Welcome to another edition of Beyond Co-Op, the weekly news round-up where we look at the gaming news around the industry that may or may not necessarily relate to cooperative gaming. It was a fairly quiet week as many gear up for the next Xbox announcement this coming week and E3 a few weeks away - still there's a few tidbits worth mentioning.

It was a crazy week in the gaming industry this week, with announcements, politics, excitement, and of course games. As we're gearing up for E3 in just under a month lots of publishers are unveiling some new titles and others are dropping the curtain on just what has been going on. But there was one major announcement this week that caught everyone off guard - and that had to do with EA.

Last week was pretty intense as far as real news was concerned. How about some light and fluffy news about video games? To be more specific, let's talk about games that we don't normally cover, because they lack cooperative play (as far aw we know). 

It's been quite sometime since we've posted a round-up of our staff's Beyond Co-Op Reviews, but rest assured over the months we've continued to post reviews in the User Blogs section of this site. We've rounded up some of the biggest games from this Spring in this special issue of Beyond Co-Op including such titles as Bioshock Infinite and StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, the weekly piece that looks at gaming news around the industry that may or may not related to co-op gaming. There's a few stories this week, mostly surrounding game announcements and Kickstarter - all relying on nostalgia.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, the weekly piece where we look at some of the biggest news around the gaming industry that may or may not pertain to cooperative gaming. This week's news is marred by the death of one of the oldest gaming studios out there and then turn around and highlighted by what the gaming industry has become - Kickstarter.  It seems all three news items today come from PC gaming roots.

Ah, Easter weekend. A time for many of us to get together with family, eat lots of food, and pass out in a chocolate coma. A time for gamers to spend the weekend tending to the backlog. A time for, well you get the picture. There was a lot of news in the gaming community this week, thanks mostly in part to GDC 2013 in San Francisco. Oh, and the release of Bioshock Infinite (or GotyShock, as I lovingly call it). Finally, we bear witness to another machination from Hideo Kojima.

It's the weekend! A time to relax, play games, and catch up on all that non-cooperative gaming news of the past week in Co-Optimus' Beyond Co-Op feature. This time around we've got a very exciting announcement for NES platformer fans, the Final Fantasy X remake gets an added bonus on the PS3, and Supergiant Games is back in action with their newest title, Transistor. All in all, some very exciting news this week with perhaps even more to be revealed as PAX East 2013 is just getting underway.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, the weekend piece that rounds up some of the more interesting stories of the week from the industry outside of the strictly co-op sphere. This week we have some exciting news for fans of old PC fan-favorites Thief and Planescape: Torment.

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 set sail with Assassin's Creed 4 and Cliffy B speaks out in favor of Micro Transactions.

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 major event booking, developer opinion of the gaming industry, and a great iOS game that went on sale. 

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, the weekly piece 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 leaks, gas powered purchases, and mystery layoffs from an industry giant. 

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, the weekly piece where we look at interesting news around the gaming and entertainment industry that may not directly pertain to cooperative gaming culture.  There's a lot to look at this week including a possible PlayStation 4 unveiling, and Warcraft movie.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, the weekly piece where we look at interesting news around the industry that main not directly pertain to cooperative gaming culture.  This week's news is a big one with a major playing in the gaming industry folding and selling off its major studios to other publishers in the industry.  Let's take a look at how THQ Officially dissolved itself and where some of its hottest properties have ended up.

Beyond Co-Op returns after its end of year hiatus with chock full of news straight out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las, Vegas.  CES 2013 was this week and it was full of technology goodness that you'll want to add to your living room.  Let's take a look at some of the highlights.