In the last few years, lots of Vampire Survivors-style games have popped up. One such title is Outer Terror from VoxPop Games. This one distinguishes itself with a greater focus on story and horror, not to mention a cool 3D-angled perspective. After first appearing on Steam last year, Outer Terror has now arrived on consoles thanks to the porting specialists at Ratalaika.
Hammerwatch II's journey to Xbox has been long and perilous. After first launching on Steam in the fall of 2023, the game finally turned up on PlayStation 5 last December. Since then, Xbox gamers who enjoyed the original Hammerwatch and the sublime Heroes of Hammerwatch have been anxiously awaiting their turn at the long-promised sequel. At last, the wait is nearly over because Hammerwatch II will hit Xbox and PlayStation 4 on April 23.
Vampire Survivors is the king of its own roguelike subgenre, having inspired numerous imitators (such as the recently released Outer Terror). Gamers in know will recognize that Vampire Survivors was partially inspired by Konami's Castlevania series. While there hasn't been any Castlevania DLC just yet, we are getting a DLC release based on Contra in May, so that's something! Also, Poncle has announced that a PlayStation version of Vampire Survivors will finally, finally be released in the summer.
When Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons arrived in July of last year, we were blown away by its exceptional stage design, fast and simple gameplay, and large array of unlockable characters. The only thing it really lacked was online co-op, but that has now been rectified. Today's "Sacred Reunion" DLC (which is really a title update) adds online co-op, Survival and Versus modes, and three new unlockable characters. It's a big update, and it's free, baby.
Some games let you become a fighter, a criminal, or a superhero. Other games let you be a bunny. Bunhouse from Reky Studios and Digerati is one of those games. The charming bunny/gardening game features 4-player local co-op and stress-free farming activities. It's already out on Switch and Steam, and it will soon arrive on Xbox and PlayStation consoles as well.
Not long ago, Secret Base and Modus Games announced that Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons will be getting a free update with online co-op and three new characters on April 4. They didn't announce the identities of all three characters at that time, however. Now we know: Yagyu Ranzou, Chin Seimei, and Sonny Lee from Double Dragon 3 are the free DLC characters. I called it!
Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons from Secret Base and Modus Games was one of the best beat 'em ups to come along in 2023, featuring nonlinear game design, a variety of unlockable characters, and an excellent soundtrack. The only missing element was online co-op. That will finally change, thankfully, when the much-requested online multiplayer update arrives on April 4, along with three new characters and more. Double Dragon fans are in for a treat!
Make me farm by myself, and I'm not having any fun. Let me farm with friends, and things get much livelier. The developers at Untold Tales realized this, and so they've just added online co-op to their 3D farming adventure, Everdream Valley. At last, a team up of up to four friends and get down and dirty together - in a colorful, family-friendly way, of course. The co-op update has arrived on Steam ahead of the console versions, but they'll be getting multiplayer in the future as well.
In the early 2000s, the Star Wars: Battlefront series captivated gamers with its combination of ground and air/space battles and large-scale multiplayer. Some years after that, EA confusingly released two new games with the same titles. Adding words to subtitles is hard! Thankfully, the newly released Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection from Aspyr Media has its own distinctive words to let us know that it's a collection of the first two Battlefronts in one convenient package. The collection is out now on consoles and Steam.
Bunnyhug and Coatsink's Moonglow Bay is a charming voxel-based fishing adventure that arrived on Xbox and Steam a few years ago. Soon, the moon will be glowing on PlayStation and Switch as well. That's good news on its own, but the existing versions will also get a big update that adds a camera mode, new quests, and other content. Everybody wins!
The Contra series of run-and-gun shooters has persisted since the debut of the original arcade game in 1986. Naturally, this includes some ups and downs, with 2019’s Contra: Rogue Corps recently failing to win over critics and fans. This led some to question whether Contra: Operation Galuga, developed by WayForward and published by Konami, wo...
Jeff Minter is known for his love of llamas and also his creation of the Tempest video game series. Now, thanks to the preservation efforts of Digital Eclipse, players can experience a huge volume of Minter's work via Llamasoft: the Jeff Minter Story. This retro collection features 42 classic games, hours of documentary material, and much more. Luckily for us, three of the included games have 2-player local co-op!
