This past July, Trendy Entertainment dropped some new DLC ("Protean Shift") for their free-to-play tower-defense/third-person action title, Dungeon Defenders II. There have been a couple of updates since then - notably the one last month that increased the rewards received when playing with additional players - and last week, there was a hotfix that refined that system even further. Now, playing with additional players not only gets you more experience, but guaranteed better gear.

In a new video, developer Introversion shows off Alpha footage from the recently released multiplayer update for their prison building/management simulator, Prison Architect. The two developers highlight their online co-op construction while explaining how the drop-in/drop-out works and their constant tweaks and updates.

In the newest video for the upcoming BioWare game, Anthem, the developers have laid out the basics for how players will interact with the world and, in return, how the world will be able to influence the player; be it through the people you’ll meet, the places you’ll explore, or the monsters you’ll fight. While the world of Anthem is a creation of the developers, they intentend for what happens in that world and what story the players tell with their time in-game to remain up to them.

Bossa Studios' Surgeon Simulator makes its way onto the Nintendo Switch today, complete with local co-op play so you and a buddy can work together to definitely save people and not put a TV where their organs used to be. Nope. You'd never do that.

Turn based strategy game, Jagged Alliance: Rage! will be hitting PCs by the end of this month. Announced for September 27th, the mercenaries focused franchise will get its first new game in years with proper cooperative support. Console versions on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will launch on November 6th.

The Forsaken expansion to Destiny 2 dropped last week, and we've been taking it for a spin recently to see what all Bungie has tweaked, changed, and added. We have five (yes, five!) "Let's Play Co-Op" videos for you today as show off different parts from the game and provide some in-depth impressions of this new DLC.

Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord is an ambitious game. In development for the past few years, the game is the first full on sequel to the previous title which saw numerous expansions over the years. The series is famous for it's open world, sandbox style gameplay combined with an incredibly satisfying combat mechanic. 

OVERKILL's the Walking Dead is set to hit this November 6th on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with four player online co-op in tow.  PC gamers that pre-order the title from the PayDay developer will get access to an exclusive closed beta. Today, the date and details of that beta have been revealed.

Admit it - we all get tired of being the good guy sometimes.  The kindly folks over at LEGO (or, more specifically, Traveller's Tales) recognize this, which is why LEGO DC Super-Villains is heading our way on October 16th.  Hopefully, the game will let you dip a toe into the realms of immorality, but instead of dealing with any real consequences, you'll be faced with more cute-sy, "oh no my plastic arms fell off" outcomes.

In many previous years of this column, fall has meant detailing launches of new MMOs; however, these days fall usually means new expansions and content updates to existing MMOs. This month for MMOCO, we’ll be looking at a couple of upcoming updates to TERA and FFXIV. We also sadly have the closure of Carbine Studios (and thus, WildStar) to di...

It's been sometime since I've reviewed a keyboard for Co-Optimus, with my last official review actually being the one I'm reviewing today's predecessor. But since that time I had fully switched to a Razer Black Widow Chroma that served me well for a number of years. But like my SteelSeries mouse impressions piece stated, the software and glitches became too numerous to stay invested in the Razer ecosystem so I dove in headfirst to an all SteelSeries lineup. The final piece of that puzzle is the SteelSeries Apex M750 RGB mechanical gaming keyboard.

Can you believe another week's done and dusted?  It feels like it was just yesterday that Jason was yelling at the Co-Opticrew to finish our morning serving of porridge and crowd back into the co-op mines.  "Ah well," I remember telling Marc on the way down, "at least we got that extra day to let the cartridge dust work its way out of our lungs."  We shared a somber smile then, knowing the darkness of the mines would soon shroud our faces beyond recognition.  My, how time does seem to slip away...