Demeo is a cooperative fantasy-themed board game from Resolution Games. After enjoying a period of early access on PC and VR platforms, the game fully launched on Steam and PlayStation 5 this year. Demeo’s appeal is clear, combining the depth and challenge of a modern board game with RPG-lite mechanics and feel, a high degree of immersion, an...
Baldur's Gate 3 is the long-awaited sequel to one of the most beloved Dungeons & Dragons video games of all time. Actually, the Steam Early Access version has been around since 2020, but the full Steam release and console versions will be launching soon. How soon? Why, the Steam version has been bumped up a bit to arrive on August 3, whereas the PlayStation 5 version will now debut on September 6. The Xbox Series S|X versions are still coming but have no firm release date yet.
Oh boy, what a month! The eyes of our Database Master are strained from watching all those showcases, and his fingers are sore from entering everything relevant into our database. The result is a stunning increase of 271 new entries. For comparison: June 2021 only saw an addition of 179 entries. So the amount of co-op fodder announced definitely increased this year, even if we factor out the "normal" releases we are adding each month.
While Darius is Taito's number one shoot 'em up series, the "Ray'z" series is a close second. Made up of three vertically-scrolling arcade shmups released from 1994-1998, the Ray'z games still command a loyal following. Now PlayStation and Switch gamers can own the entire series (or just the two newest games) via two freshly-released collections: RayStorm X RayCrisis HD Collection and Ray'z Arcade Chronology. Both collections are similar, so we'll outline what each one contains.
If you stop and think about it, managing traffic signals requires a lot of planning and observation. Many real-world tasks and careers have provided inspiration for video games over the years. However, rather than taking the dry simulation approach as many of their contemporaries would, Polish developer Baltoro made a cooperative puzzle game instea...
July will be a banner month for beat 'em up fans thanks to the impending release of Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons from Secret Base Games and Modus Games. With the game drawing nearer to launch, the publisher has just released a new trailer that provides lots of details about how the beat 'em up Roguelike will play. Even more excitingly, it also reveals four of the game's 9 unlockable characters!
You can count on summer for two things: horribly inhumane temperatures and the Steam Summer Sale. When the Summer Sale comes 'round every year, Steam slashes prices on hundreds of PC games. This year's sale includes steep discounts on games like Starship Troopers: Extinction, Sea of Thieves 2023 Edition, Monster Hunter Rise, and many more. To make things easier for cooperatively-minded gamers, we've assembled this list of co-op highlights from the sale.
Taito Milestones 2 is a Switch-exclusive collection of 10 arcade classics from Taito. The collection will feature a quality assortment of games, including three co-op shoot 'em ups: Darius II, Gun Frontier, and Metal Black. The first Taito Milestones didn't have as strong a games lineup, but collectors might still want to own them both. Hence, Strictly Limited Games has opened preorders for a bundle with physical editions of both games. For even more physical goodness, a new collectors edition and an upgrade for owners of the Taito Milestones 1 collectors edition are also up for grabs.
A couple of years ago, Finnish developer 10tons released DYSMANTLE, an action RPG with mild survival elements set in a zombie apocalypse. The studio is following up with DYSPLACED, a similar game in a new setting. This one sees players transported and displaced to a mysterious new world where they will battle Fortnite: Save the World-like mon...
Asterix the Gaul is a long-running French comic series that has been translated into English and numerous languages. French publisher Microids has released numerous video game adaptations, the most recent of which is the 4-player action game, Asterix & Obelix XXXL: The Ram From Hibernia. Microids also published a beat 'em up game called Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All! a few years back, and now it's getting a sequel. Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All! 2 will arrive on consoles and PC in November, complete with 2-player local co-op.
The first Smurfs game from, Microids, The Smurfs: Mission Vileaf, slipped under our radar back in 2021. Perhaps it was the weird subtitle? Still, Mission Vileaf was actually a really solid 3D platformer and a treat for fans of the franchise. Fast-forwarding a bit, The Smurfs 2: The Prisoner of the Green Stone will attempt to recapture the magic when it arrives this November. Like the first game, it will feature 2-player local co-op.
The first few years after a new console generation present some challenges to game developers. When should they stop supporting the previous generation and move on to the current one? Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed launched on Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 5, and Steam at the end of August last year. Earlier this year, Black Forest Games and THQ Nordic announced that the previous generation versions would go forward without multiplayer modes. Nearly a year after the current gen versions, Destroy All Humans 2 - Reprobed Single Player is finally available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
