As if Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - a game about killing hordes of evil with medieval weapons - needed any more reason to be awesome, the game has received its first true expansion pack via the Winds of Magic, which adds weapons, maps, enemies, and a game mode. The expansion, which requires the base game to play, is available now on PC for $19.99. However, if you have a friend - and we here at Co-Optimus do enjoy games more with friends - who purchased the content they can invite you into their game even if you haven’t bought it yet.

No Man’s Sky, the game that has walked the path from criticism to redemption, remains vigilant to shift and shape itself to add features that have been teased or promised since it launched three years ago. The Beyond update arrived on Wednesday and brought with it three main pillars of features: better and true Online multiplayer, Virtual Reality support, and just better everything in the form of the not fully disclosed “2.0”.

There's been a lot of good words floating around out there about the forthcoming "Iceborne" expansion for Monster Hunter: World. The quality-of-live improvements, in particular, have been appreciated, but there's a lot of content there, too. There's also been a few bad words floating around: delayed release on PC. It wasn't clear how long PC players would have to wait, but Capcom cleared that up: January 2020.

Here's a surprise: a Bubble Bobble sequel will arrive soon. Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is coming to the Nintendo Switch and will support four player couch co-op. The original is, apparently, hugely popular in Europe so if you live there, you'll be getting the game first on November 19, 2019. Fans in the U.S. will need to wait until sometime "first quarter 2020" to play.

A few weeks back, Gearbox released a character trailer for Zane, one of the the four new Vault Hunters you'll get to play in the forthcoming Borderlands 3. They've been releasing a new trailer featuring a different character every few days since, and we've gone ahead and collected them all here for your viewing entertainment. Meet ...

After 11 years, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance series has a new entry with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. It's a game that feels like a modern take on the button-mashing, isometric, action-RPG (aRPG), even if it's not always entirely sure what that "take" should be....

Video games are coming from all kinds of places these days; from big "AAA" developers to one-man passion projects, some say that it's never been a better time to play games. Certainly, with the increase in people making games, it's no surprise we're also seeing more co-op titles because who doesn't love playing games with friends? A few students from Supinfogame Rubika are working on a couch co-op action/adventure game called Fable for Two, and you can play the first couple chapters now for free!

Nearly 10 years after the release of the first Trine, Frozenbyte has announced that a fourth iteration is on the way for the 2.5D action/puzzle franchise.  Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince bears a spooky title and even spookier release date - October 8th.

Summer’s beginning to wind down and the school year is starting up again. For this issue of MMO Co-Opportunities, we’ll be highlighting new console versions of Black Desert Online and DC Universe Online as well as an upcoming update to EverQuest II. Let’s dive in....

Rebellion’s upcoming Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition for Nintendo Switch has received a trailer that proudly touts the October 1st, 2019 release date. While the game was originally available in 2014 on PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and 4, this Ultimate Edition of Sniper Elite 3 will be the first time the long-running Sniper Elite franchise has reached a Nintendo platform since the WiiU version of Sniper Elite V2 in 2013. Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch version are available now for $39.99 but you can catch the full release date trailer below.

The Co-Opticrew is heading to school this weekend, butt-kickin' school.  Whose butt is getting kicked?  Hard to say at the moment, but we'll probably find out when everyone tries to sit down in their office chairs on Monday.  Not all of us are heading down a path of violence, though.  Some of the staff are exploring the galaxy or a mysterious landmass.  While those plans could also easily turn violent, let's hope for nice, peaceful journeys.

At the end of every month, we Xbox Live Gold members are on the edge of our seats for the new games that will become free the following month, and the recently-released game lineup for August 2019 does not disappoint. Beginning August 1st, 2019, Gears of War 4 is free to anyone who is an Xbox Gold member, with Forza Motorsport 6 becoming free August 15th, with Gears of War remaining free until August 31st and Forza free until Sep 15th. Both games are only available on Xbox One, as the Xbox 360 is given its own games for the program.