Contra: Operation Galuga is the next game in Konami's long-running run-and-gun shooter series, and it's due out in less than a week. The game's soundtrack just launched a few days ago, and now there's even more reason to get excited for Operation Galuga's tuneage. Konami and WayForward have announced that gamers who own cer...

The highly anticipated Contra: Operation Galuga from WayForward and Konami is due out in March, and we finally know a little about the game's soundtrack as well. The album will be composed by and released by Yuko Komiyama and Norihiko Hibino and released on March 5, a week ahead of the game. To get gamers pumped, Konami has released an exciting soundtrack preview video.

Scarlet Moon's Prescription for Music is a series of albums featuring piano/jazz covers from classic and modern games. The latest entry in the series, Prescription for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies Volume III, has now been released on digital music platforms. The album features 12 tracks from 11 classic games, including songs from two co-op titles: Diablo and Legend of the Mystical Ninja.

Fans waited many years for Dead Island 2, the sequel to the classic first-person zombie killing game. This year, the game finally became a reality thanks to Dambuster Studios and Deep Silver. Teaming up with friends to battle the undead in 3-player online co-op is even more fun than before thanks to the well-written story, great graphics, and a killer soundtrack. That soundtrack is now available to buy and/or stream in a variety of platforms.

Scarlet Moon Records, the leading producer of video game music albums, recently announced the thirteenth album in its long-running Prescription for Sleep series. The new album, Prescription for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies Volume III (several albums in the series aren't numbered), will include 12 piano/jazz renditions of songs from classic games. Most excitingly for us, two of the cover songs will come from co-op games: Diablo and Legend of the Mystical Ninja.

It's hard not to be excited for Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story, the shoot 'em up from Hound Picked Games that launches on April 13. After all, it features 4-player local co-op! That's a lot of shooting. Of course, shmups certainly benefit from quality music, and this one features a musical score from composer Dale North. Scarlet Moon Records has already released the soundtrack on digital storefronts, so grab it now to hear what the game will sound like.

As the release of  New Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja fast approaches, things are looking good in the music department. The game itself is a gorgeous HD remake of the classic co-op action-platformer in which a pair of heroic cavemen battle evil cavemen and dinosaurs. Microids, New Joe & Mac's publisher, has recently launched its own record label, Microids Records, with the New Joe & Mac soundtrack among the label's first albums. Other freshly-released soundtracks include Syberia 2, Syberia 3, Arkanoid Eternal Battle, Horse Tales, and a Flashback tribute album.

The OneUps are a video game music cover band that has been around for 20 years now. That's a long time! To celebrate their anniversary, the band is releasing a limited edition vinyl album called 20. It will feature 8 of the OneUps' best songs, including one from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game! Check out our quick impressions before you preorder the super limited-edition record.

Bandai Namco’s Taiko no Tatsujin series of drum-based rhythm games has appeared on every major console this generation, but none more than Nintendo Switch. Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival marks the franchise’s fourth Switch entry. This installment kicks things up a notch with the new 4-player co-op DON-Chan Band mode, the addictive G...

October is the spookiest month of the year, so creepy music is certainly in order. To celebrate the season, Scarlet Moon Productions has released Scarlet Moon Halloween Volume I on digital storefronts. The album features a total of seven tracks from DOOM, Metroid, Castlevania, and other scary and/or gothic games. It's a festive and catchy album, to be sure.

It's a musically inclined week this week for co-op gamers with not one, but two music video game releasing. On top of that we have a game coming out that I mistakingly though was out last week. 

If music be the food of love, play on; and if said music also gives me achievement points, play harder. Fantasia: Music Evolved is a 2 player co-op musical extravaganza coming to Xbox 360 and Xbox One later in the year.  Many of the tunes are magical, whilst some are just manic.