The first few years after a new console generation present some challenges to game developers. When should they stop supporting the previous generation and move on to the current one? Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed launched on Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 5, and Steam at the end of August last year. Earlier this year, Black Forest Games and THQ Nordic announced that the previous generation versions would go forward without multiplayer modes. Nearly a year after the current gen versions, Destroy All Humans 2 - Reprobed Single Player is finally available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Picture this: you're going for a swim in the ocean and a fin pops out of the water. Oh no! But fear not, this isn't a bloodthirsty shark. It's Baby Shark! The good folks at Outright Games (makers of such adaptations as Star Trek: Prodigy Supernova and Paw Patrol World) have sensed blood in the water, and so they're releasing Baby Shark: Sing & Swim Party onto consoles and PC on September 15. It promises lots of family-friendly, musical fun and 4-player local co-op.

Atari's "Recharged" series has produced numerous sequels/remakes of classic Atari games, often adding co-op in the process. The latest such game will be Quantum: Recharged, which promises a new take on the 1982 arcade game. Atari and developer Sneakybox haven't shared any screenshots or footage yet, but we do know that the game will feature 2-player local co-op when it arrives on consoles and PC later this year.

Look, the market is crowded with beekeeping games nowadays. It takes a lot to buikld a buzz when there's so much competition flying around. Still, APICO from Whitethorn Games and TNgineers has continued to grow and pollinate since it debuted last year. After arriving on practically every platform under the sun, APICO has now made it onto Xbox as well. At last, Xbox gamers can keep buzz-y with the game's 4-player online co-op. Oh, and the other versions just got a big update as well.

Sega's classic arcade and Dreamcast game, Cosmic Smash, isn't very well known internationally since it was only released in Japan. That hasn't stopped RapidEyeMovers and developer Wolf & Wood from reviving the property with a sequel, though! C-Smash VRS is now available exclusively on PlayStation VR2. The first-person brick-breaking...

The WarioWare series caught the co-op bug a while back with WarioWare: Get It Together, and now it's coming back for more. WarioWare: Move It! will feature the series' trademark wackiness along with an expanded emphasis on motion controls. To spread the joy of waggling around in hundreds of new micro-games, the game promises 2-player local co-op and 4-player competitive hijinks.

What happens when you combine the survival and crafting elements of Minecraft with the action adventure of Zelda? You get Tinkertown from Headup Games. Following a period of Early Access, the full version of Tinkertown has now launched on Steam. With online co-op supporting "more than four players," this one should make for a grand cooperative adventure.

Few spin-off series have been as successful as Taito’s Puzzle Bobble. The 1994 arcade game successfully used characters from the Bubble Bobble series of platformers in a brand-new puzzle game. It would go on to spawn dozens of sequels and ports (not to mention clones), most recently with Puzzle Bobble 3D for PlayStation and Oculus/Meta Quest....

What a great day for Switch co-op news! During the recent Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced the surprise Switch release of Pikmin 1 and 2, shared a new trailer for Pikmin 4, and announced the Switch version of Vampire Survivors. Perhaps more exciting than those announcements, though, are the announcements of the (single-player) Super Mario RPG re...

Today's Nintendo Direct brought lots of exciting co-op announcements such as the upcoming co-op Switch version of Vampire Survivors and the surprise Switch release of Pikmin 1 and 2. With that surprise release, all three existing Pikmin games are now available on Switch. That's as good an advertisement as any for the upcoming release of Pikmin 4, which is due out on July 21 and features 2-player local co-op.

Nintendo's Pikmin series of real-time strategy games didn't start out as a cooperative series. The first game was single-player only. That changed when Pikmin 2 arrived on the Gamecube way back in the innocent year of 2004, adding a cooperative Challenge Mode. Switch owners can now experience that classic co-op razzle dazzle, because Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2 have just been released as digital downloads. Buy them individually (2 is the one to get) or together for a nice discount, play the heck out of them, and then you'll be ready for the upcoming Pikmin 4.

In our Beyond Co-op review of Vampire Survivors, I asked, "how about a sequel with co-op?" Dreams do come true sometimes, as proven by today's announcement that 4-player local co-op will be added to all versions of the game on August 17! Not only that, but Vampire Survivors will launch on Nintendo Switch on the same day. All versions of the gothic Roguelike will remain affordably priced at $5.