Since it arrived on PlayStation and Epic last year, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria from Free Range Games and North Beach Games has amassed a dedicated following among survival game enthusiasts. Return to Moria allows players to become dwarven warriors and craftsmen who must reclaim the ruined mines of Moria. At long last, the game will finally arrive on Xbox Series S|X and Steam on August 27. That same day, the "Golden Update" will deliver cross-play co-op to all versions of the game.

As home arcade fans surely know, iiRcade is a home arcade cabinet/console for which players can legally purchase classic and modern indie games. This week, the platform’s co-op options just improved thanks to the addition of online co-op to the excellent Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III as well as the launch of a new beat ‘em up with local co-op, The Age of Heroes: Silkroad 2.

Warframe, the free-to-play action/shooter RPG, has been trucking along since 2013. Gamers can download the MMO-like space ninja game on all the big platforms, including PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. As multiplayer-focused games age, though, playerbase becomes an issue. It's hard to make war on the frames if you can't find anybody to play with. Thankfully, that will soon become less of an issue when Warframe gains cross-play and cross-save before the end of the year.

Borderlands 3 is one of the biggest co-op shooters around. It's not exactly hard to find other players with which to co-op loot-shoot, but more potential players is usually better, right? As of today's update, finding online co-op partners should be even easier; crossplay (cross-platform multiplayer) has finally come to most versions of Borderlands 3. The update also adds permanent seasonal event toggling, a new level cap increase, and more.

Dauntless, Phoenix Labs' free-to-play, Behemoth hunting action-RPG, is "Early Access" no more and rolls over to version 1.0 today. The title has seen a number of improvements and updates since its first alpha back in 2017 - including cross-save/cross-platform play, new weapons, new Behemoths to hunt, UI improvements, saved loadouts, a Hunt Pass, etc. - and there's plenty more to come.

Earlier this week, Hi-Rez Studios released patch 6.1 for their third-person MOBA, SMITE. While there are a number of tweaks and fixes and other updates in this patch, the biggest feature is making the game cross-play and cross-progression across all platforms where the game is available: PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

Amidst all that talk of how the Windows version of Final Fantasy XV will take up 170 Gb of storage space for the highest of res graphics, there was an interesting little tidbit that popped up on the Microsoft Store listing for the title. That particular version of the game will allow you to team up with friends on the Xbox One to play the Comrades content together.

Canadian developer Cellar Door Games is best known for their 2013 hit, Rogue Legacy. After getting that game out on as many platforms as possible, they switched gears to an action-RPG brawler that will be nearing its release quite soon: Full Metal Furies. They teased that a launch date reveal will be dropping next Wednesday, December 6, so until we learn when we can get our mitts on this, enjoy some videos that lay out the "ABCs."

It's Paris Games Week (because every city needs a games conference now) and Sony is there showing off some already announced titles, as well as a few new ones. Like Wonderstrucks' new IP, Boundless. From what little they showed off, it looks like a sandbox adventure game in a similar vein as Minecraft or Starbound.

Are you ready to rock?! And by "rock", I mean dive in to an endless dungeon with four friends as you tackle enemies and puzzles?! Yeah, I know you are, so let me talk to you about Super Dungeon Bros, the upcoming dungeon brawler from React! Games. Did I also mention you can rock with cross-platform support? Wailin' press release solo!

Recently announced by EA, there are no plans to bring a single player mode to Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, meaning that there’s more room for the multiplayer and co-op experiences to be expanded upon and develop. I touched upon this in our most recent Beyond Co-Op article, where I mentioned EA’s future “free-to-play&...

Spelunky is a hard enough game on its own, let alone with three other players trudging along the small space of a TV screen. Thankfully, the upcoming PlayStation Vita version will contain a feature in co-op to allow all players freedom of movement.