Sometimes, workers just really resent their bosses. The boss looks down on them, asks them to do too much, and never provides substantial raises. Who wouldn't want to rise up and overthrow the tyrannical boss? Well, that's not what Underling Uprising is about. Oh no, this game is about a group of test subjects who rebel against the mad scientist who empowered them. This fresh, new beat em up (and Kickstarter success story) comes from Dummy Dojo and Abylight Studios, and it features 4-player local co-op.

New game announcements from WayForward are always good news, but we were especially excited to learn that the California-based developer would be creating the next game in Konami’s venerable Contra series of run-and-gun shooters. Contra: Operation Galuga is being directed by our old pal Tomm Hullett of WayForward, and it will be coming to con...

A New Black Ops 2 Title Update hit both the PS3 and Xbox 360 recently, developer Treyarch is adding even more enhancements to the game. In addition to extra fixes and balancing, a brand new game mode involving time limits has been introduced!

Shoot-em-up fans know that XBLA shmups seldom go on sale, if ever. That’s why we’re both surprised and delighted to see not one but four Xbox Live Arcade shmups on sale this week, all of them with 2-player co-op. The highlight of the sale has to be Radiant Silvergun, a port of the extremely rare Sega Saturn classic from Treasure. But heck, if you’re a fan of the genre you’re probably going to want them all.

There's a lot of co-op love in XBLA's Deal of the Week sale!  Four out of the five games feature co-op.  Hard Corps: Uprising, X-men Arcade, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Reshelled are all 50% off.  These four games have an average score of 4 out of 5 in our Co-Op reviews. Comic Jumper, and excellent single player game, is also for sale for half price.

Get out your nickles and dimes, it's that time again.  Konami has announced new DLC for the Contra-rific Hard Corps: Uprising.  Now you can pick up Leviathan, armed with a Moonsault Grenade Throw and a Slide Attack. This is the third downloadable character for Hard Corps: Uprising.  Sayuri the samurai (go figure!) and Harley the biker (you're not even trying now, Konami) were available as extra DLC characters on the game's release day, February 16th.  If you love you some Hard Corps: Uprising, leveling up these characters will add some re-playability. They'll also cost you 200 MSP apiece.  Anyone have the number to Shenaningans?  I'd like to call them. 

This issue of On The Download gets to me so much I made up a word to best illustrate how this makes gamers feel. Have you noticed that when a game comes out on one system but doesn’t hit the other systems at the same time, the later port of the game often comes with different, improved features?

Hard Corps: Uprising came out a few weeks back on Xbox Live Arcade, complete with two player local and online co-op play.  Its Contra with really, REALLY, pretty graphics.  While that sounds great, our review shed some light on the title - we liked it, but were generally annoyed by some nagging issues.

As a die-hard sidescrolling shooter fan, when I found out a new Contra game, a prequel to the underrated Genesis title Contra Hard Corps nonetheless, was being developed, I was completely stoked. How does the latest title fare? Read on and find out.

Note to self: Don't let the snipers stay alive next time.

Out today on Xbox Live Arcade is Hard Corps: Uprising - a game set in the Contra series which features two player local or online co-op.  Developed by Arc System Works, famous for their Blaz Blue series, the game is beautifully hand drawn and animated giving it a unique look that separates it from other games in the series.

Hard Corps: Uprising is kicking off th Xbox LIVE Arcade House Party this winter.  To celebrate, Konami has a brand new trailer featuring Kenji Yamamoto, the producer of the game, in full house party regalia.  Which in this case, is a party hat and one of those noise makers everybody hates.  The video is chock-full of co-op action.