Next year, Aliens Colonial: Marines will finally see the light of day on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.  The Gearbox developed co-op game set in the famous universe created by the Alien franchise has been on our radar since - well since Co-Optimus was in it's infancy back in 2008.  The game has had a long ride to where it is today, so hopefully it'll be worth it.

The Playstation Move’s similarity to the Wiimote makes it easy to port Wii games to the Playstation 3. We’ve already seen House of the Dead: Overkill and Dead Space Extraction make the trip (leaving the poor Xbox 360 behind). Now two more rail shooters, Capcom’s Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles are coming to PS3 with Move support.

When reviewing F1 2011, Co-Optimus pointed out that the game could be decent, but there were numerous co-op breaking bugs; the AI resetting to Amateur, tyres not wearing down and people being dropped positions at the end of the race.  Details of a new patch have just been released; can you guess which issues Codemasters are planning to fix?

Space Marine's free co-op mode, Exterminatus, has been live for all of one week (one day, for 360 owners), and THQ has just announced plans for additional co-op content.  The new DLC will include an Exterminatus campaign titled "Chaos Unleashed."  It will put players in the mighty boots of the Chaos Marines.  You'll face Orks and the Imperial Guard as the Space Marines' evil, and therefore cooler, counterparts.  You just know that all of the Chaos Marines are wearing goatees under their helmets and calling each other "Bro."

There are a lot of gaming masochists out there.  It seems that Dark Souls has shipped 1.5 million copies worldwide, which equals a whole Havel-load of  player deaths.  Multiplayer enthusiasts, be they versus or co-op players, will be happy to hear that the patch I mentioned last week is scheduled to go live on the Japanese version of Dark Souls today.  We can expect the patch to make its way to other regions, as well as the Xbox 360 version of the game, in the near future.

Lethal ketchup and mustard!  Do I need to say anything more?  The Dead Rising franchise is no stranger to bizarre costumes and powers, but this new downloadable outfit  for Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is delightfully ordinary.  The Chef Skill pack let's fat Frank West dress up like your standard backyard BBQer.  As usual, the new gear will grant Frank new abilities.  He can kill a zombie with condiments, slice and dice the undead with new knife skills, or melt a face off with a red hot frying pan.  Check out the video.  Mmm.  Smells like bacon.  The Chef skill pack will run you $2 bucks, or 160 MSP.

Good Co-Op, Bad Co-Op - a tale of two friends who love playing games together.  The man who gives the best upsidedown hugs, Sunflower4000 and the love wizard Locke have put their differences aside and teamed up cooperatively in a battle against fate.  

Writing for Co-Optimus has provided some unique co-op gaming opportunities for me. I now routinely play games that I would have waited for sales on or simply never picked up at all. A good example is Renegade Ops, an Xbox Live Arcade game that hadn’t been on my radar until it was chosen for our October Xbox Live Co-Op Night.

I've only casually played the past Ratchet and Clank games, so I'm a person coming into Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One with an almost clean slate. To be honest, even after it was announced to have a four player co-op mode, I never planned on picking up the game. Once the beta was released I was more than pleasantly surprised at what made up the nuts and bolts of this Ratchet and Clank title.

While the 3DS has already gotten a dedicated cooperative Resident Evil game, the next Resident Evil game - despite being single player focused - will also offer a co-op mode.  Resident Evil: Revelations will have a cooperative mode for two players called Raid.  On the surface it seems very similar to the co-op found in the Mercenaries mode in previous RE titles, though there's a few unique twists.

I love me some T-Hunt.  This is the Rainbow Six game mode that allows 4 players to co-op together and take on a map of AI enemies.  The next game in the series has already been announced, but currently remains nameless.  This is about to change as recent domain names suggest Rainbow Six: Patriots will be its moniker. 

Now that Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has a solid release date, we can start wishing for a beta.  Good news!  There's going to be a public beta this winter.  That was easy.  Since the game is due out in a few months, we should expect the beta sometime soon.  RE: ORC Producer Mike Jones says we can expect a beta "early next year."  If this game is as good as I remember, we could be in for a real treat.  Here's a quick synopsis: Four players team up as the members of an evil Umbrella hit team, determined to take out any survivors of the Raccoon City disaster.  Hell yeah.