You know what's better than booty?  More booty.  Bountiful amounts of booty.  And in the Age of Booty, booty was plenty.  But now we have more booty than the Age of Booty can handle.  

PlayStation 3 owners have a lot of downloading to do if they want to catch up to the Xbox 360's Resident Evil 5 demo count.  Microsoft has released a short press releasing stating that Capcom's controversially controlling co-op game demo has been download 1.8 million times since its release a little less than 2 weeks ago.

According to the official Sega America blog, Phantasy Star Portable for the PSP has had its release date moved up to March 3rd, 2009!  PSP on the PSP (huh?) was released in Japan last year and has been undergoing translation, localization and updates for a March 24th release date.  But I hear they hired the guy that translated Zero Wing so the game will be done a few weeks early!

The co-op releases keep on rolling out this week!  Puzzler Lonpos is available on WiiWare this week.  The game was a launch title for WiiWare in Japan, so it has definitely been a while in coming.  Lonpos allows two players to take turns placing pieces in the ever-diminishing open spots.  It looks like Tetris meets Mancala, doesn't it?  The game will set you back 800 points and is available now!  You can check out one review of the game here.

Several new videos from White Knight Chronicles are up at Gametrailers.com.  The game, an RPG from Factor 5, invaded Playstation 3 consoles in Japan in late 2008, and is due to hit the US in late March.  At first, the big draw for the game was the epic single player campaign, featuring a character who transformed into a giant, mecha-esque White Knight, as pictured above.  That alone made the game interesting.  However, we here at Co-Optimus are more interested in the four player online co-op mode, announced much later in the game's development.

After a myriad of casual friendly arcade releases like Mahjong and Interpol, Microsoft is finally launching a hardcore gamers title in R-Type Dimensions for the Xbox Live Arcade. 

First it was the rainbows...then the Carebears...now this?

The official Playstation blog announced this morning that the Resident Evil 5 co-op demo is available on the Playstation Network today. Capcom-Unity's Shawn Baxter offered his PSN ID and some words of wisdom regarding the control scheme, which some gamers (myself included) have been kinda sour about...

The Halo Wars demo hits Xbox Live this Wednesday, and to wet your appetite several outlets have posted their impressions of the game.  

As Nick pointed out in his “2008 Co-Op Year in Review” article, there were certainly a lot of co-op titles released last year.  Some of these captured the essence of what a co-op game is all about, and some could have taken a page from those games’ design doc.  While we’ve gone over the general gameplay experiences and specific pluses/minuses for all of these titles in our reviews, it’s worth taking a look back over the successes and failures of 2008’s co-op releases to identify exactly what distinguished a “must play” from a “bargain bin” title.

We've got one co-op release this week and it's a "classic" 360 and PS3 game.  Burnout Paradise hits the PC on February 6th, over a year after its console counterpart.  The good news is - it's cheap and it includes a ton of the downloadable content previously available to console owners.

It's time to survive the zombie apocalypse (again) with this month's Xbox Live Co-Op Night.  Left 4 Dead is our game of choice and we'll be playing all night on February 12th, 2009.  Want to join in on the fun?  Read on to find out how.