Gear Gaming Console Gaming Walmart's video game clearance sale drops popular titles for Switch, PS5, and Xbox by up to 50% Grab a copy of Stellar Blade, Lego Star Wars, the latest Assassin's Creed, or pretty much any game you've been waiting to buy for the lowest prices of the year. Never run out of stuff to play. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Walmart is running a big video game sale right now with discounts on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and accessories. There are nearly 100 deals live at the moment, with some of the best cuts landing on recent big-name releases -- is down to $37 (from $70), is $24.84 (down from $60), and is just $29.

Online multiplayer has become part and parcel with many video games these days, but finding something you can play on the couch with a loved one has gotten tougher. If you're looking for some cooperative fun, though, we can help. Below are 25 of the best couch co-op games we've played across the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Note that we're focusing on genuine co-op experiences, not games that have local multiplayer but aren't truly cooperative in practice. Even still, our list encompasses everything from platformers and puzzlers to RPGs and arcade shooters. You know the broad strokes of any Super Mario game by now. Within the series, though, 3D World stands out for using a largely fixed camera and levels that are more semi-3D than the totally open spaces of games like Super Mario Odyssey or Super Mario Galaxy.

That Lego's foray into the metaverse isn't with TT Games, the development studio behind the Lego video games, is notable. The decision could be related to workplace issues brought to light in a Polygon report from January. In it, current and former employees of the studio described a toxic work environment where management's ambitious plans for its latest game, "The Skywalker Saga," came at the cost of 80- to 100-hour workweeks. One issue that reportedly came to a head during development was the use of Epic's Unreal Engine. According to Polygon, employees warned management that continuing to use the studio's proprietary game engine, NTT, for "The Skywalker Saga" could cause problems in an already strained development timeline.

Every major location in Star War has a playable open world that you can explore along your journey, from the iconic Mos Eisley spaceport to the capital planet Coruscant. But I was surprised to see some locales that are basically footnotes in the cinematic series received the same open-world treatment. The small outpost Poe Dameron visits with BB-8 on Jakku at the beginning of "The Force Awakens" and Maz's castle on Takonda are both -- spoiler alert -- blown to pieces by the First Order almost as soon as the audience is introduced to them. You spend so little time in either location during the movie, I didn't really feel the urge to explore the blocky burning ruins in "The Skywalker Saga" -- especially because the only reason to do so is to find every collectible the game has buried there.

Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian's gaming newsletter. If you'd like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below – and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email. It is now becoming a running joke that massive games-industry news keeps dropping in the hours after this newsletter gets sent out on a Tuesday. A few months back it was Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard; then the New York Times bought Wordle. Last week it was Sony's rumoured revamp of the PlayStation Plus subscription service, and then the not entirely unexpected news that E3 – the annual games industry showcase in LA – has been completely cancelled, having previously shifted to a digital-only event.

Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. It's an exciting time to be a Star Wars fan. New episodes of The Clone Wars are hitting Disney each week, The Rise of Skywalker arrives on digital March 17, and Lucasfilm just announced an entirely new era of Star Wars--The High Republic--that will explore the universe hundreds of years before the Skywalker saga takes place. There have never been more ways to get into Star Wars--an ever-expanding universe of mythic fantasy and rich spectacle. If you're feeling especially ambitious, check out the timeline of "canon" media on Wookieepedia for a fairly comprehensive overview of everything Star Wars has to offer: comic books, novels, video games.