Last year, Polish developer Event Horizon released a follow-up to their popular CRPG, Tower of Time. The new game, Dark Envoy, has received a steady stream of updates since launch, addressing player feedback and adding new features. The "Director's Cut" update arrived this week, bringing even more improvements. Given that Dark Envoy supports 2-player online co-op, now looks like a great time to give it a shot.
In the long-ago days of the early 1990s, a sci-fi RPG called Star Control II came out on PC and 3DO, and it knocked the socks right off of anyone who played it. Now, the creators of the series are working on a modern sequel called Free Stars: Children of Infinity. This will be the first installment in the series to feature 2-player online co-op, an early stretch goal for the fundraising campaign. The Kickstarter will end on Friday, May 17 at 11 PM PT, and before that happens, it needs more support in order to fund the addition of voice acting. Let's make it happen, co-op lovers!
Folks have always wondered what it's like to be a vampire, and thanks to the magic of video games, it's now possible to find out. Stunlock Studios' V Rising launched on Steam this week, and it allows players to become a dangerous vampire lord. The game features open world gameplay and the ability to play cooperatively in PvE or competitively in PvP. It also has some Castlevania DLC which is pretty rad.
The wait for Earth Defense Force 6 has been a long one. In fact, some folks say that you could stretch the delay between the Japanese and Western releases of EDF 6 around the earth at least twice. I mean, the game arrived in Japan in August 2022, and we still don't have an English version. That injustice will finally be rectified when EDF6 arrives on PlayStation and Steam in North America and Europe on July 25 of this year. Are you ready to save the earth from the aliens' attack, recruits?
Half the appeal of Funko Pop toys is the wide range of licenses that get made into figures. You can get Sonic, TMNT, Ghostbusters, and all kinds of Pops. After many years, some of that fun is finally coming to video games in the form of Funko Fusion for consoles and PC. It's due out in September from 10:10 Games and Skybound Games.
River City Girls 2 is one of the best beat 'em ups on this dying planet of ours. Since it launched at the end of 2022, the game has received some welcome updates that added 4-player online co-op and improved the combo system. Given that RCG2 already has cameos from Billy and Jimmy Lee of Double Dragon fame (and Marian is an unlockable character), fans have naturally suggested that the Double Dragon brothers should graduate to playable characters. Today, WayForward announced that it's going to happen!
Konami’s 1989 and 1991 TMNT arcade games stand as two of the most successful co-op arcade games of all time. In 2017, Raw Thrills (makers of the Fast & Furious arcade games) gave the license a shot as well, releasing a third arcade game that was simply titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That arcade game has finally been ported to home c...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is now available on consoles and Steam, bringing the 2017 Raw Thrills arcade game home at last. GameMill Entertainment and Raw Thrills have added three new stages to the game, kicking the number of bosses up from 7 to 13. Let's check them out! Bebop Wrath of the Mutants is based...
Jeff Minter is a long-haired English video game developer who got his start creating games for European computers in the early 1980s. Nowadays, Minter is best known for the Tempest series, but he has created an astounding number of games, usually by himself or with very small teams. Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story from Digital Eclipse celebrates t...
Vampire Survivors is such an influential game that lots of games in the same style are popping up, but I bet you already knew that. Each game needs to differentiate itself with a unique theme. The recently released Outer Terror has a horror theme, for instance, and now Sunsoft's Ikki Unite has come along with a feudal Japanese setting. This one is a sequel to a classic Japanese arcade game, but it has lots of Vampire Survivors style and 16-player online co-op to make it appealing to modern gamers. After first appearing on Steam, Ikki Unite is now available on Switch as well.
Cooperative sports games are almost as rare as unicorns, but they do happen from time to time. Goons: Legends and Mayhem from RageCure Games and Firestoke is one such game, an arcade-style hockey game that happens to support 3-player local co-op and online co-op (and even combinations of local and online players). That's special enoug...
In the last few years, lots of Vampire Survivors-style games have popped up. One such title is Outer Terror from VoxPop Games. This one distinguishes itself with a greater focus on story and horror, not to mention a cool 3D-angled perspective. After first appearing on Steam last year, Outer Terror has now arrived on consoles thanks to the porting specialists at Ratalaika.
