The Serious Sam games have always been about good mindless cooperative fun. Not only is Serious Sam an entertaining franchise, it's also a showcase for Croteam's Serious Engine. It's been a few years now since we saw Serious Sam II but it appears everyone's favorite self promoting t-shirt wearing hero is about to make a comeback, and he's bringing a new 3D engine with him.
The Star Trek movie is doing amazing at the box office, and rightfully so. Now the tie-in title hits the Xbox Live Arcade today with a six player co-op mode.
The 8-Bit aliens return in all their HD glory, complete with thumping techno soundtrack and four player cooperative mode. We blast off and take a look at the latest iteration of the Space Invaders franchise for the Xbox Live.
Who's ready to mop the floor with some terrifying "Specimen" in the exciting new first person shooter/survival horror game, The Killing Floor? Oh, did we mention it was actually built around the bare essentials of co-op? Hopefully we have the attention of PC first person shooter fans, so here's the 411 on The Killing Floor.
All signs are pointing to some quality co-op action in Capcom's upcoming sequel, Lost Planet 2. What could be better than teaming up to take down huge monsters from the inside and out?
Yesterday, Infinity Ward Community Manager Robert Bowling posted on Twitter that a 10-page exclusive reveal of Modern Warfare 2 would be featured in the next issue of Game Informer.
Awwwwwwwwww, look at the puppy! Screw seeing the future in the latest Fable 2 DLC, I want to see more PUPPIES!
It's a good week to be a fan of old school co-op! One of the most beloved franchises in co-op history is headed to the Wii. The appropriately titled Contra Rebirth will be released on Japan's WiiWare service next week. As you can tell from the screenshots above, Contra Rebirth is quite retro, looking like it popped up out of a Super Nintendo cartidge.
Our Bothan spies have returned with several new details for the recently announced Star Wars title. The biggest news is that Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes will feature online cooperative play for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. This goes along with local co-op as well as drop-in and drop-out support for two players.
Last week we reported that Gunstar Heroes, the Sega Genesis classic, would be returning to the Xbox Live Arcade. Today, Sega has officially confirmed the rumors stating that not only would the game find it's way to the Xbox Live Arcade with 2 player local and online co-op, but to the PlayStation Network as well.
After numerous delays, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel has finally hit the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game features a four player co-op mode that allows gamers to meet up both locally and online at the same time. There's also drop-in and drop-out support so at any time you can bring a friend in for some dragon slaying action.
Our friends at Loot Ninja have worked up an editorial not too dissimilar from our 2008 retrospective "Co-Op Successes and Failures" (by Jason Love) and more recent "Innovations in Co-Op Gaming" (by Katrina Pawlowski feat. the staff)...the Loot Ninja staff seek the definitive answer to a question that has been hounding our forum-goers for several months now: Do All Games Need Multiplayer or Co-Op?
