Halo: Reach continues its Xbox Live dominance, and Campaign Matchmaking is on the way.  Bungie has posted some incredible numbers, despite what their own "Players Online" counter will tell you.  Anyone who has played Reach lately has probably seen the online players number in the triple digits.  This number might be slightly off, since the online player counter seems to have a half-million point swing.  That's a heckuva swing.  Never mind that now, here comes the co-op news.

If you're addicted to Bungie's credit system in Halo Reach, you've probably been paying close attention to the daily and weekly challenges they put out in the game.  These challenges provide a ton of bonus credits for those that complete them and to this point, Bungie has done a pretty good job of balancing these between all the game modes including single player, versus, and co-op.

A little recon birdie has recently been by the Gamestop website to check out the Call of Duty: Black Ops strategy guide.  BradyGames' Call of Duty Black Ops Limited Edition Official Strategy Guide has several features, but one in particular caught our eye.  Hint:  It's the one about co-op and Nazi Zombies.

While the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 have already flown their way onto their respective consoles, the PC version of the four player aerial combat shooter have gone MIA.  The original release date for the game was tomorrow, that's September 28th, but it appears that Ubisoft have sent out emails to those that pre-ordered stating a new launch date of November 16th.  

Legend of Little Big Planet 2: A Sackboy to the Past

As we investigate more and more of the Co-optimus Community Voice options in our blogs, the more I realize how much organization I still have to learn to keep up with you guys. Really, we’ve seen some interesting blogs, and hope to see more from the quieter side of the community. This week we have two great options for week 4 in Co-optimus Community Voice. Next month we’ll have a new topic, and we’ll hopefully get more of a handle on things for you guys. We want to know more about the co-op community, not just great co-op news and resources.

Today, we go back to the vault to revisit a pair of Co-Op Classics. This time, we take a look at them in video form. Vendetta and Fire Truck are about as different as you can get.

For PC Gamers no other input is as important as the keyboard.  For some, they live and die - in game of course - by how fast they are able to manipulate a device designed for textual input.  Steel Series is launching a successor to their popular ZBoard keyboard, a keyboard designed to accept inter-changeable keysets with custom key options for the game its based on.  The best news is - existing ZBoard keysets will work with the new Shift.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.

I'm pretty sure our staff is filled with Spartans.  Not the scantily clad, muscle bound, sexy men kind - though we're that too - but the giant humanoid saviors of the galaxy kind.  Every single one of us is playing Halo Reach this weekend, well everyone but Sam, but he's British and their funny looking money isn't accepted when trying to purchase the game.  He gets a pass.

It seems like only yesterday I was discussing how Halo: Reach has dominated the Xbox 360 charts.  This comes as no surprise, as Halo is the flagship series of Microsoft's big box.  What is intriguing is that Reach has dethroned Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. 

Firefall, a free to play MMO action game from Red 5 Studios, was announced right before PAX 2010 in Seattle.  The game was on the show floor for all to see, but details of it are still leaking out.  Gamepro checked out the the title and have brought back a nice consolidated list of features from the game.