a cosmetic add-on that allows you to swap the narrator's voice with the voices of any of the six playable characters. After a month has passed the DLC will cost $1.99, which isn't very much, but we'll take every freebie we can get.

After all the teases and quick looks, Atlus has finally released a video that shows a significant amount of gameplay from Zeno Clash II. The first person melee game is set in a surreal world where combat is as combo-heavy as it is hands-on. No fair using guns to pick foes off from a distance. Here, you actually have to step in and get some blood splattered in your face. It's a bit like Mirror's Edge with a lot more punching. Wait, let's go back and write that again with emphasis: a lot more punching.

If you could get a demon's soul pretty much for free, you totally would, wouldn't you? And how about Demon's Souls for free, while you're at it? The pleasantly punishing role playing game that's famous for being about as forgiving as a swift kick to the face is slated to be free for PlayStation Plus members for the month of April. Several other games will also but free, but... Demon's Souls!

Release date time! ACE Team and Atlus recently announced the first person melee fighting game Zeno Clash II will hit Steam on April 30th, with the XBLA and PSN releases to come at a later date. Pre-orders for the PC release have also opened up, featuring several options that include discounts, free copies of Zeno Clash for you and/or your pal, plus a bonus digital soundtrack and artbook.

If there's one thing we can say about Dragon's Crown, it's that it's a gorgeous, gorgeous game. If there's two things, it's that the 11 month silence since Atlus rescued the game has been a long wait. The sidescrolling brawler created by Vanillaware is one part Golden Axe and one part Castle Crashers, although most will agree that the artwork is what's really going to draw some attention.

The first person melee brawler Zeno Clash, which is second only to Mirrors Edge in its ability to cause motion sickness, has a sequel on the way. Zeno Clash II looks just as bizarre and intriguing as the original, and as the trailer below illustrates, in the world of Zenozoik it's perfectly acceptable to replace your lower lip with a painter's palette.

If there's one thing the good people of Atlus know how to do, it's promote the heck out of a game. Case in point: they've just released a third trailer for Code Princess, the 3DS beat-em-up/RPG that's coming in October. Okay, Atlus has another specialty: beautiful premium packaging and bonuses for launch copies of many of their titles. Code of Princess gets the deluxe packaging treatment too, providing a nice incentive for fans to preorder.

Sterilize and prep your Wii for some motion-sensitive co-op surgeries! Trauma Team, the latest installment from the Atlus hit "Trauma Center" which puts you in the surgeons scrubs, will give us a different kind of co-op to feast on. Yu Namba, Project Lead for Atlus sat down with Siliconera.com to get a few details about how this medical co-op will work.

Publishing company Atlus, best known for the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series of games, announced yesterday that it would be bringing From Software's, best known for the Armored Core series, action RPG Demon’s Souls to our shores.  Being billed as a “hardcore RPG,” this title, which saw a February release date in Japan, features the one element that we here at Co-Optimus always want to see more of: co-op.  Two other players will be able to join you in your quest to hack, slash, and quest your way through goblins, dragons, and other fantastical creatures.