Software & Websites

With the help of some of the same folks who created Warcraft III’s DotA, League of Legends is a stand alone game focused around hero units that fight with other players in tournaments.

Little Big Planet may be annoyingly cute, but this amazing calculator shows off its engineering potential: it’s made with 610 switches, 500 wires and 430 pistons. Thanks, Devand!

No day is complete without a dose of explosions; this trailer for Call of Duty: World at War is filled with bombs, tanks and guns; it really should have been scored to Beethoven’s Fifth.

SHIFT is somewhat like a two dimensional, spatial version of Braid; we didn’t get the whole black and white scheme until we hit our shift key. Note: also try out Shift 2. Thanks, Darnell!

World Golf Tour is a beautifully rendered golfing sim, all the more amazing that it’s free and playable online. Based on the Bali Hai course in Vegas, it uses Google Earth-like tech.

Red Alert 3 has no nukes due to a glitch in the time continuum, but this superweapons trailer makes up for it with all sorts of explosive goodness; thank god they kept the iron curtain.

Just in case you haven’t picked up your copy of NBA 2K9 (which arrives today), this launch trailer (go Baron!) should seal the deal: those graphics looks damn near realistic.

Despite an often maddening interface, City Creator gets addictive; create pixel cities from one of three tile sets, and save or send them as an e-card. Above: view our misguided creations.

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is an action game that parodies past and present games a la Duke Nukem. We love his so-called fan page as well as the VH1-style trailer above.

MGS fans will love Flash Gear Solid VR Trainer; it not only includes the much-beloved cardboard box but it can be played both top-down and from a first person view. Thanks, Ray!

Coming out two weeks before the film on 11/4, the Quantum of Solace game is looking downright fantastic, with solid, visceral takedowns and Daniel Craig’s voice to add realism.

With respect to our Japanese friends, Commando 2 is still a very fun, side-scrolling shooter. Packed with weapons and bosses, it’s set in World War II China during the occupation.

Although light on action, this latest cinematic trailer for Halo Wars explores a bit of the backstory to the game; it’s set at Harvest, approximately 20 years before Halo: Combat Evolved.

It may be nearly two years old, but Neverwinter Nights 2 still continues to see action on our PC. Above is a trailer for its expansion pack Storm of Zehir; it’ll be available Nov. 18.

Spidey is one of our favorite heroes which is why Spiderman: Web of Shadows is near the top of our gaming list; the trailer above has us excited to get our web slingin’ groove on.

For Wii only, The Conduit has a trailer up highlighting the various graphics tricks used; bump mapping isn’t new by a long shot, but it is cool to see everything broken down.

Fast and furious, Ether War is an amped-up Asteroids with enemies and allies. It’s relatively short but anytime your trigger finger starts aching you know it’s a good game.

January ’09 can’t come soon enough: this trailer for Retro Game Challenge demos a gaggle of 80s-ish games; although subtly renamed by we know R.C. Pro Am when we see it!

An epic soundtrack and a color commentator? Nope, it’s not the latest football flick: this is Elbow Wars, an interactive two-player movie theater slugfest with no-holds (or elbows) barred.