It's natural to be wary of a new Aliens game. The last one was a Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance-like trainwreck, after all. Still, the new third-person shooter formerly known as Aliens: Fireteam comes from an entirely different developer and publisher, Cold Iron Studios and Focus Home Interactive, and it looks pretty sweet. The game has recently been rebranded as Aliens: Fireteam Elite, and it will be releasing on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam on August 24.

Borderlands 3 is one of the biggest co-op shooters around. It's not exactly hard to find other players with which to co-op loot-shoot, but more potential players is usually better, right? As of today's update, finding online co-op partners should be even easier; crossplay (cross-platform multiplayer) has finally come to most versions of Borderlands 3. The update also adds permanent seasonal event toggling, a new level cap increase, and more.

The next entry in the Dark Picture Anthology, House of Ashes, now has an official release date as well as a story trailer. This will be the third installment in the anthology, after Man of Medan and Little Hope, and there are another five (yes, FIVE!) planned before it's concluded. That's a lot of Dark Pictures! 

We're still getting caught up on some of the news and game announcements from E3 and Keighley's Summer Game Fest, and one title that sounds very promising for all us Left 4 Dead fans is The Anacrusis, the first game from new development studio Stray Bombay. The studio was co-founded by Dr Kimberly Voll and Chet Faliszek, who have plenty of experience betwixt them, and in an interview back in 2019 when the studio was first announced, Chet said "we wanted to start a studio that made co-op games."

The Overcooked series and the recently released Lumberhill have proven that you can make a fun party game out of pretty much any job. The next career/task to get the party game treatment is the professional moving business, in the form of Get Packed: Fully Loaded from Coatsink Software. Get Packed launched as a timed Stadia exclusive last year...

In my infinite quest to find the perfect PC gaming headset, I've gotten pretty close to perfection, but always came up short. ROCCAT's latest entry into the mix, the ROCCAT Syn Pro Air, seems a worthy contender on the surface. Our latest look dives below the back of the box to see if this is the headset to use in your da...

Tripwire Interactive has done a terrific job of supporting Killing Floor 2 since the co-op FPS launched on PC and consoles more than four years ago. Every year, the game receives multiple new maps and additions that help keep the cooperative experience fresh and addictive. The latest free update, 'Interstellar Insanity,' adds a new map...

Zombie Army 4, Rebellion's co-op shooter, isn't shy about downloadable content. The game is currently in the middle of Season 3 of its post-release DLC. A new premium mission has just landed along with cosmetic items and weapons. Most excitingly, though is the addition of four playable characters from Valve's Left 4 Dead series. And eve...

We've been overwatching Red Solstice 2: Survivors since we checked out the game's alpha a month ago. Now in its final form we dive into the full co-op experience with our squad of four to take on some of the single player story and into the meat of the game's skirmish mode. 

One of the bigger nostalgia trips for gamers of a certain age/generation is the Dark Alliance series, which had their heyday in the PS2/Original Xbox/Gamecube era. These action-RPGs provided a Diablo-like experience long before Diablo III was even a twinkle in Blizzard's eye. Today, a new entry, Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, has emerged for PC, PlayStation 4/5, and Xbox One/Series, and initial response is... well, it's not great.

When we reviewed Earth Defense Force: World Brothers, the recent EDF spin-off from Yuke's and D3 Publisher, we mostly had a great online co-op experience. The Steam version of the game, however, inexplicably suffered from region-locked lobbies. (The PlayStation and Switch versions weren't affected.) Workarounds will no longer be necessary when playing with folks from other places, thankfully, because the region locking has now been fixed!