“Christmas time, mistletoe and wine,” sang Cliff Richard. I’ll decline the invitation to his Crimbo cocktail party if that’s his idea of a good tipple. Heck, I’d sooner eat something prepared in Overcooked [official site]. The chaotic cooperative chef ’em up has launched a festive update with new wintery levels, new festive dishes, and all sorts of new hats and gadgets. Delia Smith may recommend cooking a turkey at gas mark 7 but heck, Overcooked will now let you flamethrower it. … [visit site to read more]

Overcooked [official site] deposited me into a frantic multiplayer kitchen desperately churning out tomato soup and attempting (unsuccessfully) to keep anything from catching fire while I was at Rezzed earlier in the year. By contrast, I watched perfect strangers strategise burgers BURGERS! perfectly on a galleon which rearranged the cooking surfaces every few seconds. The daft joy and urge to chat with teammates is firmly rooted in its local co-op play. You’re yelling for clean plates, wondering where that onion has gone or zipping across the space to prevent a conflagration.

But how did the developers encourage that positive co-op experience? Why is the “onion moment” so important? And what’s the climate like out there for local co-op PC gaming? We asked Phil Duncan, co-founder of Overcooked studio, Ghost Town Games.

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Team 17 have upped their publishing game in recent years, grabbing as many indie cubs from the wild as possible and nursing them to adulthood. Overcooked [official site] by Ghost Town Games is one of those little nibblers. It’s a co-op cooking game for up to 4 players. You have to work together to prepare food for hungry customers before they get miffed and leave your restaurant unsatisfied. It’s coming out on August 3, the creators have announced. Come check out the release trailer and see what happens when too many cooks (too many cooks>) spoil the broth.

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Lurking in the RPS Tunnel Of Awesome (did we officially call it that?) at Rezzed was Overcooked [official site] a co-op cooking game which has you work with other player-chefs to create delicious dishes in a chaotic kitchen.

I sort of wanted to get all of the RPS team in attendance Adam, Jim, John and me to play a round but given how competitive I get in Cook, Serve Delicious which I play ALONE maybe my employment would have been at risk.

Instead, I played with three strangers and then lurked like a cookery creeper to watch others.

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