Awesome Games

Say farewell to the previous generation of video game consoles with this upbeat track. YouTuber liltommyj made it using the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware as instruments, along with sounds from their user interface.

Glitches can be annoying or hilarious. But on occasion, a glitch reaches such epic proportions that it’s better than some of the game’s scripted moments. This Assassin’s Creed IV glitch is one such moment of unintended brilliance.

Possibly the killer app PS Vita has been looking for. Use the touchscreen, rear touchpad and camera to interact directly with the lively and colorful papercraft world of Tearaway. Made by Media Molecule, the guys behind LittleBigPlanet.

Logitech’s PowerShell controller has a d-pad, four face buttons and two shoulder buttons. It can also charge your device with its 1500mAh battery. It works with the iPhone 5/5S and 5th gen. iPod Touch. List of compatible games here.

Another amazing deck from Card Experiment, these playing cards feature imagery inspired by a utopian world that descents into dystopia. The neo-futurist styling of Tarin Yuangtrakul’s cards, box design, and backstory remind us of Bioshock.

A teaser for Left Behind, a new single player campaign for the critically-acclaimed PS3 adventure game The Last of Us. It will be about heroine Ellie and Riley, her best friend from military school. Coming in 2014.

Fans of the Portal games will love this music video – not just for its beats, but for its clever animation and addition of a gameplay mechanic we could have used on at least a few occasions – a penguin with a pick axe – and an AK-47.

If you liked Evoland or Retro Game Challenge, check out RetroWorld. It’s a game where you play – wait for it – a gamer. You’ll have to play with four generations of video games (or at least their bootlegs) to restore peace.

A look at an optional mission from Ground Zeroes, the standalone prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain. The video shows off Big Boss’ new (old?) tricks and tech, as well as the more open stages of MGS V.

A look at the features available in the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of NBA 2K14. Enjoy updates about actual events in the league, more in-depth Career and General Manager modes and of course the sweet new graphics.

Return to the lands from the SNES classic A Link to the Past in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Use Link’s ability to turn into a painting and save both Hyrule and its parallel kingdom Lorule from an evil wizard.

The fifth expansion of the long-running World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor brings back characters from the original Warcraft trilogy. It also features new character models, maps, quests, and raises the level cap to 100.

If The Hunger Games were The Hunger Video Games, we hope it would look and play like this. We only wish that it had a train level with a drunk Woody Harrelson and a TV studio with Stanley Tucci in a powdered wig.

YouTuber Pelaajaboard captured 30 minutes of pre-alpha gameplay of Dragon Age: Inquisition, which seems to put an emphasis on exploration and player choice. It will be released for the PC, PS3/4 and Xbox 360/One in 2014.

The Kickstarter-funded tactical RPG Banner Saga finally has a release date: 1/14/14. The game features beautiful hand-drawn animation of combat sequences and tense battles. Play the free multiplayer mode on Steam now.

Space Engineers is a sandbox game where you build and maintain structures in space. Think Minecraft, except instead of axes and houses you’ll make spaceships and space stations. Pre-order to play the alpha right now. More here.

The Humble Bundle has opened its own store. Each day the Humble Store will have a different set of heavily discounted games. As usual, many of the games are cross-platform, DRM-free or both. Plus 10% of its proceeds go to charity.

A version of the classic board game in which your goal is to fortify properties to protect yourself from the horde – given the fact that there is no real estate market during the zombie apocalypse. Go directly to jail. It’s your home afterall.

Better late than never. Heroes of the Storm is Blizzard’s take on the MOBA genre. It features characters from its games – Diablo, Kerrigan, Arthas etc. – and attempts to streamline the team-based game. Gameplay here.

Microsoft finally reveals why the Kinect has to be bundled with the Xbox One. This demo shows off the next-gen duo’s impressive multitasking and accurate voice command feature, capable of mapping your voice to your own Xbox profile.

We’ll be playing the actual game in less than a week, but for now let this live-action trailer for Killzone: Shadow Fall set the stage for the epic battles that await PS4 players on 11/15. Download high-bitrate HD game footage here.

The trailer for the international release of Square Enix’ hit Nintendo 3DS RPG Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. It’s a classic Final Fantasy game in all but name (and what a name it has), from its art to its combat. Hits Europe on 12/13; US in 2014.

The slick and shiny final trailer for one of the Xbox One launch games Forza Motorsport 5. Sadly the gameplay footage’s been compressed to hell, but you can imagine how good that looks in person. The last bit was quite the tease.