The Indie Royale Bundle has unveiled its latest offering, packing together a handful of games for a low "pay pretty much whatever you want" price. As long as you beat the minimum, of course. This bundle is dubbed the Spiral Groove Bundle and it's all about action games. And what makes an action game even more actioney? The chance to show off your skills in co-op! All four of the games currently featured have co-op modes, so you can stop worrying about how you were going to fritter away your weekend instead of doing something that, I don't know, solves world hunger or something like that. Whew.

EA has released an Indie Bundle on Steam which features six titles for the low price of $21.  The normal asking price for all six games would total almost $70.  Best of all, five of the six include cooperative features - score!  

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Gatling Gears is what you get when you mix one part old-timey war game, a quarter cup co-op, a foundation of twin stick shooter, and some interesting design choices on the Xbox LIVE Arcade and Playstation Network. How well do these ingredients work together? Well, that’s what we set out to discover.

This week we have a late arrival for the PC and maybe, if we're lucky, we'll get some PSN love.   Better late than never, I always say.  Not a huge co-op week, but "Grand Theft Auto 1947" is coming out, or as I like to call it, "Red Dead Redemption: The Future is Cra-a-zy".

It's not too late!  Call your mom and wish her a happy Mother's Day.  If you don't, you'll get bad co-op karma. We've got some highly anticipated titles arriving this week.  Hope you're ready for them.

This issue of On The Download gets to me so much I made up a word to best illustrate how this makes gamers feel. Have you noticed that when a game comes out on one system but doesn’t hit the other systems at the same time, the later port of the game often comes with different, improved features?

Last month we had a hands-on preview of the promising Gatling Gears.  It's a twin stick shooter that has some RPG elements, plus two player local and online co-op.    You will pick up "gears" throughout the thirty-level campaign and spend them on upgrades for your battle chassis. You can then pilot your own customizable mech in your friend's game.  Today we have some new screen shots showing plenty of destruction and explosions.  As big twin stick shooter fans, Gatling Gears is one to check out when it becomes available this spring on XBLA and PSN.

As this generation of consoles age, potentially reaching the end of their cycle, it’s time to start thinking about what comes next. The one thing that we’ve been somewhat spoiled on is the digital distribution for each console, with Steam topping the sundae that is customer accessibility.

Twin stick shooters used to seem like a dime a dozen, but they really offer some of the best co-op experiences out there. A new EA published title called Gatling Gears looks to expand on the genre adding in some RPG-lite elements. We went hands on with the game at a recent event in our latest preview.