Keeping up with all of the mini consoles on the market, SEGA has announced their SEGA Genesis Mini will become available on September 19, 2019. The teeny console comes packed with 40 games (and two “bonus” titles), all of the required cables, and 2 controllers so you and a friend can throw back to your playtimes of ol’ with Contra: Hard Corps, Golden Axe, Gunstar Heroes, Toejam and Earl, and so many more.Check out the trailer below for snippets from your favorite SEGA Genesis titles as they fly by, but keep in mind that the console will feature 2 “bonus” titles, Tetris and Darius. This brings the overall number of games to 42. You can check out the full list of games here and preorder the Genesis for the price of $79.99. For context, Sony’s Playstation Classic (original retail $100.00)  featured 20 games with Nintendo’s SNES Classic Edition from 2017 (retail $79.99) including 21 games and the NES Classic ($59.99) including 30 titles, meaning that this is the most games we have seen in a mini console to date.Did a specific game in the trailer grab your attention, or have you had your fill of smaller versions of classic consoles? Let us know in the comments below.

As if Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - a game about killing hordes of evil with medieval weapons - needed any more reason to be awesome, the game has received its first true expansion pack via the Winds of Magic, which adds weapons, maps, enemies, and a game mode. The expansion, which requires the base game to play, is available now on PC for $19.99. However, if you have a friend - and we here at Co-Optimus do enjoy games more with friends - who purchased the content they can invite you into their game even if you haven’t bought it yet.If you have Warhammer: Vermintide 2 on consoles, there will likely be a console version coming, with the developer’s website FAQ stating that “As a team, our focus is always on setting very high standards for quality on all of our games. We want to make sure the console version of Winds of Magic reaches the very same standard as the PC version - for ourselves, but most importantly for our players.” No matter which way you want to play this new content, check out the truly exciting trailer below before suiting up to slay.Will you be playing on PC, or does your monster killing take place on either the Playstation 4 or Xbox One, meaning you have to wait to kill the hordes of baddies? Let us know in the comments below!

No Man’s Sky, the game that has walked the path from criticism to redemption, remains vigilant to shift and shape itself to add features that have been teased or promised since it launched three years ago. The Beyond update arrived on Wednesday and brought with it three main pillars of features: better and true Online multiplayer, Virtual Reality support, and just better everything in the form of the not fully disclosed “2.0”.The long list of items added to the game can be found in the devblog here, but here are the co-op specific improvements:While this may seem short, all of the new systems mentioned in the devblog such as farming and animal raising are co-op enabled as well, meaning whatever travels you are on can now happen with more friends.

There's been a lot of good words floating around out there about the forthcoming "Iceborne" expansion for Monster Hunter: World. The quality-of-live improvements, in particular, have been appreciated, but there's a lot of content there, too. There's also been a few bad words floating around: delayed release on PC. It wasn't clear how long PC players would have to wait, but Capcom cleared that up: January 2020.The silver lining here is that the delay isn't as long as the initial six-month differential between the console and PC releases for the base game. If you're interested in making the switch to the PC version, too, then this four month gap should give you time to play through the campaign and do some post-campaign hunts with a new character so you can be ready when Iceborn does finally arrive.Get ready, hunters! Monster Hunter World: #Iceborne arrives September 6 on PS4 and Xbox One! Steam version coming January 2020. pic.twitter.com/KGMiRcB1AI

Here's a surprise: a Bubble Bobble sequel will arrive soon. Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is coming to the Nintendo Switch and will support four player couch co-op. The original is, apparently, hugely popular in Europe so if you live there, you'll be getting the game first on November 19, 2019. Fans in the U.S. will need to wait until sometime "first quarter 2020" to play.Honestly, the fact that the original title is so popular in Europe was almost equally as surprising, to me, as the fact that a sequel has been in development and is coming out soon. We checked with Sam, our resident European, and he confirmed that yes, he is fond of Bubble Bobble, so we'll just say that he speaks for everyone and that information checks out. There's not a whole lot of other information for the game right now outside of the release dates and that it ups the couch co-op player count from two to four. Enjoy the announce trailer!Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is a Nintendo Switch exclusive.

We've added Bubble Bobble 4 Friends for the Nintendo Switch to our database of Co-Op games!

A few weeks back, Gearbox released a character trailer for Zane, one of the the four new Vault Hunters you'll get to play in the forthcoming Borderlands 3. They've been releasing a new trailer featuring a different character every few days since, and we've gone ahead and collected them all here for your viewing entertainment. Meet Amara, Moze, and FL4K.Not too much to add to what's shown here. Amara is a kind of hometown hero who's "always looking for a fight," Moze is a former Vladof soldier that ditched the corporation and took her mech with her, and FL4K is an "emergent AI" with some good doggos. Provides some background on who you'll be playing, if you haven't picked your character already, but if you're more interested in getting an idea of some of what you'll be playing, there's a Polygon story that just went live about the two villains and what Gearbox is attempting to do this time around. It sounds like it could be interesting, but it's also a very tough tightrope to walk.Borderlands 3 will launch next month on September 13 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

After 11 years, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance series has a new entry with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. It's a game that feels like a modern take on the button-mashing, isometric, action-RPG (aRPG), even if it's not always entirely sure what that "take" should be.

We've added COLLAPSED for the PC to our database of Co-Op games!

We've added Wreckin Ball Adventure for the PC to our database of Co-Op games!