PC

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’s Online Co-op Requires Synchronicity, Stealth, And Shooting People In The Head

Ubisoft IP director Adrian Lacy makes the coordination, concentration, and carnage of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier‘s ‘Valiant Hammer’ online cooperative campaign mission seem so natural in his narration of this walkthrough video that you almost forget it’s a group of people that know the game inside-and-out are playing.


October 26, 2011
PC

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Co-Op Mode Coming With The Greenskins

As promised, four-player online co-op is here for the PlayStation 3 and PC versions of Warhammer: 40.000: Space Marine, with the Xbox 360 version following soon after. And so the enemy of my enemy becomes my friend.


October 14, 2011
News

Watch Shank 2′s Co-Op Deliver Twice The Stab-Em-Up Action

Released through the EA Partners program last year, Klei Entertainment’s gorgeously gory sidescroller won legions of fans with its retro presentation and fluid animation. The one thing everybody wanted was co-operative play featuring the bandaged badass and his cohort Falcone. Your pleas were heard and the video above shows off how that’s going to look.


August 17, 2011
PC

Want To See Some Battlefield 3 Co-Op? 3, 2, 1, Shoot!

Making its debut at Gamescom 2011 in Germany, Battlefield 3‘s co-op mode is every bit as intense as singleplayer, with 100 per cent more synchronised shouting.


August 11, 2011
PlayStation

Inversion’s Co-Op Trailer Shows That If You Plan To Screw With Gravity, You’d Better Bring A Friend.

Third-person shooter Inversion invites a lot of comparison to Gears of War, another third-person shooter that you may have played.


August 10, 2011
PlayStation

Dead Island Gets The Gang Together To Be Torn Apart

“We hang together, or we f**ked.” Truer words have never been spoken, in or out of a co-op trailer for Dead Island.


July 29, 2011
PC

Firefall Is Making Bug-Killing Look Like A Blast

Firefall is an upcoming co-op shooter for the PC, made by Red 5 Studios, which is helmed by the guy who was team lead on World of Warcraft. So it should know what it’s doing when it comes to online gaming.

It certainly looks like it does, as this gameplay trailer is a blast. If you’ve ever liked Starship Troopers and/or Tribes, there should be something to like in all this.

It should be out sometime towards the end of the year.


July 1, 2011
Nintendo

The Best Way To Play Co-Op In Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D

So we here at Kotaku (and by “we” I mean “the interns”) were going to briefly demo Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D‘s co-op gameplay for you-but being the forward-thinking young professionals that we are, we thought, why not kick it up a notch?


June 23, 2011
In Real Life

Duke Nukem Forever Seems More Fun With A Friend

I played Duke Nukem Forever by myself. Couldn’t stand it. Maybe I should have had some beers and played it with a friend instead. Seems like a lot more fun!


June 4, 2011
News

Kotaku And Spike/GameTrailers Team Up At E3

I’m excited to announce that starting Noon ET, 9AM PT Monday, Kotaku editors will appear during Spike and GameTrailers‘s 20-plus hours of live coverage of E3 2011. Stephen Totilo, Brian Crecente, Michael McWhertor, and Joel Johnson will all be appearing live on Spike and GameTrailers.com to provide expert analysis and share breaking news with Geoff Keighley between all the major press conferences.