This week in co-op... we actually have some new game releases!  Oh, thanks be to the video game gods!  We have looked into the abysmal void that was the summer release schedule and reeled back from the brink of oblivion!  We have some downloadable titles out this week, along with a real life, honest to goodness, full retail title.  Get your gaming in now while you can.  Hope you've caught up on your backlog.  September 6th is a week away, and with it comes the Fall gamesplosion in all of it's time leeching glory.

The story of Deathspank comes to and end(?) with The Baconing.  If you've been following this series at all, you know just how silly these games can get.  Silly enough to title the third installment "The Baconing?"  Yes, sir.  The plot is inconsequential.  All you need to know is that a group of goofy characters will come together for some light dungeon crawling and groan inducing, hit or miss humor. This trailer showcases some of these new characters.  In true Deathspank fashion, they're worth a chuckle or an eye roll.  

The Baconing, the rather oddly named sequel to DeathSpank, has finally received concrete release dates. The Playstation 3 version debuts on Tuesday, August 30, while the Xbox 360 version lands a day later on August 31.

    The Xbox LIVE Summer of Arcade has been an oasis in the desert of mid-year gaming since 2008.  Sony has wisely set their eyes on a piece of that pie with their own program, PSN: PLAY.  Beginning on August 24th, one new title a week will be released on the  PSN.  Two of them, The Baconing a...

Hothead Games has released a new video announcing The Baconing, the follow up to Deathspank and Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue. It seems that Deathspank has vanquished all the evil that needed vanquishing, and so it was that Deathspank mourned his lost Valeria... At length he sought adventure in distant lands and trod the jeweled thrones of the earth beneath his sandaled feet. Until at last he found his own kingdom and wore his crown upon a troubled brow. Wait, that's the end of 1984's Conan the Destroyer. Never mind.  

Hothead Games have revealed the next game in the DeathSpank series and it's a sequel to DeathSpank and DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue called...The Baconing.  Dropping the DeathSpank prefix the game continues the adventures of DeathSpank as he tries on all 6 thongs at once (what? he was cold) which summons an evil power.  Since this is a mostly family friendly site, I'll withold the joke about thongs and summoning my evil power.  The only way to undo what DeathSpank started is to destroy 5 of the thongs in the fires of bacon.