Halloween may be over, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy watching Space Marines get drenched in blood as though they're heavily armored versions of Carrie White.  Thanks to the new "Ridiculously Bloody Blood Pack", Dawn of War II: Retribution will make every shotgun blast, every Tyranid bite, and every psyker strike that much gorier, and all for the low, low price of $1.99.  Just think, for the price of a cup of coffee, you could watch your digital warriors cover themselves in the inner workings of their friends and comrades.  Touching.

As November 16th creeps ever so nearer, we anticipate the release of Knight Squad on Xbox One in the full knowledge that Xbox Live Gold members will get it for $0.  At this low, low price, the game is surely worth a look, but why not find out for yourself with the new gameplay trailer.

Call of Duty back once again for its annual release, and this year's launch trailer focuses on the player instead of the story. The story for this trailer revolves around "Kevin." Representitive of every player in the game who, given the right tools, can accomplish the impossible. At least, at some esoteric level, that's what I think is being said about Call of Duty: Black Ops 3.

Hello, my fellow co-op devotees!  I, your faithful host, am here to guide you through an all new spooky edition of Weekend in Gaming.  If you think about it, I'm sorta like the Crypt Keeper, except my tales are way more mundane and have like 100% happier endings.  So... not at all like the Crypt Keeper.

The F.A.L.C.O. crew had so much fun playing Trine 2 that we decided to go back and play the original Trine. While the two games are very similar, we probably should have played them in order since we found the controls were a bit more clunky and the "skill trees" were more like "skill twigs." There aren't many options! Nonetheless, we ran through Academy Hallways and Wolvercote Catacombs, and had a jolly old time.

On Monday night I was invited to be a guest on the Gamertag Radio podcast, a truly excellent podcast that has over 500 episodes and 10 years of experience covering gaming culture. Both GTR and Co-Optimus are part of a special group of sites picked to look at Alienware's upcoming Steam Machine which launches on November 10th.

Everybody's got their favorite Halloween monstrosity. The undead (zombies, ghosts, mummies) are always popular, while the living, breathing beasts (your wolfmans, fish-persons, the Jersey Devil) have to spread what meager love they get between them. There is one particularly nasty abomination we don't hear a lot about, even in the new digital age: cyborg monstrosities. Warface is finally entrenching them as a Halloween staple with their new co-op mode, "Cyber Horde."

While the title has been out for a month, it appears that folks still have some questions about how LEGO Dimensions works and what all this "Starter Pack" and "Level Pack" nonsense. Enter Traveller's Tales with a handy video that lays it all out.

More news coming out of Paris Games Week on the Sony side of things. During their press conference on Tuesday, Michel Ancel came on stage to present the new IP he's been working called Wild. While it wasn't mentioned during the conference, it appears some form of multiplayer is being considered for the game; what's more, it may be inspired by Bloodborne.

When Star Wars meets Battlefront, everyone wins! Well, except for the guys on the ground. They all lose pretty hard. Whether they die alone from laser burns on some backwater planet, or get force choked to death by a lightsaber-wielding sociopath for failing to secure a checkpoint, their suffering is our delight. I'm sure the infantry on both sides are dreading Star Wars Battlefront's November 17th release date. However, we can celebrate with a launch trailer chock full of lasers!

We don't normally cover Kickstarter games, but sometimes a game is far enough along and is fun enough it's worth looking at. The Forgettable Dungeon is a co-op hack and slash game similar to Gauntlet, built on a voxel engine giving it a unique look and feel. It's developed by Happy Box games, a one man game development studio from Boston.

The end of each month brings with it a sense of excitement as we discover what games are coming free to Xbox Live Gold members with the Games with Gold scheme.  Like oft before, November 2015 sees some co-op games in the mix; the yet to be released Knight Squad and, the not so new, Dungeon Siege 3.