Congratulations to Dark Souls 2 for taking home the 2014 Golden Fitty award for Best AAA Game here at Co-Optimus. Our favorite game of last year is getting a bit of a face lift with The Scholar of the First Sin edition, due out on Xbox One, 360, PS3, PS4, and PC sometime this April. Packing in all three DLC's, as well as some new goodies, this definitive issue of DSII is being primed to totally wreck us and our brave undead cohorts with a new patch launching on February 5th.

In the latest Nintendo Direct, an announcement regarding purchasing original Wii games on the Wii U Nintendo eShop was stated. Players can now begin downloading some of their favorites of Wii games through the Wii U Nintendo eShop, some of them including co-op!

Did you think OmniConnection had forgotten about us? In the summer of 2014 the team teased its upcoming co-op wizard FPS Grimoire: Manastorm, a game that makes Harry Potter look like a tame kids' story. Now the studio has announced the game is entering open alpha, with sign-ups available to anyone with a penchant for mage battles!

It's not every day you find a mobile game with co-op. It's also not every day that said mobile game looks gorgeous and has explodey bombs, too. Eric Froemling's party game BombSquad for Android and OUYA managed to squeeze all of that into a single package.

Co-op enthusiasts may remember developer Yeti Trunk from their previous venture into the realm of cooperative gaming in Wanderlust: Rebirth, a top-down, 16-bit style, action RPG. The team has been working on a variety of projects since then, including a new entry in the "Wanderlust" series, titled Wanderlust Adventures. While the gam...

Nintendo and Capcom have announced a special edition 3DS featuring Monster Hunter branding that will be packed with the upcoming Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the system. The 3DSXL is actually a "new" 3DS with a faster processor and enhanced NFC capabilities to support Nintendo's Amiibo figures. The price of the system is set at $229....

Tragedy once again rears its tear-soaked scythe towards all of you hardcore Dynasty Warriors fans out there. Koei Tecmo announced a delay for the newest installment in the series, Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires, by a month. DW diehards will have to wait for the 24th of February in North America, and the 27th in Europe, to get their hyper-powered mitts around more peasant slaughtering. 

Recently, Turtle Rock Studios went into greater detail regarding their upcoming co-op title, Evolve, with new information regarding Monsters, the Evolve season pass, and more. Specifically, three important announcements were made that future players should be aware of.

The classic 3D version of Duke Nukem seems to be fairing much better than the more recent Duke Nukem Forever. We've seen a version of Duke Nukem 3D on XBLA last generation, and we saw PC owners get the Megaton version with improved visuals and added 8 player co-op, and now its Sony system owner's turn. 

We're all acutely aware of Assassin's Creed Unity's abysmal launch. Which was your favorite bug? The framerate plummeting to single digits? NPCs falling through the planet? Aw, who am I kidding. It's clearly people's faces melting off, fueling our nightmares for years to come. We knew the French Revolution was rough, but I don't ever recall it being referred to as "a cauldron of supernatural horror." With that said, it is finally time for Ubisoft to make due.

It's time once again for our Co-Op Game of the Year Awards. We look back at 2014 as a fairly mediocre year in terms of co-op game. While we had high hopes for many games, there were no true must have stand-outs. That's not to say there weren't some great games, it's just compared to previous years this one seems slightly more forget...

Tripwire Studios wants to prove they've been hard at work on Killing Floor 2 with some fresh screens for zombie haters. Given the amount of gore, however, I can't tell if they've been slaving away over a hot CPU or a still steaming meat grinder.