Awesome Games

If you can forgive the atrocious voice acting, this supposedly leaked trailer for The Witcher 2 reveals day/night cycles, bloodier finishing moves and use of the Havok physics engine.

This Competitive Multiplayer trailer for Operation Flashpoint 2 shows off Command, Infiltrate, Attack and Defend gameplay–in other words, blowing up stuff, and blowing it up good.

This Weazel News expose for The Ballad of Gay Tony smells like The Onion: who’s behind a wave of terrorism hitting Liberty City? Who cares, they’ve got stock footage of caves!

IBM’s Deep Blue may be a chess champ, but Queens University’s Deep Green is a hustler-in-training; the team is also working on human-friendly augmented reality pool.

Cracked.com explores the consequences of oversized weapons and inventories: If Video Games Were Realistic introduces real-world problems to our virtual worlds. Thanks, Dean!

If you thought fighting demons was bad, check out Eddie’s pre-Brutal Legend life: the intro shows him serving as the world’s best roadie for the world’s worst metal band, Kabbage Boy.

No word on whether the commentary system’s been tweaked, but this gameplay trailer for NBA 2K10 gets one thing right: the players each have their own swagger, aka Signature Plays.

DJ Hero marks Daft Punk’s first participation in a video game, and we couldn’t be more excited: it’ll include 11 exclusive mixes with artists including Young MC, Queen, and Gary Numan.

This Terra Incognita developer trailer for Halo 3: ODST focuses on its creation; initially conceived as short campaign, it morphed into a full game but was still finished in under a year.

We’ve featured foosball tables before, but you can put your feet up on this one: the Foosball Coffee Table not only entertains but looks good with solid wood and stainless steel.

It doesn’t include Mad Catz’ sweet controllers, but Modern Warfare 2-themed Xbox 360 bundle is a sweet deal with a 250 GB HDD, 2 wireless controllers, COD: MW2 and a custom case.

They say you should bring a gun to a knife fight, but Contra Duck Hunt really puts the O in overkill; thanks to a bit of creative napalming, the laughing dog is conspicuously absent.

Just Cause 2’s devs show off its vertical gameplay features above; with helicopters, parachutes and tall buildings aplenty, the game also doubles as a fun BASE jumping sim.

Available today, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 unloads the awesome in this Gameplay Montage; regardless of which side you pick in the superhero civil war, this game looks like a winner.

This Characters Trailer for Borderlands introduces us to the Hunter, Siren, Soldier and Brick classes, but also further sells us on the games’ gratuitous (yet offbeat) take on cellshading.

Available 10/14/09, SF20: The Art of Street Fighter is a 320 page uber-tome packed with 1,500 illustrations that span the SF universe, including sketches, concepts and promo art.

The jury’s still out on Lucidity, but it comes with an impressive pedigree: created by LucasArts, this gameplay trailer looks like a quaint mix of Lemmings and Little Red Riding Hood.

This Greed trailer for Dante’s Inferno sheds light on the tortured protagonist, Dante, who is arguably as twisted a character as the hellish environments he wages holy war upon.

We can’t help shedding nostalgic tears and quarters for this I Got Next t-shirt; alongside “Finish Him!” and “Push to Reject”, it defines an entire generation of coin-op arcade gamers.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2’s final trailer pulls no punches; it starts with a wicked comic book-style intro, but the meat of the video is copious amounts of gameplay that borders on gratuitous.

Beyond its storylines and gameplay, Final Fantasy is also known for its fantastic music; the video above is a sampling of songs played at the Square-Enix Premiere Party in Tokyo.

No, you’re not hallucinating spread guns and powerup blimps: Contra Rebirth sports 16-bit graphics and is the 12th game to bear the Contra name; it’s now available on WiiWare.

We’ve been blown away by The Secret Worlds’ gripping cinematic trailers, but nothing beats seeing actual gameplay: the first screenshots are now out and are gloriously hi-res.