Stop me if you've heard this one before.  It's the middle of the night, and the streets are deserted.  You're trying to get to your destination, but suddenly, screams fill the air adn the ground shakes beneath you.  A horde of creepy figures is headed your way, and though you run as fast as you can, you are overwhelmed.  The crowd tramples over you, and you black out.  Nope, it's not Left 4 Dead 2, it's just Black Friday once again!

Thanks to our frugal friends over at Cheap Ass Gamer, we've got a list of the best deals for co-op titles on the day after Thanksgiving sales this year.  Some excellent deals on Left 4 Dead 2 and other recent releases just might be worth braving the zombie hordes for!  Check out the co-op titles here, or the full list at the link below, and happy hunting!

Left 4 who?  Resident 5 what?  Pa-shaw!  I bring you the latest screens of the first DLC of Borderlands, titled the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned.  Fear the giant Frankenstein like creatures, look in horror as hordes of undead midgets attempt to eat your brains.  

Then shoot them in the face with a shotgun that does electrical damage and has a scope.

As we reported last week, Sony is bringing adhocParty, a service that enables formerly local only co-op and multiplayer PSP game to branch out a bit, to the U.S. soon.  In this case, "soon" meant "next week" as the adhocParty service is now available in the Playstation Store for download.  To go with the launch of this service, the good folks at the Sony Playstation Blog have provided a brief walkthrough video of how to get this service up and running so you can enjoy your previously adhoc only PSP co-op titles over the Internet... or can you?  Check out the video after the break to see if you caught the same caveat we did.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.

The stories for this week:

- BioShock 2 Special Edition Announced
- "Return to Ostagar" DLC Coming to Dragon Age: Origins This Holiday
- Halo: Reach Premiering on Spike's Video Game Awards on December 12th
- Modern Warfare 2 Earns $550 Million in First Five Days
- Happy Thanksgiving to US Readers and Black Friday Deals

A few years ago, a neighbor offered my wife a Super Nintendo with five games, all for $25, before it went into their garage sale. My wife nabbed it, and I was a happy classic gamer that entire day. One of the games in that lot, Donkey Kong Country, was easily worth that price by itself.

We previously reported a few bugs with the PSN version of Trine. It was brought to our attention that our source had a few issues with the game that weren't directly related, and it was recommended we take on the challenge of playing Trine ourselves to see how it works. We've now played Trine in our very own co-op brand of reviewing, and are ready to set the record straight.

At times like these we all wish for an extra 12 hours in the day.  Too many games to play, too many responsibilities to fulfill.

Nick "bapenguin" Puleo - "I have a lot I'd like to play, lets see what I accomplish.  Left 4 Dead 2, Dragon Age Origins, Modern Warfare 2, and Resident Evil 5 PC are all on my radar!"

Marc "DjinniMan" Allie - "I'm planning to spend lots of time in Left 4 Dead 2.  Other than that, more Half Minute Hero!."

Mike "pheriannath" Katsufrakis - "I have a lot to play as well, but almost no time to do it in! Since I've got to work over the weekend, time will be scarce, but I'll spend as much time as I can in Left 4 Dead 2 so I can have my review ready for everyone to enjoy."

Jim "txshurricane" McLaughlin - "What little game time I have will be spent on Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and Modern Warfare 2."

Katrina "ShadokatRegn" Pawlowski - "I'll be pushing to make time to play Prince of Persia and Borderlands - even if that means forgoing sleep for the weekend."

Jason "OrigamiPanther" Love - "My weekend will likely see me splitting my time between slaying darkspawn in Dragon Age: Origins, and hitting zombies with frying pans (*ptong!*) in Left 4 Dead 2."

Loren "AgtFox" Halek - "Maybe play some New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but probably just take some time away after getting through and reviewing three games in under a week with over 40 hours of gameplay combined."

 We finally have a release date for Serious Sam HD, or at least, a release date for the PC version.  Expect to kick names and take ass on November 24th with up to 15 of your friends in co-op.  This was announced in an exclusive trailer posted on Eurogamer's website.

You can read our short hands on preview with the game from PAX 09.  We came away impressed, and are itching to dive into the chaos with one of the largest and most insane co-op gatherings I've ever witnessed.  There's going to be a lot of exploding harpies.

You can preorder the game right now on Steam for only $18.  There's still no word on whether or not the XBLA version, which contains four player co-op, would be released the following day on November 25th.  

Keep the pedal to the floor on those party chat complaints in Modern Warfare 2!  According to Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, they hear you loud and clear on the complaints from the community.  Whether hearing is the same as acting, well that's yet to be seen, but for those of you annoyed by the lack of party chat options in certain multiplayer play lists on the Xbox 360 - scream to the heavens:  

"For the love of Soap MacTavish give us our party chat!"

The lack of party chat was done in part to prevent cheaters in different multiplayer game types.  Basically these punks would jump onto the opposing team calling out their teammates positions to their friends on the other team in party chat.  For most of us, we're unaffected by this decision because we're too busy playing Spec-Ops in co-op!

Resident Evil 5 was an early co-op hit this year.  As you'd expect for a title so popular, quite a bit of extra content is headed your way soon.  The PS3-exclusive "Alternative Edition" is coming soon, and will include all the DLC listed below, plus compatibility with Sony's forthcoming motion controlling doohickey.  (Pretty sure that won't be the final name.)  Xbox 360 owners and those who already own RE5 for PS3 can also download this content.