Aegis Wing may be old news for some, but in the age of tight budget co-op games it doesn't get much better than free. We take a look at the Xbox Live Arcade shooter and its four player co-op in our latest review.

Even though the Penny-Arcade Expo is over four months away, it's hard NOT to get excited for it already.  To make things even more difficult, the show organizers have revealed some details on the event set to take place on September 4th through the 6th.

In the coming months, the Battlefield Report will cover a lot of different games and scenarios. This month, however, we fall back to familiar ground.

The latest DLC for 2 player co-op title Saint's Row 2 is now available!  "Ultor Exposed", as it is called, looks to be a worthwhile purchase for fans of co-op!

Paramount has announced a brand new Star Trek game to launch along side the upcoming summer blockbuster Star Trek movie.

Codemasters has just unleashed a brand new video of the two player co-op Damnation.  The steampunk style game features drop-in and drop-out online co-op play through the entire story, which, appears to be a shooter on the surface.  The latest video is all about the moves players and enemies perform in the game bringing things a bit closer to a platformer.

So you have all these awesome plastic instruments laying around, and you've upgraded them all to be wireless.  Tired of that ugly corded microphone for Rock Band or Guitar Hero?  Wouldn't it be cool if those sexy new wireless microphones for Lips worked with the full band games?

Gamers are still waiting for the total co-op GTA experience, until that time though they'll have to contend with truly excellent Single Player titles with only a taste of co-op. Chinatown Wars continues the tradition, only in portable format. We give our take on the co-op modes.

Patapon 2 is just a few weeks away from it's digital release on the PSP.  The PlayStation Blog has the details on the game's four player co-op mode called Bring the Mysterious Egg.

Twitter contests are all the rage these days, all the cool kids are doing it, so we certainly couldn't miss out on our own.  So here's what you do - we need you to send out a tweet asking folks to follow cooptimus on Twitter - and then retweeting for other folks to do the same.  It should look like this:  

Добро пожаловать (Welcome), comrades!  As Jim highlighted in last week’s “This Week in Co-Op,” sometimes a great co-op experience can be found lurking in the catalog of last gen’s titles.  So this past weekend I dusted off my copy of one such co-op title that was overlooked when it was released, The Red Star, and decided to give it a run through.  With my partner in tow, we stepped into an alternate Russia where two soldiers seek to put an end to a corrupt government being lead by a mystical, and evil, sorcerer known as Troika.

Several weeks ago, Bubble Bobble was the topic of our Co-Op Classics column.  We waxed nostalgic at the cute widdle dinosaurs and co-op action.  A remake of Bubble Bobble, called Bubble Bobble Plus!, is available Nintendo's WiiWare service in Japan and Europe.  No North American release has been announced yet, but it seems the bubbles will soon be bobbled on Xbox Live Arcade, as well!