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While drop-in co-op is plenty of fun on its own--check out some of our best couch co-op games for plenty of recommendations on that front--this list focuses more on games where communication and collaboration are an intrinsic part of the experience. Quests in these games progress because you're both playing together, rather than despite it. These are games that feel more intimate than competitive multiplayer and more dynamic than traditional couch co-op--sitting in that sweet spot in the middle where both players are equally important.

The best co-op horror games know when to scare you senseless and when to let you experience triumph as a team over whatever spooky peril is waiting around each corner. Shadows that move when they shouldn't, distant footsteps drawing ever closer, and the dread of confronting something unknown--it's all better with company. Instead of facing your fears alone, you're able (although, sometimes forced) to rely on others: sharing resources, comparing clues, calling out directions, and of course screaming over each other when everything goes wrong.

Like Fanatical's other build your own bundle promotions, you can pick as many games from the list as you'd like, and the more games you buy, the more you save. To start, you can pick up to four games for $3.33 each. At five or more games, you'll pay $3 per item. Grab 10 or more games, and you'll pay just $2.90 per game.

Pretty much every game has RPG elements these days, so if you squint hard enough, you can make the case for a lot of games being RPGs, even if they don't follow the same formulas and structures the genre historically has. Because the definition of what makes an RPG has gotten looser over the years, any list of the best ones in any given year is pretty much guaranteed to have a ton of variety, including everything from action-packed open-world sprawls to strategic retro throwbacks.

Circana released its monthly sales report for November today, shining a light on how the North American video game business is performing. Hardware sales had a particularly difficult month, with sales falling 27%, from $949 million in November 2024 to $695 million in November 2025. November 2025 represented the lowest hardware spending total for a November month since November 2005 ($455 million). A total of 1.6 million game hardware units were sold in North America for November 2025, and that's the lowest since November 1995 (1.4 million units).

It's not an easy life for Sanctuary's citizens in Diablo 4, but players can make things a little brighter in the upcoming holiday event Goblin Greedings. Starting on December 18, players will be to put presents under their tree--so to speak--by clobbering creatures for loot and bringing a little hope back to Estuar. To claim their prizes, players will have to face hordes of Treasure Goblins and earn their place on the March of the Goblins reputation board.

Fresh off its Game of the Year win, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a new, free update that adds additional levels, upgrades, and boss fights to . If it's been a while since you checked in with Verso, Maelle, and the rest of the expedition, maybe, I dunno, go practice your parrying before you head into the new content, because even the sickos who were already dodging the game's most elaborate onslaughts are having trouble with these challenging fights.

"It's progressing really well," Howard told the magazine. "The majority of the studio's on VI, but I'll say this: We always overlap. So, we're very used to overlapping development. And we have long pre-productions on things so that we feel good about them. And it's a process. We all wish it went a little bit faster - or a lot faster - but it's a process that we want to get right."

"KICK's a live streaming platform where creators kick it with their communities. (Yeah, we said the thing...). Our creators march to the beat of their own drum, as do we, disrupting our opps with a 95-5 subscription split, our creator incentive program, and the freedom to multistream. That's why the likes of xQc, Asmongold, and MaxHolloway all pick KICK."

"At this stage, James felt his work on the game was complete and that the polishing and tuning were in great hands with the team," Hasbro VP of Communications, Abby Hodes, told Bloomberg in a statement. She added that Ohlen asked to "shift his creative focus" and would remain a consultant fo the company on tabletop gaming.

What I think is kind of baked into doing an origin story for a character like James Bond, is that everyone knows the character and who he's going to become,

The dragon/psychic monster has been a favorite of mine for over 20 years, and she's been a mainstay of my team in every game she's featured in. Latias is flying around the Hyperspace Lumiose City featured in Mega Dimension , but I still haven't caught her yet. Why? Mega Dimension 's maddening grind makes catching her and several other Legendary monsters a game of chance, harkening back to some of the more frustrating capture mechanics of 's past that the series has mostly gotten away from.

I never felt done with my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Despite playing every day for two years, and racking up 1,700 hours of playtime, I somehow never finished decorating. I had plenty of ideas for my island, sure, but actually implementing them was another story: The decorating and terraforming systems that helped make New Horizons a huge success are also slow, manual, and cumbersome, and my patience for decorating and redecorating had finally worn thin.

Invincible VS launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on April 30, 2026, and preorders are now live. These include multiple physical PS5 and Xbox Series X versions, including a $50 standard edition available at multiple online retailers. Amazon and GameStop also have exclusive variants of the standard edition with their own unique cover art, but otherwise feature all the same content as the standard edition.

All of them. All the parts? Yeah. It's hard to separate parts. We all just want it to be a good game. My official role is consultant, so anytime they show me anything, I'll give them my honest opinion and try to improve it as much as I can. I'm just dabbling in all of it. Mostly, obviously, I did most of the writing.

Still looking for the right gaming-oriented gift this holiday season? While we're start off the final weeks of December, some retailers are reinitiating Black Friday-level discounts to aid with your holiday shopping. One of the standout deals at Amazon is for the PlayStation VR2, which is now priced at just $299, down from its usual $400. This discount of $101 makes it an excellent holiday gift option.

It's funny that you like Sir Lora. I hate him. If there is one thing I regret about Original Sin 2, it's bringing Sir Lora into the game.

Even if you've played a half-dozen Trails games, you might not know who Father Kevin Graham is, but boy, you're abut to. Essentially, the James Bond of Trails' Septian Church, Kevin is one of the most delightful and complex characters the series has ever seen - and after playing a few hours of Trails Beyond the Horizon, Falcom hasn't missed a beat.