A bunch of staff are going to be streaming Risk of Rain Beta this Sunday night, an indie rogue league co-op platformer shooter thingy game-a-ma-jig. Yeah, that's the official genre. So be sure to check that out. There's a good variety of games otherwise being played by the staff, here's what's going down.

Sony has officially announced the details of their next gen trade in program. Originally talked to at Gamescom 2012, Sony will provide a way for gamers to easily upgrade to digital versions of select PlayStation 4 games for a discounted price of $9.99 when they purchase the PS3 versions. Four of the most anticipated titles fill the list of e...

A North American release for Tales of Xillia 2 was announced earlier today at the Tokyo Game show for sometime in 2014. Tales of Xillia 2 launched November of 2012 in Japan and though critically well received, sold a modest half million copies. Such an underwhelming performance in sales may have led to publisher Namco Bandai to delay publishing the title on this side of the pond. Co-op JRPGs are something of a rarity so any opportunity to play through compelling character arcs with friends is always a welcome event.

Microsoft and Capcom Vancouver revealed new information regarding both Dead Rising 3’s co-op portion and a whole new weapon type never seen before in the series: Super-combo weapons! Before we get into the new weapons portion, we are happy to relay that a drop-in/drop-out co-op feature has been confirmed for Dead Rising 3! Pop into you...

It was six months ago that Serellan put Takedown: Red Sabre on Kickstarter to fun a hardcore tactical shooter, one that would return to the roots planted by games like the original Rainbow Six or SWAT on PC. It's a hardcore co-op experience that requires teamwork and coordination to be successful. Today the game releases on PC, and though an Xbox Live Arcade version was planned to release at the same time, a last minute certification glitch has caused an indefinite delay.

In this episode of Indie-Ana Co-Op, we are gaming with the developers at Hopoo Games, the creative team behind Risk of Rain. This is a rather unique game that blends elements from a few different genres: action platformers, rogue-likes, and science fiction. Paul Morse, the lead game designer at Hopoo Games, talks about how ...

EA announced an interesting DLC offering for SimCity this month that’s tied to a charitable cause. Starting in September and going on for a year, the Red Cross can turn up in your city and help with disaster relief efforts.

Creative Assembly launched the second patch for Total War: Rome 2 on Tuesday. Restarting Rome 2 will update the game client to the newest version automatically. While the patch does work with current Rome 2 saves, any saves after the patch will be incompatible with previous versions. The patch addresses a whole slew of gameplay, technical, and graphical issues with some tweaks to AI routines and pathing concerns. The full patch notes are available at the Total War Wiki.

We have ourselves another patch to fix up both the online multiplayer and Zombies modes in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Primarily, these changes were made due to the new issues found within the most recent DLC map pack, “Apocalypse”. No major additions to the game were made, however, just a whole bunch of minor tweeks and alterations to p...

The SteelSeries Siberia V2 are my go to headsets on PC. The solid build and sound quality combined with the integrated USB soundcard make it a great pair of cans to use just about anywhere. Perhaps one of the underrated features of the Siberia headsets is just how comfortable they are. Today SteelSeries have announced a brand new version called the SteelSeries SIberia Elite and it raises the bar in just about every feature while retaining a lot of the same design features.

The various game bundles doing the rounds in recent years have been great for fans of cheap gaming, but also fans of charity.  We have featured Humble Bundles before and once again they have released the co-op goodies in Humble Indie Bundle 9.  Pay as much as you like for Trine 2, but pay over the average (currently standing at $4.70) to get a whole lot more, including more co-op games.

The game started by another name, Alien Fear, but that's not all that has changed for the upcoming PC, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network title now called Alien Rage. While originally the game was slated to feature some sort of cooperative gameplay, we can confirm now that we have a review build in our hands Alien Rage does not feature co-op play.