The weekend is for being happy. The weekend is also for cyanide. Combine the two, and what do you get? Man, I don’t…
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Sackboy: A Big Adventure finally has multiplayer. Up to four-player coop was originally supposed to be available at launch but was delayed. Today’s update adds cross-gen cross-play and save transfers as well.
Today, Sucker Punch announced Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, a brand new co-op experience coming to Ghost of Tsushima…
Streets of Rage 4 will have four-player co-op according to a new trailer. While online you can only play with one other person, offline on the couch together you can punch bad guys to a pulp with three other friends, a mode that seems perfect for the Switch version.
Recently, a close friend of mine returned after having been out of town for a little while—like way out of town,…
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The beautiful blocky destruction game Riverbond is getting ported to Switch later this year. Like so many interesting games that get overshadowed on other platforms, Riverbond’s arcade-y four-player dungeoneering feels perfect for Switch. Plus, it’ll arrive alongside some new DLC world.
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You really shouldn’t play Wolfenstein: Youngblood by yourself. The new first-person shooter, out on PC today and on…
I didn’t know I needed more Contra III in my life until I started playing Blazing Chrome.
Platinum Games’ upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive, Astral Chain, involves controlling two characters at the same…
If you were paying attention to this week’s E3 announcements and also care about co-operative games, you might have…
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Shortly after the Xbox briefing at E3 2019, I sat down to play Gears 5’s new “Escape” mode, a three-player…
I am not a glutton for punishment in games. I don’t usually enjoy dying over and over again until some mercurial mix…
Fortnite is arguably the biggest game in the world right now. It certainly feels like it is. Nearly everywhere I…
Playing Stardew Valley with another person is more fun than I expected. The idea of tilling virtual soil with a…
GTA Online received an update this week that added a brand new co-op racing mode, Target Assault. Usually I’m not a…
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As soon as I saw people streaming A Way Out, I knew I’d have a field day looking up their reactions to the game’s…
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A chance meeting and subsequent trip to Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 resulted in two college students forming a…
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From Rebellion, makers of the good sniper game, Strange Brigade is “an exotic safari into danger” for one to four players. It’s a co-op supernatural shooter filled with mythological beasts and high adventure. Look for it on PS4, Xbox One and PC “soon.”
Portal 2’s GLaDOS, the game’s coolly sadistic robot narrator, wanted me to hate my co-op partner. In corporate lingo…