Defiance launches today. A quick look at the Twitters tells me the servers are having issues, which is something to be expected from a new MMO --especially a new MMO which is launching simultaneously across the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. I think I may wait until tomorrow to try to log on. For now I'll just cozy up with the Defiance launch trailer before I venture forth to explore the Bay Area Frontier. It's got explosions, guns, aliens, and alien cleavage. What else could you want?  

Legions of Minecraft fans will be rejoicing this week, as the new update for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is now set in stone. Update number 9, which will add the Enderdragon (among other things), has officially passed Microsoft certification testing and will be released this week on Friday, April 5th. We have been covering the changes that were to come with this update in previous weeks. The biggest change will be the addition of the souped-up Enderdragon. Besides this larger than life addition, a good number of minor changes will also come to the wonderful world of Minecraft. For a full list of changes, take a look below:

It’s hard to believe that nearly two years ago, I wrote the first exclusive preview of Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons for Co-Optimus. A 3D remake of the classic Double Dragon II arcade game, it seemed destined to revive the historic beat-em-up franchise after years of inactivity. Korean game developer Gravity Co, Ltd. and publisher Barunson Creative Co Ltd. understood the series’ importance in the gaming landscape and found the second game’s story most exciting, hence their decision to remake it for modern audiences.

Guns of Icarus has had an interesting life. What started as a web-based airship combat game eventually turned into the more full-featured Steam release Guns of Icarus Online. The co-op play for the series has always been unusual, allowing teams of players to work together to battle rival airships in some intense rounds of mid-air combat. Even still, the game was a bit thin under the surface, offering a lot of combat with very little else.

In a world where hockey masks don the faces of the most feared mercenaries. No wait. In a world where fist bumps, explosions, and doors are all better with two people - Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel is the series 3rd game with an all new campaign, all new characters, and an all new setup. We dive in with our full co-op review.

I reminisced about Hanna-Barbera cartoons the other day, looking back on all the kooky stuff they put forth over the years. One that really stood out from the rest was this show called “Wacky Races”, where a dozen unique car racers used various slapstick devices to run each other off the road and win the race. Flash forward to today and I recently was notified of a new co-op racing game called “Pressure” that captured that same sort of wackiness the show brought. German-based, independent studio, Chasing Carrots, aimed to make Pressure a unique, fun 2-player experience due to their passion for co-op gaming.

It's April 1st, so information on the internet won't be worth a damn today. You've been warned. But I assure you these games are coming out this week, unless the folks who run Amazon are being a bunch of jerks.

Bungie has always been known for their top notch art direction and the latest pieces of Destiny concept art to come out of last week's Game Developer's Conference continue to reinforce that. There's seven new pieces of art that are worthy of any computer desktop or even, hanging on your living room wall. There's also a handful of pieces looking at the characters and their clothing.

When former developers of Assassin's Creed, Army of Two and Dead Space get together to make a game, what sort of experience might you expect? Probably not a co-op puzzle game where you play as tiny little creatures being subjected to the experiments of a mad scientist. That's exactly what the upcoming Tiny Brains will be, however, and even if it wasn't the first thing on your mind, it still looks like an interesting release.

Magicka for mobile tablets might not sound like a logical next step for the franchise, but as soon as you try Paradox Interactive's Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet, you'll be all like "NICE". Recently released for iPad and Android tablets, the touch screen incarnation of Magicka features all the same spell creation, goblin frying, shield making, meteor summoning elements from the PC release reworked to feel a bit like Castle Crashers. It even preserves online co-op play, allowing up to four players to head out and "accidentally" burn each other to death in the heat of battle.

For me, one of the gems of PAX East 2013 was a game located in a tiny booth on the edge of the expo floor. Entitled Eon Altar, developer Flying Helmet Games ambitiously combines a tabletop RPG with a video game for a unique cooperative experience.

Join Luigi for another night in the haunted house. Explore a terror-filled valley filled with ghosts in order to track down the shattered pieces of the Dark Moon. Search every nook and cranny of five different levels in order to find hidden treasure and Boos. Make use of your Poltergust 5000 and the new "Dark-Light" to capture a wide variety of adorable ghosts. Team up with up to three other players and tackle the Scarescraper for even more ghostbusting action.